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Old 08-09-2019, 12:26 AM   #41
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My plan is to just buy a new computer with Windows 10 on it, then transfer over the data.
Same here. Just makes things easier. Also, my main PC is five years old, and at this point, newer hardware would make sense. I suppose if I had purchased a PC in the last year or so and wished to continue using it, I might attempt an upgrade to Windows 10.
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Old 08-09-2019, 06:02 AM   #42
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Same here. Just makes things easier. Also, my main PC is five years old, and at this point, newer hardware would make sense. I suppose if I had purchased a PC in the last year or so and wished to continue using it, I might attempt an upgrade to Windows 10.
Five year old hardware should run fine on Windows 10.
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Old 08-12-2019, 10:29 PM   #43
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Is there a safe and effective way to upgrade my computer?Upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10,i'm afraid of messing everything up.
anytime i change to a new OS i buy a new computer. i went from 98 to XP to 7 and am not forced into 10. i've been on 7 for 5-6 years now. very stable just like XP. i have a win10 laptop bought as a preview of win10. using classic shell and have it looking and working much like win 7. plan is to clone the new desktop to the laptop.

biggest gripe is browser. edge stinks, chrome is junk, firefox not much better. IE still works but more and more websites, especially financial sites will not work properly on IE.
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Old 08-13-2019, 02:47 AM   #44
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anytime i change to a new OS i buy a new computer. i went from 98 to XP to 7 and am not forced into 10. i've been on 7 for 5-6 years now. very stable just like XP. i have a win10 laptop bought as a preview of win10. using classic shell and have it looking and working much like win 7. plan is to clone the new desktop to the laptop.
I don't think Win 10 will activate properly if you clone it from the desktop to laptop. It looks at the hardware on the machine to activate. Even if you update enough hardware in a machine it will de-activate and then you would need to call them to re-activate it.

I would try the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool and tell it to upgrade from Win 7. It should upgrade and tell you it is activated using a digital license.
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