Windows 10: Cost of Upgrade from XP to Win10Pro

Don't care about end of life. I just want to know if I can downgrade the version from ISO.

 

A win 10 Pro is 199.00 USD at MS. I am sure he can get a better deal at Amazon as I posted earlier.

 

A win 10 Pro is 199.00 USD at MS. I am sure he can get a better deal at Amazon as I posted earlier.

Here is a link to the download tool.

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...load_tool.html

 

You CAN'T downgrade with an older Windows 10 version ISO. All latest apps and drivers will not be supported and so you won't be able to keep your apps, files and settings (greyed out options). You can only clean install with an older ISO.

 

Take a look at some refurbished laptops Refurbished Laptops & Notebooks - Newegg.com over the last few years I've bought three (Dell Latitude E series, one 6400, two 6420's) two with Win7 Pro that I upgraded to W10 during the free upgrade period, and one with W10 Pro already on it.

These were all in the slightly more than $200 range, $219 to $238, this is older equipment, but they've worked fine for me. The Dell "E" series is Enterprise grade, and they're a little more robust than a consumer laptop. Something to consider when you're already using older equipment.

 

I HAVE a 1511 ISO. The question is can I install it on a system with a later version using the key of the later version? IOW, is the key associated with a specific version, or to the machine?

 

The key is not associated with a version. It is associated with the machine. You have to do a clean install (wipe out you later installation).

 

Yup, that's exactly what I intend to do. So I can do it a machine with any version of Pro installed? But not on a XP machine. Right?

 

It doesn't matter what OS is installed (Windows XP, 10 or Linux).If your PC specs can handle it, you can install Windows 10 on it. You will wipe out the hard drive anyway.
On the XP machine, it probably can handle the 32-bit version of the Windows 10.

 

I know the machine can handle it -- I already have it running on it. I want to buy an identical one as a backup.

My issue is that I want to install 1511 and not the current version and I wanted to make sure that I can downgrade the version with the key of the later version.

It looks like XP requires a new key that costs $200, so I will get one with any 10Pro.

 

Okay. I don't know what to say now. You are buying a backup OS? Or a backup machine? You can make OS backups for FREE. Perhaps, your issue is not knowing how to make backups. We can help with that, too. So that you don't have to reinstall all the time. It is called image backup.

 

Backup machine. I want to have two identical machines that I keep in sync, such that if anything happens to one I always have the other.

The one I have came with 1511, which I configured, customized and optimized. So I want to install the same version on the new one I am buying and they come with later versions do I needed to know if I can downgrade a later version to 1511 with the key of the later one. XP will cost me $200 to install 1511 on. 10WinPro 1607 or 1703 won't.

 

Last from me.
You don't need a backup machine. You only need a backup image. If something happens to the machine, you can restore it back like nothing happened in 30mins or so with all your data, settings and programs intact.

 

My last. If wanting a backup machine and buy one with Win10 on it and you have the .iso for a particular version you could go ahead and set up the new computer with a Microsoft Account which should create a digital license for it, shown as Activated on the right-click of Start button, choose System. Then you could get the .iso available, I prefer a DVD if the computer has such a drive, wipe the HDD/SSD and install the desired version WITH the Ethernet cable plugged in [or maybe Wi-Fi turned on] which should let the install find the Microsoft Account. When finished it should be activated but there's procedures if it isn't.

As far as the new machine, you specified an identical, unfortunately unless purchased at exactly the same time and source they won't be identical. Even if identical in that respect, it takes only the installation of a program on one of them to keep it from being identical with the other.

 

@oao,

Yes, you can do exactly what you want to do. Let's say you buy a computer with Windows 10 Pro, the latest Creator's Update build activated on it. Yes, you can copy your existing Windows 10 Pro version 1511 over to it and if it doesn't activate automatically with the digital license for the new computer, you can activate with the Product Key. The same Product Key will activate Windows 10 from the original 10240 build all the way up to the most recent CU build, as long as it is the same edition, IE Home or Pro.