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If you have upgraded to Windows 10 with the free upgrade offer on an activated Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 PC, you will be able to do a clean install of Windows 10 on the same PC anytime in the future and activate Windows 10 with your Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 product key.
Using a generic key can be helpful if you wanted to install or upgrade to a specific Windows 10 edition for evaluation or testing on a PC or virtual machine, or just don't have a digital license or your genuine product key currently available and you will activate later when able.
If you already used an MSA to sign in to your activated Windows 10 Home or Pro PC, your MSA will be automatically linked. You can use this MSA linked digital license to re-activate your Genuine Windows 10 device by running the Activation troubleshooter, if you run into Activation issues caused by hardware changes.
After your device is upgraded to Windows 10 Pro, you'll need to activate Windows with your Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 7 Professional, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8 Pro Pack, Windows 8.1 Pro, or Windows 8.1 Pro Pack product key. (Windows 10 Pro) VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T OR (Windows 10 Pro N) 2B87N-8KFHP-DKV6R-Y2C8J-PKCKT
This option is not available and will not work in Windows 10 Home. Microsoft has prevented disabling automatic updates in the Home edition. This option will only work in the Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise editions. This option does the same as Option Three below.
For example – if your device has a digital license (formerly called “digital entitlement”) for Windows 10 Pro from a previously installed activated Windows 10 build but you accidentally re-installed Windows 10 Home on such a device, the troubleshooter will automatically guide you through upgrading to Windows 10 Pro and activate Windows.
The Local Group Policy Editor is only available in the Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise, and Education editions. All editions can use Option Twp below. 1 Open the all users , specific users or groups , or all users except administrators Local Group Policy Editor for how you want this policy applied.
Uninstalling the product key on a Windows 10 PC will not remove the digital license for that PC from Microsoft activation servers. If you try to activate Windows 10 on another PC with this same retail product key, you may have to activate by phone if online activation fails.
How to Enable or Disable Touchpad MultiFinger Gestures in Windows 10 If your Windows 10 PC (ex: laptop) has a built-in touchpad, you may want to enable and configure or disable multifinger gestures. MultiFinger Gestures provide shortcuts to frequently used applications or functions. These are the most common touchpad gestures for Windows 10:
I clean installed Windows 10 Pro x64 in VMware and used a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 key to try to active it. No go. However, Installing windows 7 Ultimate x64 in hyper-v, the same key activates win 7.