I am going to upgrade a win 8.1 laptop to win 10. I was just wondering before I do that if there is a way ( like the win 7 anytime upgrade codes) to upgrade the win 8.1 to win 8,1 pro so when I upgrade to win 10 it will be win 10 pro. Gosh I hope that made sense. Also looking for a way to transfer software intact ie office 2013, quickbooks 19.0 mostly ( all legal licensed) . Wondering if there is something like easy transfer that would work for that stuff. Thanks for any help.
that would make life easier in that area. Any leads on how. I am not familiar with win 8 at all. I had to google how to get to the desktop lol
Right click "computer" => properties => click "get more feature with a new edition of windows" => select "I have a product key" , and you enter the key. the upgrade will start at this moment
Just need to find a way to transfer her programs over now. Evidently we don't have the installation software
The upgrade should have all the same software as when on Core, when you now upgrade to 10 Pro it should also take over all software to 10.
That's what i'm hoping for. I saw something about a program that would copy the software and stuff to a external drive I guess, and then allow it to be copied back over to the new os after a clean install. This laptop is kind of slow and I was shooting for a clean install after the upgrade and activation on win 10. I might be over reaching on that. I wish she had the installation software. I don't mind reinstalling for her.
if you're willing to do a clean install so why asking on how to do an upgrade ? If your're noticing slowness problem on your actual win8.1 machine, upgrade will not fix it, it could actually result in greater slowness after the upgrade. regarding Both softwares that you mentionned, no choice but to reinstall them after a clean install.
Thank you. That's probably what I will do. Upgrade to pro went good and is done. Going to make a backup image real quick in case I mess things up with the win 10 upgrade.
@Enthousiast Turns out that upgrade code has been blacklisted. Wouldn't happen to have another one laying around by chance would you?
@sscsr1 The key (-C9WKB) is a generic key so cannot be blacklisted. Try again, enter the key again, the upgrade should start.
It did the upgrade but I left it doing a backup because I had a meeting and there was an activate windows prompt when I got back. But it's ok now I got it activated. Doing the win 10 upgrade now.