So about 2 years ago I purchased a prebuilt Dell Inspiron Desktop at Best Buy(for shame i know, this was before i learned how to build computers) and it came preloaded with windows 8 64-bit. Not sure what version, but it came with the full Microsoft office suite for a year. Fast forward to present day and Windows 10 was just released, I didn't get the notification to upgrade to it for free, so i thought maybe if i went to windows 8.1 first then maybe it would let me upgrade. So I activated the "add new features to windows" wizard and clicked on i already have product key. I copy and pasted a VBscript i found online and ran it to find my windows key. copy and pasted it into the text box and it said "this key won't work. Check it and try again." then i put the code in manually, multiple times and still didn't work. I read that some newer pre built machines store the key in the motherboard UEFI Bios so maybe the key i was getting from the script wasn't right? maybe my version of windows that i got from dell isn't eligible for upgrade? Im not so sure what to do, any help would be great
TL;DR Im trying to get windows 10 on a pre built dell windows 8 desktop but the license key that was displayed by a VBscript isn't working
TL;DR Im trying to get windows 10 on a pre built dell windows 8 desktop but the license key that was displayed by a VBscript isn't working