Is there any way I can still get Windows 10 upgrade for free

If you didn't have local login, but used you microsoft acct. on the one that died, contact them on live chat. Tell them you replaced the motherboard, which is not a total lie since your new computer has a different motherboard. Then you can migrate that lic to this computer, MAYBE. You might not have to even contact MS, run the activation trouble shooter and click on I replaced hardware and follow the prompts. You might get lucky and find that the last own tried 10 and rolled back leaving the activation in the bios. I have run that a few times on used laptops. GL fingers crossed.

if you created a Microsoft account when you 1st installed windows 10 all you should have to do is install windows 10 and use the login during installation and it will activate automatically. Otherwise you are going to have to buy a licence. So if you skipped that and logged in locally, you are screwed.

I had to do a fresh re-install of Windows 10 Pro this week that was originally Windows 8 Pro. Sadly it was the only one of 5 machines that I didn't notate down the original key BUT luckily I had an 8 Pro key that must have been registered to my Microsoft account.

The way to clean reinstall 10 this way (using a 7, 8 or 8.1 key) is to commence the setup of 10 but once you get to the part asking for your key is to NOT enter it YET by selecting "I don't have one" (or something similar).

After 10 has installed and you've booted to the desktop of your fresh installation make sure to login to your PC using the same Microsoft account you were using before the reinstall. After this Right Click on "This PC" from within Explorer (or the Desktop if you've enabled that icon to show up on the desktop) and select Properties.

After opening Properties look at the bottom of this screen and find "Windows Activation". Click on this and once it asks for a key just enter your old Windows 7 key. This should then activate your freshly re-installed Windows 10. As long as you're logged into your Microsoft account on this PC the activation server should recognize your old Windows 7 key as valid for allowing you to activate Windows 10.

Any old activated keys for 7, 8 or 8.1 that were subsequently upgraded to 10 and activated and linked to a user's Microsoft account should work for a clean re-install of 10. The catch is you can't activate during installation, instead you must activate after installation and after you've logged into the PC using your Microsoft account. This worked for me February 1, 2018.

yes you can download windows ten for free i literally just have takes ages to download but my computer got the boot on the hard drive currupt when my electricity went down while i was in the middle of browsing when the electric came back on i could do nothing at all except go into f2 but all i could do from there was a complete factory reset it took me back to windows 8 i was gutted because lost everything, then i went into the link below https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10?ranMID=24542&ranEAID=je6NUbpObpQ&ranSiteID=je6NUbpObpQ-fsEVuOxgozXa9L41iYMP6A&tduid=(d8a7ef47ea48f63de0a5aa429ae2c6a9)(256380)(2459594)(je6NUbpObpQ-fsEVuOxgozXa9L41iYMP6A)() and pressed upgrade this computer now and straight away started download i am now replying from windows ten now

If you don't have any luck getting MS to let you re-upgrade for free, and you really want to use Win 10 and not Win 7 again, then you can install Win 10 and use it without activation. Simply download a Win 10 install from the MS web site using their Win 10 Media Creation tool (available from MS web site) and save it to a CD or DVD or USB drive, and use it to boot up and reinstall windows 10 on the crashed machine.

When you install, "Skip for now" the activation step - I think it'll ask you twice during the install. The only limit you have with a non-activated version is you can't customize your windows experience, and there will be a little nag watermark at the lower side of your desktop. So in theory you won't be able to change your desktop background theme by right-clicking - so-called "customization." However, if you have an image your want to use for background, you simply navigate to the image, right-click on it and select "set as desktop background."

My experience with Win 10 has not been great. Besides all the privacy invasions it enables, updates have been rather troublesome sometimes.

Not being sure about changing from Win 7 to Win 10, I read an article about installing Win 10 without upgrading or activating (see: http://www.windowscentral.com/you-do-not-need-activate-windows-10 ). All you lose is the ability to "customize" your Win 10 experience -sort of - as the article points out.

So I tried that to give Win 10 a spin. I created a dual boot (Win 7 and Win 10) hard drive (using methods described in another article, see: http://www.technotraps.com/how-to-install-dual-boot-windows-10-along-with-windows-7-or-8/ ) and tried Win 10 for a little over a year, right up until this last major update - the Fall Creator's Update. What a disaster that was! You may have read here at CNET about all the problems people had with it, lost picture files, etc. In my case, that update completely crashed one of our PC's which, by the way, HAD been upgraded from a Win 7 to a Win 10 license beyond salvation. There was a big big problem with graphic drivers apparently, but they didn't figure that out for a week or so - warning: uninstall graphics drivers before installing that WIN 10 update! Anyway. on that PC I just reinstalled Win 7 with the original OEM license (using a system image I had created before the upgrade to Win 10 just in case) and gave up on Win 10.

If MS complains about my doing that, my response will be you screwed up my PC to the point it was unusable with your !@%# Fall Creator's Update update so be thankful I don't sue you. Of course, they probably have language in their license that protects them from damages resulting from all the negligent programming they do.

On my dual boot Win 7/Win 10 PC, I just uninstalled Win 10 and said good riddance without even trying the FCUpdate.

On one of our other PC's that was upgraded from Win 7 to Win 10, the FC'sUpdate installed without any trouble, except that it basically took a whole day with multiple restarts and downloads and so forth. For some reason that PC had a different graphics card in it whose drivers didn't conflict with the update.

My mother-in-laws laptop completely crashed during the FCUpdate, but I saved it by restoring it to a prior-to-the-update restore point. I think she had turned it off in the middle of the update not realizing what the consequences might be. Alas.

I wish I had a dime for every hour I wasted in front of my PC's doing fixes for screwed up MS updates over the years.

Personally, I was underwhelmed with Win 10 and still find Win 7 reliable and useful. But that's just me.

Good Luck!

Very simple, click here... https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Create Windows 10 installation media...click ...download tool now, when it comes up, it will give you 2 options, upgrade on the spot or make a bootable thumb drive.
Do the upgrade and it just starts and simply follow the on screen directions.

this is IF you have a legit copy of win 7, win 8 or win 8.1.

if you still happen to have win XP, you first have to upgrade it to at least win 7.

Mark the puter geek

I found something out there on the web when I did a search for " "2018" How to still get Windows 7 for free". While this makes the suggestion to try using Windows 10 without a key/registration (which I would not do) this article DOES provide links to Microsoft to do it the way that I would do that includes using the product key of a previous OS back to and including Windows 7. https://www.howtogeek.com/272201/all-the-ways-you-can-still-get-windows-10-for-free/

BUT, IF none of what is suggested here in the forum or in that website works, then Greg WILL, in fact, have to call Microsoft and explain his predicament to them as [at least] one other in here has suggested to try to get a free upgrade of Windows 10 using his existing Windows 7 key. This may actually be the faster option.

In addition to the information given here, something that everyone who uses Windows 10 should keep up with is explained on this Microsoft web page: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet

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***Now, IF ....and that is an mighty BIG IF.... Greg can not wind up in the end with the Windows 10 installation of his desire in one way or another, then THAT could possibly be the time for him to start (at least) thinking about other options such as dual booting Linux (which IS free) with his existing Windows 7. At that time, he does [in fact] have the option to do his own research on the web and/or come back here [as well] to gather information about that IF he needs to and he so chooses. He may just opt to download and burn some ISOs of some different distributions of Linux to bootable media just to see what all the hype is about no matter what........ But, that is his choice to make.

According to Microsoft, The Windows 10 free upgrade through the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app ended on July 29, 2016. However, if you are using Windows 10 it will automatically be updated your device with the passage of time.

I wonder if there is still a way to upgrade for free?

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Saved me lot of time! Recovered keys for a few of my very important programs!