Move W10 licence to different machine

Undervalued

I have desktop which is running (well walking!) W10. It was upgraded from W7 during the free period. However it is not really powerful enough to be of much use.

I have been given a somewhat higher spec machine which is currently running W7. Can I deactivate the first machine (which I am intending to scrap) then install and use the W10 licence on the newer box?

Thanks

Gloomendoom

If you created a Microsoft account when you upgraded and sign into it after installing W10 on the new machine it should work without you having to deactivate anything.

It worked for me.

Onlythebest

No need, you can still 'upgrade' the new machine to Windows 10 for free to this day.

Out of interest, what spec the old machine?

forgotmyname

Yep the windows 10 upgrade still works. I have just built a new desktop PC and used a windows 7 laptop serial which had not been updated to win 10.

Installed win10 and the serial worked fine.

I_have_spoken

You just need to self-identity you are disabled to get the free upgrade

Jivesinger

I_have_spoken wrote: »

You just need to self-identity you are disabled to get the free upgrade

I believe the upgrade from Windows 7 still works without needing to do that.

wongataa

Undervalued wrote: »

I have desktop which is running (well walking!) W10. It was upgraded from W7 during the free period. However it is not really powerful enough to be of much use.

I have been given a somewhat higher spec machine which is currently running W7. Can I deactivate the first machine (which I am intending to scrap) then install and use the W10 licence on the newer box?

Thanks

Not without going against the terms of the license. The Win10 licence is tied to the motherboard of the machine it is installed on.

forgotmyname

I_have_spoken wrote: »

You just need to self-identity you are disabled to get the free upgrade

Nope. I just installed windows 10 from the MS website and inserted the WIN 7 serial and it worked.

I posted where it didnt work previously but it seems i was putting an 8 where it was actually a B in the serial. My excuse is it was slightly faded and smudged nothing to do with me getting old

But nothing was required. I was going to use the links to assisted technology but it was not required.