Windows 10: win 10 upgrade?

is there any difference in the free version of win 10 you can upgrade to to the version you can buy in the store or download from the torrent

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Settings Icon Appeared Then Disappeared on Desktop By Itself

Totally irrelevant! Do you even read the context of the post???

 

Settings Icon Appeared Then Disappeared on Desktop By Itself

Windows 10 Pro / A settings icon appeared on my desktop all by itself last night. When I clicked on it, it was a list like in previous versions of Windows. It even let me choose sized in upper right corner. This morning 8-16-2015 the settings icon on desktop
is gone all by itself.

 

there is no need for a torrent download...

You can download or create New setup media using either source..

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/techbench

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...load/windows10

 

There is no difference between upgrade version and a key or box bought in a store. There can be a difference in the license. The upgrade is only licensed on that computer, where the full retail can be uninstalled from a computer and installed on another.

 

The difference between the free upgrade version and what you would buy in the store is the way it activates. The store bought version will activate based upon the included product key alone, while the upgrade version will activate first based upon evidence of a previously licensed OS found on that computer - which then gets stored on Microsoft servers - which then can be retrieved by the same computer for later activations.

Other than the way it activates, there is no difference.

What you get from a torrent is anyone's guess because those are not from Microsoft - those are from whomever uploaded them.

 

reading the products.xml
The new setup media downloads as both OEM and retail..

Actually all the MS ISO's are the Retail Release - other then preview releases