

You have a license to install Windows 10 and are upgrading this PC from Windows 7 or Windows.I would suspect however that they merely want to remove the Assistive Technologies installer because its Build 14393 (Version 1607) and it reaches End of Life soon. The Assistive Technologies upgrade may officially end however as I've said all along for Microsoft to break Windows 10 activation mechanisms will likely lead to far more hassle for them than it solves. Genuine Ticket copied over and computer restarted. Windows 10 Home (Version 1709) Installed using a Windows 7 Home Premium Product Key on an Inspiron 560. also tested on 07/08/16 with video recording here: Windows 7 Pro key input post-installation. Windows 10 Pro (Version 1709) installed without a key and online (not activated) on OptiPlex 790. Windows 10 installed without a key and online (not activated). Tested Last Week on new hardware**** still works. After clean install the genuineticket.xmlcould be copied to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\ClipSVC\GenuineTicket and Windows would be activated after a restart. They could then clean install Windows 10 without a product key. Then could then generate a genuineticket.xml. (A subset of Activation Mechanism 1 useful for faded COAs) Since Build 10240 one could copy GatherOSState.exe from the sources folder of the installation. Tested on the ** and *** still works.Īctivation Mechanism 3. Clean Installations with Windows 7 OEM Keys or Windows 8.x OEM Keys worked since Build 10586 (Version 1511). Tested Last Week on new hardware* still works.Īctivation Mechanism 2. In any case it was complained about and Microsoft removed this update consequently the normal Media Creation Tools can be used for Initial Upgrade Installs (no workarounds required). This could be circumvented by not searching for updates during the Upgrade Install. There was about 2 weeks where the Upgrade Install of Build 14393 (Version 1607) searched for an update that prompted for a Windows 10 only key. iso worked since Build 10240 (Version 1507). Upgrade Installs using the Media Creation Tool or launching the setup from the.
