I have a dual boot Win7 & Win10 but ????

[Guest]

I have just made dual boot windows of win 7 (primary) & Win 10 & it says it has been activated.

Does this mean it has read they key from my win7 partition & this is my valid free copy of windows 10 ???

The license agreement says so but I am not too sure as I just installed win 10 as a tester to see what software of myne will not work on it but I am pleased that I can still use my win 7 copy.

Can anyone give me an answer ?

 

[USAFRet]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

 

[Guest]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

Well I downloaded the file using that program via my email last week, in fact i am using it now not keen on the web browser or graphics, my mb has super quick shutdown in case of a fault & all I want to know is what it will cost to buy up to date software to suit my needs.

I am suprised that is has a built in iso mounting software which is great from my point of view as that how I load everything in from the same iso copy point, if you get what I mean.

where will it tell me that it is an insider copy as so far it just says activated & it is Win10 home edition I installed ?

 

[USAFRet]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

Well I downloaded the file using that program via my email last week, in fact i am using it now not keen on the web browser or graphics, my mb has super quick shutdown in case of a fault & all I want to know is what it will cost to buy up to date software to suit my needs.

I am suprised that is has a built in iso mounting software which is great from my point of view as that how I load everything in from the same iso copy point, if you get what I mean.

where will it tell me that it is an insider copy as so far it just says activated & it is Win10 home edition I installed ?

In the bottom right corner, is there a version number?
Did you install it with a MS account?

To buy Windows 10? $100
Or Update your existing Win 7 for free.

 

[Guest]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

Well I downloaded the file using that program via my email last week, in fact i am using it now not keen on the web browser or graphics, my mb has super quick shutdown in case of a fault & all I want to know is what it will cost to buy up to date software to suit my needs.

I am suprised that is has a built in iso mounting software which is great from my point of view as that how I load everything in from the same iso copy point, if you get what I mean.

where will it tell me that it is an insider copy as so far it just says activated & it is Win10 home edition I installed ?

In the bottom right corner, is there a version number?
Did you install it with a MS account?

To buy Windows 10? $100
Or Update your existing Win 7 for free.

There is no version number anywhere (that would only appear there is it was not a genuine copy ???) I can see as info just says win 10 home & is genuine activation not a time trial or a tester ?

 

[USAFRet]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

Well I downloaded the file using that program via my email last week, in fact i am using it now not keen on the web browser or graphics, my mb has super quick shutdown in case of a fault & all I want to know is what it will cost to buy up to date software to suit my needs.

I am suprised that is has a built in iso mounting software which is great from my point of view as that how I load everything in from the same iso copy point, if you get what I mean.

where will it tell me that it is an insider copy as so far it just says activated & it is Win10 home edition I installed ?

In the bottom right corner, is there a version number?
Did you install it with a MS account?

To buy Windows 10? $100
Or Update your existing Win 7 for free.

There is no version number anywhere (that would only appear there is it was not a genuine copy ???) I can see as info just says win 10 home & is genuine activation not a time trial or a tester ?

I know that pre-July 29, the Insider Program installs had the version number in the bottom right of your screen
I also know there is no actual 'free' outside of being a participant in the Insider Program or Upgrading from a qualifying OS.
I am unsure of where to check that in current Insider Preview installs

 

[Guest]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

Well I downloaded the file using that program via my email last week, in fact i am using it now not keen on the web browser or graphics, my mb has super quick shutdown in case of a fault & all I want to know is what it will cost to buy up to date software to suit my needs.

I am suprised that is has a built in iso mounting software which is great from my point of view as that how I load everything in from the same iso copy point, if you get what I mean.

where will it tell me that it is an insider copy as so far it just says activated & it is Win10 home edition I installed ?

In the bottom right corner, is there a version number?
Did you install it with a MS account?

To buy Windows 10? $100
Or Update your existing Win 7 for free.

There is no version number anywhere (that would only appear there is it was not a genuine copy ???) I can see as info just says win 10 home & is genuine activation not a time trial or a tester ?

I know that pre-July 29, the Insider Program installs had the version number in the bottom right of your screen
I also know there is no actual 'free' outside of being a participant in the Insider Program or Upgrading from a qualifying OS.
I am unsure of where to check that in current Insider Preview installs

I have just figured it out from your help as at one point I had 3 gen license keys for win 7, one of them was quased for win 7 & my email hotmail so that is why I have a gen home edition as the win 7 on the same drive is a different key & I am not activationg win 10 to an email on that so thank for you help

 

[jperlowski]

If you are using Windows 10 in the Insider Program, then what you are doing is "OK".

It has not messed with your original Windows license.
However...The Insider Program brings significant drawbacks over the actual 'free' Upgrade from your Windows 7.

-In effect, you are a permanent beta tester. Whatever new features they want to push and test, you get them. You cannot opt out of that. If it breaks something, too bad, so sad...
-The user data that is sent back to MS is even more than the normal release version.

It is a test install, not a permanent free install.
If you wish to opt out of the Insider Program, you must either roll back to Win 7 and Upgrade, buy a Windows 10 license and activate it, or roll back to Win 7 and just use that.

 

[CountMike]

Run "winver" to tell you what and which licenses you have.