The Windows 10 operating system officially became available for download in July 2015. The operating system developer provided customers with the option to upgrade the 7 to 10 within a year. After a year, however, there is also the option to upgrade Windows 7 to the tenth version.
Microsoft Corporation has made it possible for owners of licensed versions of the seven and eight to update their windows of the tenth version for free within a year after the official release of the tenth version. At the end of August 2016, there seems to be no way to upgrade to the tenth version. For example, a laptop owner forgot about the need to update on time due to the fact that the decision to update the operating system was made late. However, Microsoft has left a loophole to upgrade Windows 7 to version 10 for free. At the same time, the update is no longer as easy to do as it was before, but this opportunity remains. The possibility of such an upgrade can be shown on the example of a laptop.
Installing Windows 7 updates
In our example, we take the official version of the "Windows 7 Ultimate" operating system. Before you upgrade from Windows 7 to a dozen, you first need to install all updates to Windows 7 itself. How to do this?
- Go to the Start Menu, Control Panel, System and Security.
- In the open window there is an item "Windows Update". Click on it and start searching for updates.
- In principle, if you start immediately updating the seven to the tenth version without updating the seven itself, then at a certain stage, the transition to the seventh version will still occur. Therefore, this procedure will still have to be done.
- After you finish searching for updates, pay attention to the list of important updates (in my case, 66 important updates) and the list of optional updates (in my case, 58 optional updates).
- Important updates need to be installed, in our case 66 updates. They must be installed to update Windows, so in the open window we press the button "install updates".
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These updates are then installed.
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Migrating Direct Upgrade to Windows 10
I want to say right away that if you enter the search query "update seven to ten" in a regular search engine, you will immediately go to the page "microsoftstore.com", where you will be offered to purchase a completely official professional version of Windows 10 for a purely symbolic amount.
- After following the link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/windows10upgrade, it is possible for people with disabilities to update the operating system for free.
- But at the same time, the check on belonging to this category of people does not work on the site, all people who have access to this link have the opportunity to download.
- After loading the page at the bottom, click on the "Update now" button.
- After clicking the button, the update installation file will be downloaded.
- Before carrying out the update, all the important information that is on the hard drive must be saved on the external hard drive.
- In fact, during the update, information will hardly be lost if the correct items are selected, but it is better to play it safe.
- Then run the downloaded file, then click on the "Yes" button.
- In the window that opens, we agree with the terms of the license agreement and click on the "Accept" button.
- After accepting the agreement, a check will be made of the compatibility of the computer hardware with the requirements of the Windows 10 operating system.
- Then the update is being prepared, and Windows 10 is being downloaded and updated online.
- This process can take a long time.
- After the download of updates is completed, a window will appear indicating that updates are ready and the need to restart the computer.
- Click on the "Restart now" button.
- After rebooting, various inscriptions may appear on the monitor, you just need to wait, the process can take a very long time.
As a result, the upgrade of the operating system from seven to ten was successful.
