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i did recently boot a windows machine running windows 10 that i unplugged about 3 years ago. It took about 2 hours to fully update on my crap wired internet, but now works fine. i3-7350k with NVME. I was shocked that everything worked so well, i fully expected to have to boot into something and recover the windows install key and do a full reformat-reinstall.

now if i'd do that with something that had the original release of winten, probably not. But i'd happily boot a win7 machine that was >3 years offline.