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Upgrade to Windows 10 free, here's how (the 2016 free upgrade offer still works for many users)
CNet ^ | Nov 16, 2019 | Alison DeNisco Rayome

Posted on 11/26/2019 7:26:55 PM PST by dayglored

Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer still works for many Windows 7 and 8 users.

With support for Windows 7 ending in January 2020, Microsoft is encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10 to keep devices running securely and smoothly. On Microsoft's website, the Windows 10 Home operating system costs $139 to download. However, you don't necessarily have to shell out the cash: A free upgrade offer from Microsoft that technically ended in 2016 still works.

When Windows 10 was first released in July 2015, Microsoft offered an unprecedented free upgrade offer for Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 users, good through July 2016. But in 2017, reporter Ed Bott from CNET sister site ZDNet reported that the free upgrade tool was still functional. As of November 2019, readers still report that it works, Bott confirmed to CNET. I tried it out, and was able to upgrade a 2014 Dell OptiPlex 9020 desktop machine from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: windows; windows10; windowspinglist; windowsupgrade
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To: Salamander
Man, that’s one ugly looking Memtest.

Looks to me like maybe a broken RAM chip/module, or possibly corrosion/dust/dirt on a socket contact. New RAM and compressed air to blow out any dust are likely to help.

Hopefully not corrosion or a lifted signal trace on the board. Those are possible but much less likely.

61 posted on 11/26/2019 9:23:10 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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To: Taxman

Ping


62 posted on 11/26/2019 9:23:27 PM PST by Taxman (We will never be a truly FRee people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS!)
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To: TexasGator
We had two Macintoshes in our office in the mid-80’s that were basically unused

Same. Job at SAIC had given the PC oversight to some Mac guy, so all the stuff for our use was the dreaded apple crap.

Many hours using AutoCAD on my and other MS type PCs.

The Mac version was like Klingon. What an alien operating system.

Remembered the old "I can't use a Mac..." I just dragged around my old panasonic lug-about.

63 posted on 11/26/2019 9:23:30 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: TexasGator

no more than yours.


64 posted on 11/26/2019 9:24:50 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: wastedyears

Been there, done that. Many moons ago. I’m no longer into self-flagellation with the cat-o-nine tails. I just bought this HP a month ago figuring the transition would be a breeze. Something changed since my last foray into conversion world. I’ll beat UEFI, Fast Boot and whatever else is in my way if it kills me. But LM Community Forum or HP Forum are not the places to look for any solution. The October 2019 source I found and followed failed as well.

Try, try, try again.


65 posted on 11/26/2019 9:29:07 PM PST by chulaivn66 ("...government will follow its natural tendency to despotism.")
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To: dayglored

Ha!

That was just part of the results!

I showed that to the “repair guy” who “fixed” it and he said he physically checked the RAM but then admitted he hadn’t checked the ones buried inside of it.

I’m guessing those are the problem sticks.

If I ever get some money that we all aren’t gonna eat, I’m getting the sticks pulled and replaced.

It guts me that it might only be a relatively simple fix that I’m scared to do, myself.

I’ve never disassembled a laptop this complex so completely before and I do not wanna make it worse.

[where did these extra screws come from?]

Bizarrely, if I scrape it to bare metal and reinstall the OS, it does run for a couple weeks and then the BSODs start again.

I run temp monitoring software and watch that religiously and heat doesn’t seem to be the issue because it runs fairly cool, considering it’s a beast, plus it sits on a massive laptop cooling pad with a 6” fan.

Has to be the RAM going bad.

I hope...


66 posted on 11/26/2019 9:51:44 PM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Secret Agent Man

I am retired. I can watch TV, play online poker and post here while drinking my rum and coke.


67 posted on 11/26/2019 9:55:37 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Salamander

Check for BIOS updates.


68 posted on 11/26/2019 9:57:15 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Salamander

Is your motherboard battery good?


69 posted on 11/26/2019 9:58:08 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

No idea.

He claims to have checked that, too.


70 posted on 11/26/2019 10:02:39 PM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: TexasGator

Did that.

In fact, the latest update coincided with all the BSODs so I downgraded it.

It worked okay for a while after that but progressively got worse until it completely stopped working at all.

Would not boot up in *any* mode.


71 posted on 11/26/2019 10:04:49 PM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: ducttape45

However, I’m with many others. I’ll continue to use Windows 7 or Linux, keeping a Windows 10 programmed hard drive handy (I have a docking tray where I can change out my hard drives).

For a couple of years I had two drives in my computer 1 had windows7 the other XP. When I booted up if I wanted windows 7 I hit delete at boot up and got my bios mem screen. Then change boot up disk..


72 posted on 11/26/2019 10:06:01 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

I still have my Win2000Pro discs.

I keep hoping that someday...

:D


73 posted on 11/26/2019 10:28:06 PM PST by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Switching to windows 10 from windows 7 is one of the regrets of my life. I threw up my hands and defected to apple, so much more rational and intuitive.


74 posted on 11/26/2019 10:32:13 PM PST by cookcounty (Susan Rice: G Gordon Liddy times 10.)
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To: dayglored

Are you telling me Windows XP has been replaced?


75 posted on 11/26/2019 10:36:32 PM PST by cabbieguy ("I suppose it will all make sense when we grow up")
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To: dayglored

bookmark


76 posted on 11/26/2019 10:37:33 PM PST by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: dayglored

When they first offered the free upgrade, I tried it. I had win 8.1. I kept the win 10 upgrade for less than 30 minutes. After implementing my monitor display was so messed up that the only way to turn off my PC was to unplug it. I have a laptop with win 10 and it works fine, but I will never attempt to upgrade my two pc’s with 8.1.


77 posted on 11/27/2019 2:28:05 AM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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Bookmarking


78 posted on 11/27/2019 2:51:34 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: dayglored

Bookmark bump


79 posted on 11/27/2019 4:23:05 AM PST by nralife
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To: Salamander

*** “it was all love and rockets” ***

Yes and Yes


80 posted on 11/27/2019 5:13:14 AM PST by TexasTransplant (Damn the Torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!)
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