It looks as if I'm going to upgrade my win7 desktop to win10 pretty directly. I've done it once already but put it back. I was afraid Windows Update would eat my key as it is phony. Anyway I bought a key on Ebay just now for $15, just how legit is yet to be determined. I'll change the key and then do the update. I'm running a thoroughly doctor version of 7 Ultimate.
I always wondered where those cheap win keys come from, I may have found one source. During my last trip to bestbuy while christmas shopping I noticed a roll around shelf unit close to the front door and it was full of old electronics people had dropped off for recycling, staring at it while waiting to check out I noticed about a half dozen old laptops and it hit me, wonder if any of those have Win 7 key stickers on them. If it hadn't been so packed in the store during the holiday rush I would have looked them over and grabbed pics of any key stickers with my cell phone, never know when an extra win 7 key could come in handy.
I really surprised MS hasn't pulled the plug on the 7 to 10 upgrade, how can they not realize people are still upgrading? I was wondering if they were letting it slide until the first of the year, hope you can get it to work. Around Nov I looked online at win 10 prices and I found 10 pro for $80 on amazon, a week later I went back to buy it and all those cheap deals were gone, not just off amazon but everywhere, from then on all I could find was close to full retail prices, I guess MS knew people were going to be buying....
Once I discovered you could still upgrade for free I was in a rush to get another SSD drive, get 10 installed on it and get it activated then I could go back to 7 and pick away at setting 10 up the way I want it and migrate over one of these days, still tinkering with 10. I'm getting closer to making the move but I really don't want too, I like 7, heck I liked XP!!