Gary K. Are there any plans to offer student discounts on Home Premium in the future? This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question 5. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. There was a student discount on Home Premium for the last two months - it just ended earlier this month.
You just do a custom clean install instead of an in place upgrade. More features for half the price - an offer from true marketing professionals. Custom Clean Install Steps You can use an upgrade disk, but you can't do an in place upgrade. You will have to do a custom clean install that will remove all your programs, but you can save your files and settings to an external storage before doing so.
Also, you'll have to reinstall all your programs. Here are the steps according to Microsoft: 1. Back up your files and settings. To avoid losing anything you'll need to save copies of all the files, photos, and other information you want to keep on to an external hard drive. You might be able to download some programs from the Internet. When asked "Which type of installation do you want? Have Questions About Installing Windows 7? How satisfied are you with this reply? Microsoft offers Windows 7 professional at discounted prices for students of educational institutions in U.
S and several other international countries including U. Microsoft is adding more and more countries to this list. Windows 7 Professional includes all the Home Premium features you love and the business features your work demands. In addition, you can connect to your school network easily using the domain join feature.
You can run many Windows XP productivity programs in Windows XP Mode and recover your data easily with automatic back-ups to your home network. To get windows 7 Professional at discounted prices, you must prove to be a student by fulfilling the following criteria. The windows 7 student discount offers are available for students in U. S and several other international countries. Microsoft is adding more and more countries to this list and you can find whether you are eligible to get windows 7 at cheaper prices by going to this Microsoft page here.
If you are a student of countries other than U. If your educational institution does not offer you an email address, you can check your eligibility for student price, by going to this Microsoft page.
Of course, you can buy a key from Microsoft online, but there are other websites selling Windows 10 keys for less. And does your carefully crafted PC build face any risks? Below we outline the top ways you can get Windows 10 -- from free, to cheap, to most expensive -- and the downsides of each option. Yes, this still works, as a Microsoft rep has confirmed.
If you already have a Windows 7, 8 or 8. You activate it by using the key from one of those older OSes. But note that you can only use a key on a single PC at a time, so if you use that key for a new PC build , any other PC running that key is out of luck. To do this with a Windows compatible PC after backing up your important data, of course download Windows When asked, select " Upgrade this PC now.
Note that if you've recently changed your PC's hardware, such as the motherboard , Windows may not find the license for you device. That means you'll have to reactive the OS. Here are Microsoft's instructions for reactivating Windows 10 after changing PC hardware. When using an older Windows key to activate Windows 10, you may run into complications if Microsoft isn't sure whether you're eligible to update or not. However, that seems to be happening less in recent months and years.
I have colleagues who have used non-activated versions of Windows for years without Microsoft ever shutting it down. Microsoft brands PCs running an unactivated version of Windows 10 with a watermark in the bottom-right corner of the screen. A Microsoft spokesperson told me that activating Windows 10 ensures you have a legitimate copy of Windows 10, and the watermark is an attempt to alert consumers that their version could be false.
However, if you downloaded your ISO directly from Microsoft, there's no way your copy can be a fake. That means you can't choose personal desktop wallpapers, slideshow backgrounds, Start, taskbar, Action Center or title bar colors, light or dark color schemes, font choices or lock screen options. The lack of custom aesthetics can be a downer, especially if you like to liven things up by changing colors and images.
However, we checked, and you can still change your wallpaper if you right-click an image from the web or a personal photo and set it as your wallpaper. And if you have a wallpaper tied to your Microsoft account, it will appear if you sign into Windows with that account. Microsoft offers students attending certain universities and high schools the ability to get Windows 10 for free by allowing them to activate Windows 10 Education for free.
You can see if your school is eligible and download your free Windows 10 key here. The key is yours even after you graduate. But is Windows 10 Education any different from Windows 10 Home?
Windows 10 Education is the same as Windows 10 Enterprise, which Microsoft calls the most robust version of Windows The OS has features targeting security, device control and management and deployment that Windows 10 Home lacks. In addition to ethical concerns, if you get caught, Microsoft can make you pay up anyway. And while some turn to Microsoft for this purchase, there are third-party websites selling keys for much cheaper than Microsoft.
Be sure to check their refund policy before buying. Now, let's address the elephant in the room. While we can't vouch for all of them, websites selling lower-priced Windows keys are likely selling legitimate codes.
One popular site, Kinguin, has 37 merchants worldwide selling Windows keys.
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