Windows 10: Windows Creator Pro Edition

ok, you said windows 10 has already been installed on this machine?
If it has then the windows 7 or 8 licence is already used/converted and if windows is reinstalled, youcan skip entering an activation key during install as previously mentioned. Wildows will activate once you have finshed installing. Assuming you are connected to the internet that is.

This has always been the way windows 10 activates "Free" not just creators update.
I have used genuine windows 7 and windows 8 installations to update to windows 10 since release date.

BTW... The version of windows which should be installed and that will be activated is clearly indicated on the licencing key on the machine.

 

Interesting. I just inserted the Creator's Update on USB flash drive in my wife's laptop and ran Setup.exe. Within one hour it was done. A couple days later she asks me - "Did you ever put the big update on my computer you said it needed?" Yes, ma'am. Two days ago! My mother-in-law has no clue what build of Windows 10 her computer is on. I've upgrade that one all the way from Windows 10 build 10240 to Creator's Update, each major build update taking about 1 hour, and she has no clue at all. I just remote into her computer via RDP every now and then and make sure it is taking automatic updates and do a whole system back up for her about once a week because she runs her bookkeeping business from it.

Windows 10 is on over 400 million devices now. Sure we can think we need to do clean installs every major new build. But probably 390 million of those devices are going to get it via upgrade of their existing Windows 10.

 

jl2509. If you use a clean hard drive or have Linux on a har drive and want to install Windows 10, you can install the Anniversary edition and it will activate under the old rules if you select to activate later during the install.

If you try to install the Creators Update on a machine that you did not have Windows 7 or 8.x on the hard drive, you cannot do a upgrade install. Your only choice is to use your old key for Windows 7 or 8 and you can activate Creators under the old licensing rules that Microsoft went back to.

The bad part is that you will be installing all software if you try to use a ISO of Creators, since they have changed the policy as I stated above.