hello and welcome to another tutorial from windowslovers.com and
in today's tutorial i'm going to show you how you can upgrade your
windows 7 or windows 8 to windows 10 for free so let's get started
i'm gonna go and upgrade windows 8 installation to windows 10 on this laptop today so the first
thing you will need to do is download windows 10 installation media or media creation tool the
link will be in the description below as well where you can easily download this tool from
as you can see i have already downloaded it but all you're going to do is just go to the link
and click on download tool now so after that's done click on the media creation tool to open it
let's click on yes now as you can see this has opened the windows 10 setup and it says getting
a few things ready give it a few minutes depending on the type of hardware you have
depending if you have a ssd or if you have an older system this might take some time
now it's asking you to accept the terms and conditions click on accept
and now it's again getting a few things ready let's give it a few more minutes now it's
asking you uh do you want to what you want to do upgrade this pc or create installation media
all right so since we're going to upgrade this pc you're going to select the option
upgrades pc but if you want to create an installation media or a portable usb flash drive
then i do have a video on that as well and i'll make sure that it is in the description or in
the cards on the top right corner for this video for the purpose of this video i'm going to click
on upgrade this pc now click on next now what it does it it goes and downloads the windows 10
installation file or the windows 10 iso file first before you go forward so depending on
internet connection this might take some time because the installation file is quite large
and if you are over wi-fi it might take longer if you are an ethernet connection it might be faster
but it all depends um on your internet connection again all right i'm gonna let it download
and we'll continue after the download has been completed and now it's verifying our download
now it says it's creating windows 10 media now says the setup is cleaning up before it closes
and says this might take a few minutes now the installation is starting says preparing windows
now it's checking for updates now it says it's restarting the windows 10 setup so what it does
it goes online and checks if there is any updates to the current iso file that just downloaded
and installs the update so that when you install windows 10 or when you upgrade to windows 10
you have all the latest updates installed and that will save you some time and you don't have
to go ahead and update your windows it will be completely updated so let's give it some time now
the setup has restarted itself now says checking your pc says we're getting a few things ready
all right so it's giving you the terms and conditions you can just click on accept
now it's checking for updates again and it's getting the updates now it also checks if your
pc has enough space for the installation you would require at least 30 gigs of hard drive
space for you to install windows 10 so now it says it's ready to install um tariq have you chosen to
install windows 10 home now this depends on the current version of windows you actually have so
if you have windows 8 or windows 7 pro it will install windows 10 pro the only other option
you have is keep your personal files and apps so you can click on change what to keep and if you
like to completely erase everything or if you like to completely wipe out everything and install
a fresh version of windows 10 just click on nothing and click on next and if you like to
keep your personal files documents and other files that you have then click on key person files only
and but if you like to keep your files and any other third-party applications you could choose
keep personal files and apps so when you're choosing key person files it only keeps your
files while as but it does not keep your any uh third-party installed um applications but
if you choose key personal files and apps it keeps everything all right so what i'm gonna
do is i'm gonna just gonna keep personal files and app since it's an upgrade accept it click on next
and it says making sure you already install it's checking for updates again so it this
checks for updates before the installation and after until after everything is ready
to install as well just to make sure that in the meanwhile you haven't missed any updates
and it's quite frustrating especially if you have a slow computer like i have over here
but it's the part of the process that you have to follow and now finally click on install and
as you can see now it's installing windows uh it says your pc will restart several times and
this might take a while so let us do its thing it might take 10 to 30 minutes depending on
your um hardware that you have like i said if you have ssd drive it it's way quicker but if
it's a older system with traditional hard drive it might take a bit longer but yeah as long as
you have your pc plugged in if you're doing it to your laptop um and if you have your personal
computer it should be all good the windows is gonna restart and now the laptop is restarting
now it says working on updates again let's give it some time it should be okay all right so now
the installation has been completed so i'm gonna go through some of the initial configurations so
i'm just going to hit space bar all right so after everything's done just click and sign
in and enter your microsoft or outlook login details um it can be either hotmail or outlook
the same thing so after you click on login it will take you to your microsoft account login page
all right so you can use your email address to create one
or if you are using a gmail or something else
as a microsoft account you can use that as well so enter the password for that account
submit
now it's asking me to create a pin to click on next and it says welcome
all right so that's how you can upgrade your windows 8 or windows 7 pc
to windows 10 for free if you have any issues please make sure you
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