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Re: How does Fusion handle Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7?

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Be wary of the "traditional" clean installs of Windows 10 (the don't keep anything option) as there have been

numerous activation issues across all platforms, virtual and real, as what happens is that a generic license

key is generated.  This causes issues with importing virtual machines among other issues with real hardware.

 

At the current time, the safest approach to a clean install is to do a fresh install of Win7, activate it, then perform

the upgrade.

 

I had just seen something recently, not sure if it was truth or not, but an article was claiming that Microsloth

has fixed issues with true clean installs by allowing older OS license keys to be used.  Take this with a grain

of salt as I could not remember nor find that article.

 

FWIW, I did a fresh Win7 install, activated it, applied the Service Pack, and then waited until the myriad of updates

were applied to get to a point were the Windows10 installer would work.  It all did go smooth.  However, need to remember

to both uninstall Fusion Tools and change virtual machine OS type in preferences.


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