Windows 10: Windows Update Possible On A PC That's Shutdown?

At 03:30 this morning I shutdown this machine. Left and spent the day in the hospital until 13:30 this afternoon, Home and brought up the machine and just thought to check WD updates. How can this update be when the computer was down?





Or am I misunderstanding the "Last Update" meaning?

:)

 

Is it possible to activate Windows 10 Pro on a PC with Windows 8.1 Pro license?

Yes, you can.

If you are prompted to enter a product key:

Click Do this Later.





Verify if you have the November Update installed:

How to verify if
you downloaded or installed the Windows 10 November Update

If you do, then all you need to do is change the product key using your Windows 7 or 8 product key:

Click Start > Settings > Update & security
> Activation > Change the product key then enter the new product key then click
Next to Activate





If you don't have the November Update, download it then perform a repair upgrade:

How to download official
Windows 10 ISO files

then

How to: perform
a repair upgrade using the Windows 10 ISO file

You can also contact support to activate:

Activate Your Windows 10 License via Microsoft Chat Support

 

Is it possible to activate Windows 10 Pro on a PC with Windows 8.1 Pro license?

Good morning.

I've done a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro (formatting the hard disk with an iso that I downloaded from Microsoft's official site), on a PC wich came up with a Windows 8.1 Pro license. When trying to active it, it does succesfully but I need to know
if it's correct to do it that way.

Thanks in advance.

 

Did you just click on Shutdown in the start menu ?
In Windows 8/8.1/10 that actually put's your pc in hybrid-sleep and it probably wakes up for updates.
To actually shutdown Windows 8/8.1/10, you need to click on Restart and then at the login screen, click on the power icon at the lower right corner and click on shutdown.
That's the only way Windows 8/8.1/10 actually shut's down your pc/laptop/ultra-portable/tablet.

 

Didn't know that. Thanks. I'm for ever learning something here.

 

Yeah, it's dumb that Microsoft didn't let it's customers know that one.
I only found about it through a computer magazine website back after I had upgraded to Windows 8 in 2012.
There's also a ssd speedup trick since Windows 8 that slightly sppeds up bootup times.
For that one you just restart your pc 8 times and don't login until after the 8th restart.
Another tip they didn't provide to their customers.
Again a computer magazine website posted it and from personal experience it works and decreases bootup/startup times by 2-5 seconds.

 

Pressing the Shift key and clicking Shutdown tells the PC to do a full shutdown rather than a hybrid shutdown.

Jim *Cool