@Begin2018 said:
@Xenithos : “You have a license to install Windows 10 and are upgrading this PC from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. […] If you don’t have a license to install Windows 10 and have not yet previously upgraded to it, you can purchase a copy here”
Then you need Win 10 licence, not only Win 7 or 8.1. I see nothing free for Win 10 activation on this page. It’s free to download, free to install, but it isn’t free to activate (30 days period with limitations).
Um, my bad about license on that page. I’d already pulled up a different one. Three things: First, you don’t need a license to use windows 10 at all, and the limited settings is literally limited in itself, second: If you enter your windows 7.8 or 8.1 keys it will still give you a digital license exactly like when the upgrade tool came out in the first place, relevant information:
! Windows will contact Microsoft’s activation servers and confirm the key to the previous version of Windows is real. If it is, Windows 10 will be installed and activated on your PC. Your PC acquires a “digital license” and you can continue using and reinstalling Windows 10 on it in the future. If you head to Settings > Update & security > Activation after installing Windows in this way, you’ll see the words “Windows is activated with a digital license”.
Even if Microsoft blocks this method in the future, your digital full license will remain intact and you will not have a limited version. I honestly thought everyone knew this.
Anyway, the third point, which is one that I just learned, is that Microsoft got rid of the “Accessibility” method, which was just clicking a box saying you used assistive services/technologies (meant for disabled folks etc) and it would give the same free upgrade of Windows 10. Turns out they blocked this in January something of this year.