Windows 10: Is there a tutorial on transfer license to a new machine? :Eula 4b.

EULA clause 4b states:

It is not clear how this may be done, especially if the upgrade to Windows 10 was done from a retail copy of 7 or 8.x, or 8MCE.

I cannot find a tutorial here on Tenforums.

:)

 

HOW do I transfer windows (retail license) after upgrading to Windows 10?

Keep reading it until you get it.

Win10 EULA 4b purposely states nothing in any form about the upgrade path via the 'free Win10 upgrade' offer.

 

Transferability of retail Windows 7 license after upgrade/rollback of Windows 10

I have retail Windows 7 and 8 licenses bought directly from the Microsoft store. The EULA allows these licenses to be transferred to new hardware. What is the effect if machines with these licenses are upgraded to Windows 10 and then rolled back?

I would want to do this because I have read that upgrade before July 29, even with an immediate rollback, reserves for that machine a Windows 10 license. But I would not want to do that if this procedure affects the EULA that allows my direct-purchase-from
Microsoft licenses to transfer to another machine.

What is the effect of an upgrade/rollback of Windows 10 on the transferability of my licenses to new hardware, as specified in the original EULA ?

 

Would have thought install W10 ISO....and activate with Product ID.

 

As we all know, Windows 10 is a "whole new ballgame" but in the past, when I transferred Windows from one machine to another, it wouldn't activate, and then it gave a phone number to call. Call that number and they give you a long string of numbers to plug in; once done, you will be activated on the new machine and will be asked if you took Windows off the old machine.

 

So it may only be done by phone now? - there is no "new hardware transfer assistant" or Microsoft Account "digital entitlement switcher" available yet?

 

As far as I know, there never has been a "new hardware transfer assistant". At least I've never seen one. I've transferred Windows to new computers several times and always had to "make the phone call".

But, as I said, Windows 10 is a whole new ball game! *What

 

Have a look at this and see if it helps. It was posted by another forum member in another thread, http://www.windowscentral.com/how-re...ardware-change
I've only glanced at it and haven't looked at it in detail yet.

 

Thanks, both Wynona and Alphanumeric for the suggestions, tried the process in Alphanumeric's link earlier, but drew a blank - well - it came back to Wynona's suggestion!

I'll wait a while, nothing is urgent, these days!

 

Usually you would like the digital license on the PC to your Microsoft account (MSA) to then be able to use the Activation Troubleshooter to activate the PC after a hardware change. *Smile

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...ows-10-pc.html

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5...dows-10-a.html

 

Thanks, Shawn, if you need to replace a dying laptop (broken screen, broken hinges, dead touchpad and faulty keyboard) with a desktop then the license activation troubleshooter does not recognise the laptop's MSA linked digital license as being the right "type" for transfer to a desktop replacement:

The EULA does not state a prerequisite device to device "type" for the transfer, and neither does the EULA state that a Microsoft Account is a prerequisite for the ability to transfer under the terms of 4b.

Solved it, possibly not in the most elegant way 10th August 2016.

Took the old disk (40GB IDE!) from the old laptop that had the original clean Windows 7 image restored to it, and installed it in the new desktop. Booted into Windows 7 on that disk, and it reported genuine. Then I let it update drivers, created genuine ticket using GatherOSState.exe from 1511 install disk copied to desktop. Created new Windows 10 partition of 20GB and clean installed 1511x86 onto it. Installed GenuineTicket.xml. Logged in with MSA. Did some upgrades and rebooted a couple of times. Checked activation - activated with a digital license (did not say linked to MS Account, strangely).

Shut down, swapped out old disk, and replaced with disk that had 1607 clean installed on new machine on 9 August, set up as Insider, Fast ring with MSA, not activated yet.

Booted up and the 1607 is activated with a digital license linked to my Microsoft account.

So long Travelmate after 10 years. It was the final straw when I could not upgrade from 10586 with Windows Updates.