That easy

At the end of 2017 the deadline to upgrade a PC to Windows 10 for free was over. At that time the deadline to upgrade your computer ended in which case you were using Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 A deadline that once exceeded, they would have to go to the checkout if they wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Windows 10.

Now, almost three years later, we wanted to check the situation of users who want to update their equipment and do it legally and also for free. Is it still possible? With Windows 10 May 2020 on the market, is it possible to upgrade to Windows 10 in the latest version?Let's check it out.

We're moving to Windows 10

Before starting the process, it is convenient to take into account a series of tips that are not known to many, but should be overlooked. It is essential to have a backup before any eventuality that could cause failures in the process and make us lose data. And having said all this, let's get to homework.

Good news is that if you have a computer that has Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 installed you can update it for free and without going through the checkout … in July 2020.

And all thanks to a totally legal tool, from Microsoft itself. This is the Microsoft Media Creation Tool, a utility that you can download from this link and that guides you step by step through the process.

"Once Media Creation Tools or Microsoft media creation tool has been downloaded, all we have to do is start the application and after accepting the license terms, click on the Update this computer now button> "

Media Creation Tool will analyze our equipment to determine if it meets all the conditions to be able to update (including whether or not we have license) and complying with them allows us to continue the process.

Firstly the program searches for existing updates and after that step it offers us the installation, although it offers us the possibility of changing those we want to keep. We can customize the installation of Windows 10.

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If we access this section, it asks us what type of installation we want. We can opt for an installation crushing the existing one but keeping files, perform an update in which only temporary or clean files are kept, deleting everything in its path. "

By default it is set to keep personal files and installed applications. It is interesting to assess if it is not better (I think it is) make an installation from scratch, the one that appears in the third option, so it is convenient to have a copy prior security of everything we want to save since we are going to delete all the files.

At this point, we can only wait for the conclusion of the process which may take more or less time depending on capacity of our team.

If we jump from another version of Windows 10

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Once downloaded to our computer, you must double click on the file Windows 10 Upgrade that you just downloaded, accept the terms of license, and in the window that appears then select the option Update to the latest version of Windows 10>"

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When the Windows 10 Upgrade Wizard has checked the hardware compatibility, the download of Windows 10 starts, yes, from the first version to hit the market.The process takes more or less depending on the speed of the network we have at home."

During the process, we see how the system performs several steps. First prepare the update and then download it in a process that depends above all on the speed of our connection.

The next step is the installation process itself, in my case, the one that has taken me the longest. During the entire process you can use the computer normally and only at the end will the computer ask you to restart it to complete the entire process.

The license…

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If you have a licensed copy of Windows, it&39;s already tied to your computer, so it jumps directly to the new version you just installed and system activation happens automatically . You can check it in the menu Settings in section Update and security by accessing the menu on the right in space Activation"

If you don't have a license, you can opt for a clean installation of Windows 10 by creating a boot disk using a USB following the tutorial we made a few months ago. In this case, the system will be completely installed, since the option to enter the license appears at the end.

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What if you don&39;t have a license? The main limitation of using Windows 10 without a license is thatwe will see a notice on the screen alerting us that we have to "Activate Windows 10", for which we are invited to enter the product key inside Activation>"

And it is that where we will really notice it is when we find how we have a lesser capacity for customization. We will have access to fewer options within the customization menu, since we will not have the possibility of changing the colors and wallpaper.

These are the only two limitations, since we can use Windows 10 without problems and without time limits.