SO anyway I relented and just before the deadline I installed W10. Just as I was getting sort of used to it, my Motherboard imploded and died. Damn and blast I had planned on a major upgrade in the New Year but could not afford it right now. So I bought a replacement Gigabyte UD3H Black as NCIX had a sale and it was quite close in specs to my old Asus Hero VII (never did get on with the Asus anyway). Installing it went fine and dandy and all was recognized by the PC seemingly OK and booting into W10 just great. Then by chance I noticed the lines at the bottom of the Computer Properties page. "Windows has not been activated"!!!
Oh well simple enough I thought just click on the link. But Oh no, that was not possible it was requesting licence numbers of which I did not have and the old W7 and W8.1 disks which I do have do not work. Plus it has gone beyond time whereby it is possible to unistall W10 and return to the older OS.
Repair does not work either. OK reinstall from scratch I thought that is probably a good idea. Installed my W8.1 disk. All fine until activate - this is licenced to another PC!!! Same darned PC of course. Ring MS repeatedly - no reply.
OK back to W7 - that did install but not with my serial number ohhhh no, but it did on my wifes PC's serial and she had gone from 7 to 10 about 1 year ago.
What a palaver 2 wasted days getting up and running and still a ton of stuff to reinstall yet.
So if anyone is contemplating a major upgrade of hardware and you have the free W10 - enter that decision with trepidation.
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