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Microsoft stopped issuing upgrades for XP back in 2014. While there are still a number of dedicated users (possibly 1.6% of users worldwide) the risk of your XP falling over and problems with incompatibility with more modern software increase daily.
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If your PC is as old as your operating system, its unlikely it could be upgraded to Windows 10.
It may be time to consider a new PC.
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They stopped offering windows 10 for free a few years ago. I had missed the boat, then got another pc. For the new pc I did find a perfectly legit copy for $12. Beats the $80 to $100 I was paying for the OEM versions that were considered cheap.
Glad they are giving it away again, and hope I can get it for my old win 7 machine.
Glad they are giving it away again, and hope I can get it for my old win 7 machine.
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Cool. Cool, cool, cool.
Haven't tried a direct upgrade (but I don't see why not), but I can confirm fresh installs have been accepting keys consistently over the past few years. Whether or not they changed anything in the past few months, I haven't tried, but I've been shoving 7/8 keys into activation prompts sporadically since Windows 10 came out (as recently as last year) and it's activated every time.
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I have a new old computer, i bought from my school. then one i had in my room. It runs i believe office vista.
But as long as this computer is working i will us it, like i said i am not a big user of a computer. As long as i can order from amazon, and a few of my art supply places i am ok.
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Windows 10 has built in protection. I also have malwarebytes antimalware. I upgraded because my laptop had been compromised by malware. There are some pros to Windows 10. It is similar to Windows 7, and nothing like Windows 8.
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I've been doing free Win10 upgrades - not fresh installs - for years. As @Wookiee said, they said they stopped offering it (to placate the OEMs, I believe, because free upgrades were killing the new PC market), but never really did. They just moved the download location off the MS domain. But the validations still sailed through.
W10 is a nice piece of eye candy, but I recommend Linux unless you need to run proprietary Windows software. Most people live in their browsers, though, and LibreOffice is a good substitute for MS Office for most purposes. And Linux will handle older hardware better than Windows.
W10 is a nice piece of eye candy, but I recommend Linux unless you need to run proprietary Windows software. Most people live in their browsers, though, and LibreOffice is a good substitute for MS Office for most purposes. And Linux will handle older hardware better than Windows.
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do you have any recommendations for a browser. I really dislike firefox, It has become huge, over two gigs.
Most other browsers aren't compatible with everything else that I have found.
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he problem is what if you have problems can you back out or is you original install ruined?
I ttied this update before and I think it said it wasn't possible but I don't remember for sure.
With an upgrade does it maintain the drivers you have already and need?
I ttied this update before and I think it said it wasn't possible but I don't remember for sure.
With an upgrade does it maintain the drivers you have already and need?
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Been awhile ago, but now I seem to recall, I could download it, but it kept erroring out before the install with some error that, of course, told me absolutely nothing.
I remeber the days when we could simply copy the hard drive with a windows install on it for a back up, and it would work, then they began locking it down tight.
Its time I gave linux another look see.
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