Windows 10: Cost of Upgrade from XP to Win10Pro

You basically need some help but you refused to accept. We don't encourage staying with unsupported Windows version unless you use your machine to play Minesweeper only.
You are creating your own problem by refusing to accept the latest updates. Staying with Windows 7-like environment will not make your life easier. Otherwise, you won't be popping up these questions. My suggestion for you is to go back to Windows 7 because for sure it will be supported far longer than version 1511 of Windows 10.
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Please oao, solutions have been mentioned so that things do not get worse. I also am an older fella and certainly not a young guy. I had to learn computers OTJ without any training umpteen years ago and am an intermediate user at best. I volunteer at our senior center and have had to rebuild 3 new Win10 computers because the owners didn't want change or accept the natural progression of the modern systems. Naturally it's your decision on how to want to manage your systems but you will reach a point of counter productivity: it's just a matter of time. I hope you can tell I'm not trying to force anything on you (and neither is any one else) and am attempting to politely promote using your computers in their natural state. Yes there are personal tweaks to adjust in the beginning but just as you have your methods, I do so according to my methods also. Fortunately even as an older person, my Win10 computers run excellently and MSFT WU's and other new items do not hinder me from enjoying my computers. Well I guess I'm stretching my story now but in the end, I just want to wish good luck on your computer usage.

 

In addition to the post by NavyLcdr ( who appears to be the only one that attempted to answer your question ), there is another way.

If you have a win7/8/8.1 key, Iirc they are accepted by 1511 installation media.

 

Yes, I am aware of that, except that it must be Pro as I need to install 1511 Pro. This won't work with XP--it will require buying a Win10Pro license. Which means that I must buy a system that either has a 7/8 Pro and hope that the install is still free; or, safer, an activated 10Pro.

 

You may be able to get 8 Pro key cheaply. A lot of us bought several when there was an intro offer, think it was $30 or might have been $25, can't recall exactly.

 

Thanks, but since I am buying a used system and many of them come with 10Pro installed, I won't need to buy a license. I will use the machine's one to install 1511Pro.

 

I answered his question on the second post but it does not matter as the OP will not listen to anyone Even NavyLcdr*Busted

 

I did not claim that you did not answer, but there were other issues and need for clarifications.

I listen to everything, but not necessarily mean that I agree with or accept everything. This was a matter that I INVESTIGATED. There were all sorts of answers, some useful, some not and some were just criticizing my plan without any grounding or understanding.

Nevertheless I learned what I needed to know: That I can install 1511Pro and a machine with any 10Pro license without buying a new license. There were a lot of answers here and elsewhere that either did not make it clear, or claimed that it wasn't possible.

 

He did listen to any that were relevant. You can tell from his last post.

 

So all other members poets were not relevant? He ask how much a win10 Key was.

See the image below. It would be nice to work together as a team to solve someone problem and not very nice to Post what you did about NavyLcdr. You put down anyone that responded. OaO I was not referring to you.

 

This post.

 

Again, you are trying to impose your notion of relevance. I can decide for myself what is relevant and what is not, thanks.

In online exchanges it is never the case that we have all the information we need in both questions and answers. One has to be careful deciding for others what is important, relevant or make sense. In many instances we may not understand the questions, or may miss something. Or difficult to pay the attention required while doing many things at once such as working and handling many responses simultaneously.

For example another forum somebody told me that I can only install the current version of Win10 on the machine and not any early version. Turns out he was assuming I don't have the 1511 ISO, which was false. But I had no way of knowing that so I took it to possibly be true and asked about it in another forum. When you do such investigations it takes time to figure things out.

That' does not mean not listening.

 

There are many ways to get your problem resolved. Remember Google is your friend. You can always join the Insiders Program then download the Build that you want.

https://insider.windows.com/?wa=wsignin1.0

 

I said appears to be. That implies there may have been others. There were, however,posts trying to tell the OP to do something else, rather than answer the question.

 

Semantics, just move on.