Clean Win10 install after upgrade. Any activation issues?

gizmo1990

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I'm about ready to upgrade a win7 pc to 10 after backing up everything. Hopefully it will go smoothly and I'll get away with activation being free with my win7 serial.

Given that all goes well, I'll be reinstalling the os as a fresh install soon after. I would guess that the activation this time is handled by win10 going online and checking my activation status via update against any code generated via my pcs parts? So basically I don't need to do anything else?

Can anyone confirm if this is the case or if there are any gotchas I might be missing? Basically, I don't want to screw anything by doing a clean install (deleting my old version and any codes ms is using to validate the software) after the update.

Any advice much appreciated.
 
All installed ok. I presume it activated ok, it says under Activation: Windows is activated with a digital license.

Do I have to link my Microsoft account? I'm not bothered with syncing etc. If I now do a clean install of 10, how will my license be saved?
 
Thanks for the replies everyone. I upgraded first because I wasn't sure which of the 3 win7 keys I have was associated to the pc. Like an idiot I forgot to write down which was which.:rolleyes:

So just to be clear, if I wipe my system drive and clean install, I won't get asked to enter a win7 activation key? The digital license will be re-activated once the os is installed and connected to the net? And it'll do that by checking ms servers for some kind of code unique to my setup, which was generated by the initial upgrade?
 
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