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ScottyOldPc

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Hi guys, any advice would be appreciated,

Here is my plan to avoid a clean install of Windows 10 from Vista.

I have a PC running on Windows Vista and have just purchased a product key of Windows 10. I have found out I cannot upgrade to windows 10 directly, so here is my plan.

Upgrade to windows 7 (without using a code as I do not have one) then using the upgrade tool on the Microsoft website to install windows 10.

Will a non registered version of windows 7 allow me to upgrade to windows 10 (with a key)
I think I have explained what I intend to do well enough.

Anybody tried to do this or can advise please???

Many thanks!
 
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Barty1884
Honestly, even if that 'could' work (I don't believe you can simply 'upgrade' to W7 from Vista these days, but could be wrong), it's likely to be buggy as.
You'll likely end up having to reinstall Windows 10 and format to fix the bug issues - so you'd be better off just starting with that.

Even W7 or W8.1 to W10 can present issues along the way (high CPU or Disk usage, network issues etc), so adding Vista to the mix is likely to complicate things even further.
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Honestly, even if that 'could' work (I don't believe you can simply 'upgrade' to W7 from Vista these days, but could be wrong), it's likely to be buggy as.
You'll likely end up having to reinstall Windows 10 and format to fix the bug issues - so you'd be better off just starting with that.

Even W7 or W8.1 to W10 can present issues along the way (high CPU or Disk usage, network issues etc), so adding Vista to the mix is likely to complicate things even further.
 
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There is no direct upgrade from Win Vista to Win 10. No matter what you have purchased.
This will be a full wipe and reinstall.

Vista to unactivated Win 7 to Win 10 won't work either. And even if it did, you'd be dragging along WAY too much old crap from the Vista install.

Time to suck it up and start clean. Your PC will thank you for this.

Added: This goes double if your existing Vista is 32bit, which is likely. You really want a 64bit Win 10.
There is no possibility of an inplace upgrade of 32bit to 64bit, no matter which OS we are talking about.
 
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