Windows 10: Curious about Win 10 installs

Discus and support Curious about Win 10 installs in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Is there a difference between a full install of Win 10 and the free upgrade? What I'm trying to ask is, once its installed, can you tell what you have?... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by milford, Aug 10, 2015.

  1. MILFORD
    milford Win User

    Curious about Win 10 installs


    Is there a difference between a full install of Win 10 and the free upgrade? What I'm trying to ask is, once its installed, can you tell what you have?

    :)
     
    milford, Aug 10, 2015
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  2. JOANH319
    JoanH319 Win User

    Curious

    Curious about if there is a Spam Setting for my emails as I had in Win. 7. Is there?
     
    JoanH319, Aug 10, 2015
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  3. SKEPTISCH
    skeptisch Win User
    Upgrade from Windows 8.1 Pro will be to Windows 10 Home or Pro?

    roncajuldo makes sense, but why does a purchased and properly activated Win 8.1 Pro license only produces an upgrade to Win 10 Home? I remain curious, but am by now getting a tad dubious about MS' upgrade logic.
     
    skeptisch, Aug 10, 2015
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  4. PAULSALTER
    paulsalter Win User

    Curious about Win 10 installs

    free upgrade is a full install, it gives you a version equivalent to what you are currently running

    Settings->System->About will show what version of 10 you have

    I had 8 Home version, so now I have 10 Home version
     
    paulsalter, Aug 10, 2015
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  5. SIMRICK
    simrick Win User
    Hello Milford and Welcome to TenForums!

    As Paul says, you will get a full installation of the version you have now. Just to take that a little bit further:

    Once you've upgraded, and activated your new W10 OS, you will be able to "clean install" W10 on that same machine in the future, as often as needed. No keycode will be required, you just "skip" when it asks for a code, because your machine has already been upgraded.

    Just wanted to make sure you knew that.

    W10 ISO can be had from the MS Media Creation Tool. Download the architecture for your machine (32 or 64 bit), and create the ISO which can be burned to a DVD for future installations.

    To verify activation, go to All Settings, type "activation" in the search box, and select "See if Windows is Activated". This will show you the edition of Windows and the activation status. If you are not activated, please give the system some reboots to see if this resolves.
     
    simrick, Aug 10, 2015
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  6. BUNNYJ
    BunnyJ New Member
    Here's one thing to keep in mind. When you upgrade from Win8.1, for instance. Win10 will carry over features from 8.1 to 10 like Photo Viewer. If you then clean install 10 you will lose Photo Viewer .. you can get it back with a reg hack. Oh and for some reason with the upgrade bat files run fine but with a clean install they don't.

    Just an FYI.

    Jeff
     
    BunnyJ, Aug 10, 2015
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  7. SIMRICK
    simrick Win User
    simrick, Aug 10, 2015
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  8. CRAIGE
    Craige Win User

    Curious about Win 10 installs

    I am doin clean install soon, can I know how to get Default Windows 7, photo viewer back in Win 10 ?
     
    Craige, Aug 11, 2015
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  9. PAULSALTER
    paulsalter Win User
    paulsalter, Apr 4, 2018
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