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by aluhut 3668 days ago
As someone who held onto Win2k until it hurt, I still thought it might be a good deal back then when they offered the free upgrade from 7 to 10. I thought: I'll just wait until the last moment so I can see what kind of bugs come up. While upgrading one of my laptops to 10 to play around with it and be prepared (which was a horrible experience on it's own).

Now with the moment coming closer and seeing what they do there, I'm pretty sure I'll play the win2k game one more time with my win7 and see what comes up next. Even if I'd have to pay for it.

2 comments

1. Backup your Windows 7 install

2. Upgrade to Windows 10 (this associates your machine with a permanent license)

3. Restore your backup

If/when time comes to actually upgrade, you should be able to do so (or install from scratch) using the license you acquired in step 2.

I just run win7 in a VM on Linux.