We wouldn’t worry about it for home PCs, but organizations should likely contact their Microsoft licensing partner for more details. If you have Windows 7 PCs in your business, Microsoft may not consider you compliant with the terms of its licensing agreement after using this method to upgrade your business PCs. If your Enterprise license is part of a volume license, you should ask your company for a proper upgrade procedure instead, they'll probably get it as part of their subscription.Īs of Feb 2022, the upgrade to Windows 10 is still free.Update: Note that we can’t speak to the business licensing side of things here. I didn't try this, but it's likely the same as the downgrader executable does for you. slmgr will show you have a valid license.Īlternatively, you can (probably) do this by hand just as easily by following the registry changes explained in this post. License info (under Settings > Update & Security > Activation) will show "Windows is activated with a digital license". After upgrade, you'll be upgraded to Windows 10 Enterprise. Download and run the Windows 10 installer.At this moment, some registry keys are changed, but officially you're still on Windows 7 Enterprise.
do not re-install windows (for a proper downgrade, this is necessary, but we don't need that).I found that upgrading for free is possible by doing the following: The language or edition of the version of windows currently installed on your pc isn't supported by this tool Running a the installer normally gave me the following message:
My Dell system also came installed with Windows 7 Enterprise (while I have an official hard copy of Ultimate).
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