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How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC

                                      How to Install Windows 10 on Your PC  




·  Step 1: Download the Windows 10 ISO image from Microsofts web site. Alternatively you can download the web installer from the same page and just choose to upgrade your PC, which is the easiest option.


·  Step 2: If you are installing on a regular PC with Windows already on it, youll be prompted immediately to start the upgrade process. Alternatively, you can burn it to an optical disk orcreate a bootable USB flash drive. Otherwise, just attach the ISO image using the virtual machine software of your choice (assuming your virtual machine already has Windows 7 or 8 installed).


·  Step 3: Install it mostly by clicking the Next button, making sure to choose Upgrade when prompted. If you want to clean install, follow our clean install instructions instead.


·  Note: Now that Windows 10 is released, youre going to need a valid Windows license key for 7, 8, or 8.1 in order to perform the upgrade.


For posterity, here are all of the installation steps if youre booting from a flash drive, although you could just remember the word Next and get through it fine. Just remember to choose Upgrade when prompted unless youve previously upgraded and activated Windows 10 on this computer.When you first boot the computer youll see a screen like this one:






Click Next and youll be taken to the Install now button screen. Which obviously you should click.



At this point you can choose whether you want to upgrade Windows or install a new custom install. Since were recommending that everybody install into a virtual machine or on a test PC, you should select Custom here.Update: You should probably choose to Upgrade the first time, because the license key might not work otherwise.






At this point youll need to pick where to install Windows 10. You might need to delete or create a partition, but if you are using a virtual machine, you can just click Next.





   And now it will install.


Once the PC reboots again, youll be able to select the settings like whether Windows Updates are enabled (they arent allowed to be disabled in the preview). Wed recommend just using the express settings if you are using a test machine use Custom if youre really going to use the computer.


And now you can sign into your Microsoft account. Wed recommend using a Microsoft account because otherwise you wont be able to use half of the new features and you may as well use Linux or stick with Windows 7.


If youve setup your account properly youll probably be asked to verify it in the middle. We excluded those steps from this article, but they are pretty simple.Now youll be asked how to setup the PC. Since we wanted to test everything as a new computer, we chose to set it up as a new PC instead, but you could copy all your settings from another computer if you wanted to.


Want to use OneDrive? Its nicely integrated into Windows, so we just left it alone.


And now a colorful screen that tells us things are happening.


And finally, we are at the desktop! Note that the desktop on the full release of Windows 10 looks different, and this screenshot came from a pre-release version.




Now click that Start button. Click it. You know you want to.






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