This can be your windows 7 or windows 8 retail or oem product key before upgrading.
Windows 7 upgrade to windows 10 product key not valid.
Product key windows 7 upgrade rejected as not valid by ms 03 23 2017 06 20 am if after following that guide windows 7 is still not activated and you are not up to more advanced troubleshooting then the most logical next step is to purchase a different product key and using that new key to activate.
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If you have windows 7 pcs in your business microsoft may not consider you compliant with the terms of its.
I bought w7 pro off of the microsoft website where it gave me and iso to.
The most notable being that windows 10 is free for existing windows 7 8 8 1 users for the first year.
Windows won t let me install says my product key is not valid.
Hi i wanted to do a clean install so i wiped my hard drive.
Upgrading to windows 7 is pretty straightforward and if you ve been using an authentic version of windows 7 you can do it using your windows key.
Windows 10 would then report that key to microsoft s servers and windows 10 s activation servers would give your pc a digital entitlement now a digital license to continue using windows 10 for free just as.
This allowed users to perform a clean install windows 10 and enter a valid windows 7 8 or 8 1 key during installation.
Note that we can t speak to the business licensing side of things here.
This is the product key you want if you encounter product activation issues in windows 10.
And after you do upgrade your pc gets a valid windows 10 key that will keep working even if microsoft stops allowing new upgrades in the future.
The original product key.
Regardless of this product activation remains a part of windows 10.
Activating windows 10 with a windows 7 product key still works so even if you didn t install windows 10 during the free upgrade promo you can still do that at no extra cost.
Now when i go and install w7 i get up to the last part of installation where it asks me for my product key i enter it but it says its not valid.