03-12-2019, 11:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-12-2019, 12:14 PM by Mattias Westlund.)
So... heh... I folded.
Against my better judgment I decided to give Win 10 another try. I watched a video where it was mentioned that while the free upgrade period has ended, it is not uncommon that Win 10 can be activated with a valid Win 7 license key. I did run into the login loop issue mentioned previously in this thread, but after some research it turned out all I had to do was restart in Safe Mode and let Windows finish some updates or whatever the heck it was doing that prevented me from logging in properly. After that I restarted and boom -- Windows activated without a single complaint.
And what can I say... it works fine. Actually it works better than fine since 10 is noticably snappier than 7 (which was no slouch to begin with). I've had to de-bloat the OS of course and disable all the telemetry stuff, plus that a lot of things need to be re-authorized, but all that's all to be expected. I'm going to evaluate it for a little while to make sure I don't run into any major deal breaking issues, but so far so good. I'll also need to look into some cosmetic customization options, because the windows being plain white boxes just hurts my eyes.
So I guess I'm part of the Microsoft botnet now. Resistance is futile.
Against my better judgment I decided to give Win 10 another try. I watched a video where it was mentioned that while the free upgrade period has ended, it is not uncommon that Win 10 can be activated with a valid Win 7 license key. I did run into the login loop issue mentioned previously in this thread, but after some research it turned out all I had to do was restart in Safe Mode and let Windows finish some updates or whatever the heck it was doing that prevented me from logging in properly. After that I restarted and boom -- Windows activated without a single complaint.
And what can I say... it works fine. Actually it works better than fine since 10 is noticably snappier than 7 (which was no slouch to begin with). I've had to de-bloat the OS of course and disable all the telemetry stuff, plus that a lot of things need to be re-authorized, but all that's all to be expected. I'm going to evaluate it for a little while to make sure I don't run into any major deal breaking issues, but so far so good. I'll also need to look into some cosmetic customization options, because the windows being plain white boxes just hurts my eyes.
So I guess I'm part of the Microsoft botnet now. Resistance is futile.