It's about bloody time . never seen such a hight post count in such a short time of joining. By way of trolling, premoting his aio images and using bud .... And he was warned.
technically it inserts a place-holder key that all upgrades get (some with a different key for whatever reason). the 3V66T key when you check slmgr /dlv is on win7 pro upgrades to 10 pro and win8.1 pro upgrades to 10 pro. Not sure if home is different key. Anyway, the place-holder key is used to say "hey I got the free upgrade" to MS. That is why you can skip it, nobody afaik are going to get a personal free "upgrade key" to call MS if their MOBO explodeedohs the day after the 1 year is up.
I'm sure upgrade will auto detect it, I upgraded 2 images with the OEM thread off Faikee's one was Win 8.1 Pro, it auto detected it was Retail copy and gave me upgraded Win 10 Pro, plus I signed out of Insider thing, just playing, upgraded 10240 non insider anymore, Gave me Win 10 Pro, activated, I would think it would have given me Home version if that was what I needed, no back sliding now, please, lol
He's right. Nothing will change on the 29th. Anyone to say otherwise doesn't know what they're really talking about and hasn't analysed how the activation system actually works. It's all just FUD. Please don't keep posting the "what if" or "this is going to happen" type comments without an actual source that shows that it will definitely happen on or after the 29th. You're creating fear, uncertainty and doubt for some people here and that's only going to make our (the MDL moderators) jobs harder. Just wait until the 29th to see if you were wrong?
Sounds like you found something??? The only thing I can state with some measure of confidence @ this stage: Upgrade via ISO can be done offline. The Activation state of the qualifying OS is stored locally during upgrade. On activation then the HW# appears to be stored on the MS Activation Server against an otherwise blocked key.