So if you haven't heard the news already Windows 7 is expiring support coming to
end of it's long life now, on January 14 2020 that's less than two
months from now, as of the recording of this video. So what this means, well the
first thing what it doesn't mean is that it's going to stop working or self-destruct.
It can continue to work for you;
however, if something goes wrong, you might be on your own, because of a few
things here; there's no more updates, which means vulnerabilities are not
going to be patched anymore. So you're at risk of hackers and other issues on the
computer; and no one's going to be supporting it anymore because
Microsoft's not supporting it; and it may not activate for you if you have to
reinstall the windows. So you're going to want to update the operating system.
So you stick around I'm going to show you how to get the software and run the
install totally for free all right; coming right up
So the first thing we want to do is go to Microsoft site, and I'll have the link
in the description as well. It'll take you straight to this page where you
can click on the button that says download tool now. Depending on your web
browser you use to download it, it'll have the download available somewhere.
Just open it and click yes for the security for user account control to run it.
A lot of these steps take a while. You'll see Accept on this first screen, and
we want to upgrade this PC. You do have the option of choosing to create media
to update another computer, but you can always use this direct link to update
others directly like this. I've sped up the process like in this particular
section here is at 10 times the speed. So it does take 10 times longer than what
you're seeing here for downloading the windows because it's actually
downloading the entire installation package.
Once it's done downloading it,
it starts creating the media for installation. So you'll see there's quite
a few steps involved in in this.
There'll be a lot of little windows like that.
It actually starts preparing to do the install, and of course it has to get
updates, checking the PC for compatibility, and then it goes to a
screen for the license you have to accept.
So you can see it's fairly straightforward so far.
It then goes online to check for any other additional
updates now that it's checked out your computer.
Drivers and stuff like that.
Then at this point it's ready to install. You could click to check what to keep,
but usually it's all fine and you can just click install.
At this point now,
it's gonna take what seems like forever to do this install. It's at your entire
screen is blue like it shows here and it counts through the percentage; and I've
even got this at 10 times the speed. So it does take a lot longer than what
you're seeing running here on this particular video, but I've sped through
it so that you don't have to sit and wait for it.
This is the most part of it. Once this is done, it's going to go into
rebooting the computer. Then when it reboots it's going to ask you a bunch of
questions. So we'll see that in just a moment.
So after it reboots, its gonna
come back up and your entire screen is gonna be blue changing colors like this,
telling you it might take several minutes. Well yeah, no kidding.
We got this sped up as well.
It may be just a few minutes like possibly five minutes or less,
depending on the speed of your computer.
Then it's gonna ask you this series of questions.
Now you can read them. You can click on the button to
learn more, or just choose one and hit accept. If you're not sure which one to
choose. It doesn't matter what you choose, it's a personal preference, but for
privacy you can just choose the second option of the two, because there's always
two options. So just choose the second one for each one and then click accept.
Unless you want to choose the first one. You can read them and click learn more.
That's it. It comes to your desktop, it opens up a web browser, and you'll see
some pop-up showing they're adding new features to Windows, and that will run
for a couple of minutes. There may be things like the printer here popping up,
that the printer got wiped out because it's not compatible with Windows and
other things. So the printer is something you might want to check out at least and
make sure that it's still working, and if it's not you may have to go to the
manufacturers website. Like if it's an HP printer go to hp.com and download the
printer driver. Now if you right click on your Start button and go to system;
we can check and see here that your operating system has actually been
upgraded. You may have to scroll down a bit and you'll see here the windows
Edition is Windows 10 Pro. If you go down further you'll see a link for system
info, which takes you to the traditional-style looking's window;
and that tells you on here as well, that it is activated and it is Windows 10 Pro.
So that's pretty much it.
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