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To: dayglored

Oh just upgrade then revert back to what ever windows you’re using the nag will be gone and you’ll be able to install windows 10 later , you don’t need product keys anymore for win 7 ,8 .8.1 and 10


5 posted on 07/02/2016 8:31:42 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave
> Oh just upgrade then revert back to what ever windows you’re using

Yes, in theory. But a lot of folks have found that "reverting" does not, in fact, restore their system successfully. It's scrambled, or hosed.

Personally, the Win7 installations that I've upgraded to Win10 are all VMs (virtual machines) so I can "roll back" in 5 minutes with a file copy.

I wouldn't upgrade to Win10 on the bare metal of a mission-critical Win7 or Win8.1 computer on a bet. Too many horror stories. Experimentation is for VMs.

8 posted on 07/02/2016 8:36:19 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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To: butlerweave

“Oh just upgrade then revert back to what ever windows you’re using...”

My son tried to revert his desktop computer back to 7 after 10 was causing all sorts of havoc, and it wouldn’t go back, no matter what he did.

He finally had to waste a perfectly good two terabyte hard drive and reinstall 7 from a disk on a new hard drive.

Nasty piece of software, that 10.


32 posted on 07/02/2016 10:50:34 AM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: butlerweave

Butlerweave ... it is a word that has Surrender Embedded and Assumed all wrapped up in one little neat package.

Do you (Butlerweave) ever resume from “Assume” the position?
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:^)


73 posted on 07/02/2016 3:28:43 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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