Stop asking for keys people, its easy af:1. Install Windows2. Update Windows3. When it asks for product key, disable the alert4. It wont bother/ask you again coz there are no updates since 20155. Leave the updates enabled so it wont ask you to turn them on and hide it from taskbar
I have a Dell 2300 demenition. Came with xp home, but outdated. I did all the proper things and fixes to upgrade it to Windows 7 ultimate 32bit, please help with a working product key. Thanks for your time.
Windows 7 Product Key 2017
Some months ago, upon launching VS 2017 Community on a system running Windows 7 Home Premium, the following message came up (notwithstanding that the Community Edition is not a licensed product, and has no associated product key): "License: 30 day trial (for evaluation purposes only) Your evaluation period has ended." Your evaluation period has ended. Please sign in to unlock the product."
Besides, do you use a firewall or proxy server? It may be blocking sign-in. Please refer to the following link and add some URLs to an allowlist: -us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-studio-2017/install/install-and-use-visual-studio-behind-a-firewall-or-proxy-server?view=vs-2017
So, I set a restore point and then installed the entirety of Windows 7 updates... this with some hesitation, as a number of them are arguably unnecessary, if not actually doing more harm than good. In any case, after rebooting the updated Windows 7, VS 2017 CE successfully installed and launched flawlessly!
I'm not going to bother tracking down which of the update(s) were required and which ones weren't... that would be a very tedious process, and at this point I'm just glad to have a coding environment again. But it would be extremely handy if the VS 2017 installer would query the Windows 7 system configuration and alert the user if an update was required. Indeed, when I installed VS 2019 on my Windows 10 partition, the installer did exactly that, immediately saying it couldn't proceed without additional updates to Windows 10. A similar check in the VS 2017 installer would have saved an enormous amount of grief.
Initially, the caveat was that users needed to do the upgrade first, before doing a clean install. Then the Windows 10 November Update introduced a new change to allow the installer to accept valid Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 product keys to activate without prior upgrade.
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You can also still upgrade Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro by using a product key from a previous business edition of Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 (Pro/Ultimate). That can save you as much as $100 in OEM upgrade charges if you buy a new PC with Windows 10 Home preinstalled. (For details, see "How to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Pro without hassles.")
I wrote and published the first version of this post in early 2017, shortly after Microsoft's initial free upgrade offer ended. When I downloaded the Windows 10 upgrade tool and ran it on an old Windows 7 PC, I fully expected that the upgrade would fail activation and I'd be asked for a product key.
For the past five-plus years, I have repeated those steps on test PCs at regular intervals and confirmed that the free upgrade tool still works. I continue to receive email messages regularly from readers offering firsthand reports that their free upgrades were successful, with no purchase or product key required.
Then just follow the prompts to complete the upgrade to Windows 10. You will not be asked for a product key, and when the upgrade is complete and you've connected to the internet, you'll have a digital license that is valid for the most recent Windows 10 version, which you can confirm by going to Settings > Update & Security > Activation. All your apps and data files will be available.
The digital license is associated with that specific device, which means you can reformat the disk and perform a clean installation of the same edition of Windows 10 anytime. (If you're thinking of upgrading your old system drive to an SSD, perform the upgrade to Windows 10 on the old hardware; after confirming that the new Windows 10 version is properly activated, install the SSD and then either restore from a backup image or boot from the USB flash drive to do a clean install. You won't need a product key, and activation is automatic.)
That's very odd language. The free upgrade through the Get Windows 10 app ended on July 29, 2016. Likewise, the discussion of product keys says a key will be necessary "for this tool to work" (not true) but doesn't say a word about licensing.
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