Windows 7 Home Premium installation upgraded to Windows 10 PRO

[jiyojolly92]

I used to have a Windows 7 Home Premium which came with my Dell laptop. I became a Microsoft insider to upgrade to a preview version of windows 10. I ran into some problems with that particular build and did a clean installation using the ISO they provided in Microsoft insider site (https://insider.windows.com/) and since then been updating to various builds that came after. Now after Final version came out, I upgraded to the 10240 build and stopped insider builds. I had to restart my PC. Now I am activated with a Windows 10 Pro copy. I have doubts whether this is it or will it expire. Any have any thoughts on this craziness?

Note: I ran slmgr.vbs /dlv and it showed windows activated and no expiry date!!

 

[pankaj981]

Yes it will stay activated as long as you are not performing any major hardware updates to your laptop. Memory upgrade should be okay but a processor or Wi-Fi card replacement might trigger the product key to not activate on your next install. If you wish to perform a clean reinstall then note down the new Windows 10 key using an key finder program (Speccy is good). You should be able to use it for activating a clean OS.

 

[michael nabil]

Me too, I had Windows 8 home, upgraded it to insider preview 10130 and kept upgrading to new builds without clean installing. After public release I stopped insider builds and now I have windows 10 pro. I think it's a gift from ms to insiders