I had read back in sept of 2023 that microsoft shut down their activation servers for w7 and w8 to w10 upgrades and product keys.
However with great success over the weekend I am thinking that they must have been pressured by OEM's to revert back. Anyone have insight into this?
I installed genuine dell windows 7 pro 64bit on a dell micro, then upgraded using a w10 ver 1809 usb stick. I made sure to do the upgrade in windows and not in the setup mode.
Once w10 booted up, I connected a network cable and clicked the fix activation troublshooter and it activated no problem.
I then went to the media creation tool and updated to 22h2 version. Still is activated.
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Now, in years past, becuase i am ocd, I always let it run for a bit, then reformat, put the bios in UEFI mode with secure boot, then reinstall fresh. I may not do that this go around as maybe it wont activate. Not sure. I may read up how to covert the current OS over from legacy to UEFI.
However with great success over the weekend I am thinking that they must have been pressured by OEM's to revert back. Anyone have insight into this?
I installed genuine dell windows 7 pro 64bit on a dell micro, then upgraded using a w10 ver 1809 usb stick. I made sure to do the upgrade in windows and not in the setup mode.
Once w10 booted up, I connected a network cable and clicked the fix activation troublshooter and it activated no problem.
I then went to the media creation tool and updated to 22h2 version. Still is activated.
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Now, in years past, becuase i am ocd, I always let it run for a bit, then reformat, put the bios in UEFI mode with secure boot, then reinstall fresh. I may not do that this go around as maybe it wont activate. Not sure. I may read up how to covert the current OS over from legacy to UEFI.