And the product keys are different for Windows 8 and 8. After you do the upgrade, Windows will assign the new product key to the installation.
You can find that product key in a number of different ways and save it for the future. After that, you should be able to do a clean installation of Windows 8. Note that the Windows 8. Microsoft will offer you a direct download of the Windows 10 or Windows 8.
The tool will suggest a language, edition, and architecture for Windows based on information about the PC on which the tool is running. Next, select whether you want the tool to create a bootable USB flash drive with the installation media, or just create an ISO file that you can use or burn to a DVD later.
At this point, the Media Creation Tool will begin downloading the files and assembling your ISO, which can take a fair bit of time depending on your internet connection.
Next, choose whether you want the bit or bit version of Windows 7. When you click whichever version you want, the download will begin. Note that download links generated by the site are only valid for 24 hours.
Of course, you could always come back and walk through the verification and selection process again to generate new links.
When you install Windows 7, you can avoid the hassle of downloading and installing the hundreds of updates that came out after SP1 by installing the Windows 7 SP1 Convenience Rollup. The ISOs can be hard to find, though, and for versions of Windows other than the most current, the site tries really hard to push you into using the Media Creation Tool instead.
This includes various builds of the Windows 10 Insider Preview. First, head over to HeiDoc. Just launch the executable file. Note that in addition to the regular editions of the product such as Home or Professional , you can also download regions specific editions such as Windows N which is sold to the European market and does not include multimedia apps like Media Player and DVD Maker and Windows K which is sold to the Korean market.
Keep in mind that you have to download the ISOs within 24 hours, otherwise the download links will expire and the download will fail. Open the Windows 10 download page from here. The page will offer you a download link for the Media Creation Tool but you can apply our trick and get the ISO direct by changing the user agent in Edge. Press F12 in Microsoft Edge to open the Developer tools. The page will refresh and the direct ISO links will show up.
You have now skipped the Media Creation Tool step and you can finally download the files. From the drop-down menu, select Windows 10 October Update and click confirm. You can also open region and languages settings page to find the correct configuration.
Windows 10 October Update is said to be gradually rolling out to compatible devices and it should become available to more devices by end of this month. In addition to the automatic download, the manual download option is also available. You might want to check our article that details the minimum system requirements to run Windows 10 October Update. The feature update is also rolling out to compatible devices as an automatic download.
The software maker says that the company is using the machine learning algorithm to find the systems that can update to version securely without hitting any compatibility issues. If your PC, the installed drivers and apps are compatible, the update will show up in the coming hours or days without any manual action. For example, the Cloud clipboard that syncs the clipboard content across devices is now available. Microsoft has also added a dark mode to the File Explorer and quietly updated the hidden UWP modern File Explorer with design improvements.
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