REDCHEQHEN Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 There are no longer any updates for Windows 7 - totally finished on 14th January - advice is to buy a new computer or purchase Windows 10I was able to update my other half's laptop for free on 15th January - but evidently that will stop VERY SHORTLY You can update Windows 7 to Windows 10 by going to the Microsoft website Make a note of your Windows 7 Activation Key number incase you need it (write it on a piece of paper) https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Click 'Download Tool now' - this downloads the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool.When finished, open the download and accept the license terms Choose: 'Upgrade this PC now' then click ‘Next’Choose ‘Keep personal files and apps’Click ‘Install’ (note this takes some time and involves multiple restarts)Once installed, open: Settings > Windows Update > Activation to activate your Windows 10 digital license...OR enter your (genuine) Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1 product key if you haven’t previously activated your old version of Windows If you’d like to check your licence has successfully been activated afterwards, open: Settings > Update & Security > Activation. Note: a Windows 10 licence is tied to your hardware. As such, if you need to format your computer for any reason Windows 10 will reactivate automatically. Good Luck It took about 4 hours for me to do an upgrade over Wifi - it may be quicker on a wired computer (and I only get 10MB per sec as well - a bit slow!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenlands Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 When you updated to 10 Sue,did you have to reinstall your programmes such as microsoft office or did it just overwrite windows 7 ?Lindsay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDCHEQHEN Posted January 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 Excel and Word both work OKOutlook does not - but the Microsoft office I have on there is 2002 version! I do have 2016 on my OWN computer which is newer - but that doesn't work 'great' (ebay...! say no more!) You get the choice to retain apps and files towards the end Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenlands Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 I have the Benzing app on mine and don't want to loose the club members INFO,rings etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDCHEQHEN Posted January 17, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 I have the Benzing app on mine and don't want to loose the club members INFO,rings etc. Ged had the UNIKON one on his - and that is OK (just checked as I forgot about it) Can you do a back up on a disc or anything? We have ours on another laptop anyway (club laptop) that was upgraded to Windows 10 a couple of years ago Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenlands Posted January 17, 2020 Report Share Posted January 17, 2020 I first updated a tower and laptop that I use when windows 10 first came out,just couldn't remember if there was an option to save files etc.I know there is if you want to do a system restore o 10,I'm a member on the microsoft site not sure if they do windows 10 for a 32 bit system,I'll have a look on there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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