The fact that Microsoft stopped technical support for Windows 7 in January 2020, you can still upgrade your Windows 7 to Windows 10 for free on the Microsoft web site, and now I'll show you how to do it right. First you need to look at the system requirements of Windows 10 , and compare with the technical components of your computer or laptop.
My computer has a quad-core processor, 16 Gigabytes of RAM, 64-bit operating system, and this will be enough to upgrade my Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, to Windows 10 Professional 64-bit. If you have Windows 7 Home, it will upgrade to Windows 10 Home, Windows 7 32-bit will only upgrade to Windows 10 32-bit.
My Windows is activated, you check the activation of your system, after the update, the activation will remain in place.
All your data, photos, videos, documents, will be saved and remain unchanged, all applications and programs after the update will continue to work in the same mode. The update process takes quite a long time, and if you have a laptop, connect it to the power supply. You should also know that after installing Windows 10, if you do not like the new operating system, within ten days you can cancel all updates and return your Windows 7.
And so, open the update page in the browser, the link click here
this is Microsoft's web page, here you can read the update terms. Please note , that Microsoft still provides the opportunity here to create a bootable USB flash drive or DVD Windows 10, and make a clean installation of Windows on a computer with complete deletion of data, but this is a different topic, today we are considering ,how to update a computer and save all your data.
Now you need to click , Download Tool Now, and a special application is downloaded to your computer, which will download Windows 10 and update your computer. The application has loaded, open the folder, Downloads, and double-click on the shortcut. Preparation for work began. Here you need to accept the license terms, Accept.
In this window, you can choose to create a bootable USB flash drive or DVD, I choose, update the computer, Next. nd the download of Windows 10 to the computer began. Now, for quite a long time, you do not need to do anything about it, the update assistant will download all the files to your computer by itself, you just need to wait for the process to finish so that you can click ,Install ,before installing.
The duration of the process depends on the speed of your Internet and on the capabilities of your computer, for me the whole process lasted about three hours, all the preparation time you can continue to work on the computer.
The preparatory process is completed, close all folders and applications, when you click Install, the installation of Windows 10 will begin. And so, we are ready, click , Install. During the installation, you do not need to do anything, the computer will reboot itself several times.
Please do not turn off your computer. The update ends successfully, we see the words of greeting, and now we need to accept the privacy terms, I don need it, I uncheck all the boxes, and click , Accept. The desktop of the new Windows 10 has opened! Let's look at the specification of the new Windows, open the explorer, right-click this computer, and select properties.
In the new Windows 10 it looks in a new way, here we see that my computer now has the latest version of Windows 10, we also see the shortcuts of all my applications on the desktop, and now we need to check how they work. Yes, everything is okay, the applications work as before.
I open a new Start button. yes, and here, too, everything is different than in Windows 7. Now I will check how the activation of my Windows was saved, click, Start, then, Settings, in the window that opens, I click, Update and Security, Activation, here we see that my system remains activated. And at the end of this topic, I'll show you how to get Windows 7 back if you don't like Windows 10. Click, Recovery, here we see several options to return to Windows 7.
You can only return the old system within ten days by clicking here, Get Started, and then follow the instructions of the system.
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