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- ☀️ You can download Windows 8.1, 10, and 11 from legitimate sources. If you have a legal retail product key, this can be your replacement media.
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Windows 8.1, 10, and 11 can all be downloaded from Microsoft directly. You can upgrade any machine already running a licensed copy of Windows to Windows 10 or 11 for free. Otherwise, you’ll need to purchase a license key.
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Be aware that if you have an OEM license, and you've updated the bios (UEFI), windows may decide that you've 'changed the hardware' and invalidate your license.
I bought a Retail license so I wouldn’t have to worry about this.
Windows 10 support ends in about a year and a half, and Windows 8.1 is already unsupported. At this point you're using Windows 8.1 at your own risk, and if you really have to start fresh your best bet is probably to either upgrade to Windows 11 (if Microsoft will even let you without buying a new machine) or switch to Linux. Before you know it Windows 10 will be losing support and the only official way forward will be to fork over the money to Microsoft to upgrade. Personally, I'd rather just jump to Linux, but considering I already did that over 20 years ago, I can't really do that again.
Even if you do not need a Windows 10 ISO, or a Windows 11 ISO, you should download both of them.
Just as every other Windows version gets retired, and finding a safe way to install old Microsoft operating systems becomes problematic...
...so will be the case with Windows 10, one day, and also with Windows 11, one day.
You might never need those downloaded ISO files. But why not have a copy? Grab the legitimate, legal ISO files from Microsoft while they are available.
Yeah, that’s what I do. Better to have a copy.
6:33 Amazing MS is telling individuals with equipment MS says will run Windows 10 but not Windows 11 we will not sell you a legal copy of Windows 10.
You might even get a version of win11 that is full of ads!
You can still use Windows Update on unlicensed Windows
have been for years, right.
your welcome for watching
I bought Windows 11 Retail keys so I don’t have to worry about a motherboard replacement and the key no longer working.
Is still possible to separately purchase the installable Windows operating system on a disk, and a computer which has no operating system; and then to initiate the Windows install oneself?
Yes, on USB. But you can just as easily use a different PC to create media of your own. www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/windows-11-pro/dg7gmgf0d8h4?rtc=1
Leo, I had a power spike which took out the hard drive and my backup drive attached to the desktop PC. I can not turn on the PC sine the hard drive has failed. The PC is a Lenovo was purchased 6-2011. It is a back-up PC, I am having a hard time trying to get to the bios. I have tried F12, F1 & F5. Any suggestions? I had windows 10 on this machine but it was not compatible with Windows 11. I do not have a windows 10 key for this PC, I am lost. Maybe i is telling me it is time to retire this PC.
Thanks for listening to my story.
You'll have to ask Lenovo about how to enter your BIOS settings, but as for Windows 10 -- if you can get a Windows 10 setup disc or USB created elsewhere, it should activate automatically since you're installing it on hardware that it ran on previously.
If I have a retail licence of Windows 11 Pro will I be able to download and install a retail version of Windows 10 Pro?
It's unclear. I know 10->11 works, but not sure about 11->10. I would GUESS so, but it's only a guess at this point.
If I could do it, I'd like Windows 7 again. But getting software to run on it is difficult now.
btw windows 7 out of support no more updates extremely vulnerable as a swiss cheese
Honestly, you just described *every* version of Windows. They've all got more security holes than Swiss cheese.@@franciscohorna5542
@@franciscohorna5542 "btw windows 7 out of support no more updates extremely vulnerable as a swiss cheese"
Microsoft still sends out "Defender Antivirus" updates for Windows 7, and also sends out "Malicious Software Removal Tool" updates for Windows 7.
"If I could do it, I'd like Windows 7 again. But getting software to run on it is difficult now."
Nearly all software that is compatible with Windows 10 will run on Windows 7.
Vendors just stopped testing on Windows 7, and so they do not list Windows 7 as an OS that will run their software.
@@NoEgg4u you can have windows 7 but it needs to be offline not connected to internet to riskey to many vulnerabilities
btw why would anyone want windows 8 thats end of support
I have a all in one PC that does not have the power to run Windows 10 (150 - 200 processes running). Win 8 only runs about 40 processes. The All in one PC is used as a web-browser.
@@markae0 yea but yer vulnerable to hackers and attackes no security updates but if it works for you great just be carfull
@@franciscohorna5542 I prefer to be bikefull. 😂
@@franciscohorna5542 Malware can only enter via malicious web pages you open or program attachments you download or detach from emails. Don't run scripts from unknown/unsecure web pages by using a browser extension that blocks scripts like NoScript (only in Firefox), and use common sense and be extremely cautious when running new software (new to your computer), or test it in sites like VirusTotal prior to use it. Otherwise no one can enter your computer, as the connection to the internet is done via a router that is protected by a technology called NAT, unless your router has been compromised. How? because many routers share the same ISP login/passwords, anyone who enter it as administrator can change its configuration to its likings.
@@franciscohorna5542 Right. No passwords or banking on the machine. My router blocks internet stuff and 64 bit operating systems are much more resistant to attack.
The question is where can I download Windows 9?
Thankfully I don't need commercial applications. I evicted "windows" back in January of 2009.
I guess you are a Linux guy. I am considering trying it, a complete novice. What forum do you recommend? I think I will go with Debian, for having the largest repository of applications and the difficulty is medium (that's is how I understand it).
I never partook forums. I moved to Debian after 14 years on Ubuntu. I had no problems with either until moving to Ubuntu 24.04 -- suddenly it wouldn't recover from Suspend. If you have the coin, my best suggestion is to try Debian etc. on a second SSD. If you don't like what you got, just plug your other drive back in. Though I've heard good things about Pop OS, it didn't mate well with my AMD video. Your experience may be different.
Windows has been great for me . XP, it so much , but Vista and on have been great. Even 8.1 was solid .
@@D.von.N Linux Mint was easy enough I found, after moving from windows. Try a live USB image. That way you get a feel without disturbing what is on your hard drive. On the first laptop I used for linux,I bought a new ssd, removed the drive with windows on it, fitted the ssd and then installed Mint to the new drive. Then if it all went badly wrong it would have been easy to go back to windows. That was over five years ago. I never put the windows drive back. There is a bit of a learning curve and it's not for everyone, but if you don't try you will never know.
Some get lucky and have no intrusions. I simply got tired of paying. I don't need a new(er) computer just to run Debian. My 2010 imac cost me $99, and runs fine.