Not that it should surprise anybody but I did an upgrade of retail 8.1 pro without any insiders connection and it is permanently activates too.
No backups. I'm going to see if a clean install of 10158 will activate (I'm positive it activated before and was tied to my MSA) and then try to upgrade to 10240 again. With 10162 it says the key has been blocked, so I assume 10158 won't activate and I'll be left out of this until whenever they decide to re-open the insider preview.
That's four or five of you who have now posted successful results upgrading from Win7/8.1 Good stuff.
I have download lp.cab el-gr x64 for w10 10240 if someone want to download send me message to give the link
If I already have 10240 Pro activated on a separate partition, can I upgrade my 8.1 Home to that version since I've been on all the Insiders Builds?
Yes, I do. However, I don't think the activation will stop working. I'm not sure if it will be a new build or a similar build with a patch integrated, but I'm pretty sure we'll get something different.
You can try upgrading to 10 home and then doing the in place upgrade to pro. Don't get mad at me if it doesn't work, tho.
all the en-us hugefile links are up. I'm starting to up to mega, but those will come slowly. Mega up speed is a*s right now.
But a different account, I was trying to figure out if you could do both same account, but I'm playing it safe, and opting out of Insiders on 24th