Laptop upgrade

J_B

ann_droid said:

Hi
Just a word of caution, the W10 licence does not transfer well.

I've done several in my time and *never* encountered a problem.

Unusre said:

.............. but would it be better to clone the drive ?.

Nooo!

It will just bring across the old carp from your old machine.

Just follow what @HereToday tells you and all will be good

Unusre

Hi.

I am going to follow @HereToday instructions to the letter, should hopefully have it done by Tuesday once the parts arrive, will post the outcome here.

Thanks again for all the great advice from everyone.

JohnB47

I didn't need the licence key myself but I decided to use a little free program to extract it for me, in advance of the upgrade, just in case. It's a simple download and runs in an instant. There are probably tons of programs that do this but I used one called OemKey.

https://neosmart.net/OemKey/

steviebabes

Or you can just paste wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey at the command prompt.

Unusre

Update.

The 4gb of ram arrived this morning and now fitted, i did not realise how easy it was to fit, hopefully the next part goes as well when the ssd arrives.

Thanks again for the help.

Unusre

Update.

The sdd arrived this morning and i have now replaced the old one, i have updated windows and adding the other bits that i want to add.

All seems to be working fine and a lot faster.

Thanks for everyone help and advice.

HereToday

Did you run https://wpd.app/ and apply it's Disable All toggle?