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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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Bought a new laptop that will come with 10 Home. Is it possible to easily move to 10 Pro (for free) without getting Jim involved?
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 From:  Dave!!  
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41867.13 In reply to 41867.12 
It would appear yes, but does of course involve paying MS some money.

Personally, I'd Jim it, but then I'm pretty disgusted with how MS have approached the whole ram-Windows-10-down-your-throat mess, so currently I'd rather clean out a septic tank with a toothbrush than give Microsoft some of my money, but hey-ho!
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 From:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)  
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41867.14 In reply to 41867.12 
Neither, go for 7 of 9 instead. Definitely, John.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
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Can't remember the source, but apparently there's a way to download a legit free 10 from MS if you go in through some kind of special accessibility portal/page. So you get a free accessible version which you can then tweak to run like regular version.
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 From:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)  
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41867.16 In reply to 41867.15 
It's the "Accessibility" edition or whatever it's called, pretty easy to find - but that's for upgrading from 7 or 8 to 10, not for going from Home to Pro editions, that's normally a paid-for extra.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
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41867.17 In reply to 41867.16 
Ah.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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Bugger it, straight to ubuntu, I don't like this Dell Win 10 installation.
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 From:  Dave!!  
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Bugger it, straight to ubuntu, I don't like this Dell Win 10 installation.

FTFY :-Y

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
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41867.20 In reply to 41867.18 
What don't you like? We've got 10 on an old Dell SFF here (upgraded from 7 coa) and it seems ok. But we only use it for testing.
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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   
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41867.21 In reply to 41867.20 
I use 10 at work and quite like it.

I think I just lost my patience with the Dell stuff installed that was popping up. Albeit not a lot installed but I'm just used to clean Windows installs with no bloat. I'll probably partition and dual boot 10 Pro sometime soon.

Just need to find a desktop environment that handles HiDPI screens nicely. Could do with some granular scaling.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)  
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41867.22 In reply to 41867.21 
I had to swap in old (& with bad sectors) hdd, format it and clean install 7 pro, then upgraded it to 10 whenever the rc came out. No dell cruft on board.
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