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I very much doubt that your contract doesn't have a notice period. You don't have to walk out on the spot -- find another job, first.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Most (okay, all) of you are better versed in the mysteries of MS Marketing than I, so I pose a question to the group. We have until July 29th to take advantage of the free Win10 upgrade offer, then we have to pay retail, as I understand it. But suppose I burn an .iso of the installation today, and don't get around to installing it on an existing Win7 machine until October. Will it work without buying a new product key?
Inquiring minds want to know. Besides, I don't want to "upgrade" until I get a full backup to run, and neither Backup, nor Acronis True Image will run reliably on this machine. I want to resolve that issue before doing the changeover.
Any definitive opinions on this licensing issue?
Will Rogers never met me.
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modified 28-Jun-16 21:29pm.
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modified 28-Jun-16 21:29pm.
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Never assume with computers - they will turn round and bite your a** off! 
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That's why I keep asking questions before I do anything. I've been doing programming and hardware design since 1975, sometimes as a paid job, sometimes as a hobby, but I'll never know everything. And I learned early on not to assume anything!!!
Will Rogers never met me.
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From what I understand, no.
It's not the ISO that is registered with MS, but your precise PC configuration (IIRC it's the PC / motherboard serial numbers that they use) - and once that PC has been upgraded it's allowed to reinstall without a key for it's life. You are at liberty to reverse the Win 10 ungrade and go back to Win7, but you can install Win10 at any point from then.
So no - burning an ISO won't help you.
Do a good backup - as most people here know (because I keep on banging on about it) I use AOMEI Backupper and it works brilliantly for me. If you can't get backups to run reliably, then I'd seriously look at the PC - good backups are the most important part of any computer! But...you can just take the HDD out, add it to another machine as a second drive, and image it via backup software from there. Restore is the reversal of that process.
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's not the ISO that is registered with MS, but your precise PC configuration
... Which is one of the reasons why no-one outside the USA should even contemplate installing the downgrade.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Others have already answered the question, but I thought I'd recommend this:
0: Find an empty HDD. (I highly recommend SSD if you can) Yank your current OS drive and replace it with this one.
1: Install Win7 fresh using your current license and spend half a day installing updates. Don't install any other software. Make sure you re-register this fresh Win7 installation.
2: Eventually, you will get the upgrade to 10 offer. Accept it as you have nothing to lose at this point.
3: After Win10 upgrade is done you can start adding your software back.
At this point you have Win10 or Win7 depending on which drive you have plugged in! 
This has worked great for me since Dec. of last year. I've only had to go back to my Win7 drive a couple of time and it still works just fine...just much slower than the new SSD!  Good luck!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Sounds like a good solution, and I've been wanting an excuse to buy a SSD for a while now. Just ordered one from Amazon (Crucial MX300 750GB), and I should have it tomorrow. Now where did I put that Win7 CD?
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You don't need it - get a copy of AOMEI Partition Assistant (the free version is fine) and it has an "Migrate OS to SSD" wizard which does all the work for you. Took about 30 mins on my system and I have had no problems whatsoever since. If you keep your apps and data on separate partitions on the HDD (as I did) then you can also use it later to expand the data partition to fill the whole HDD
AOMEI Partition Assistant[^]
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Thanks for that - I can't find the original CD, dagnabit!
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Let alone the box with the key code...I know the feeling!
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That's actually easy; the free tool, Belarc Advisor, reports the key codes of everything installed. 
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I'm planning something similar. I currently have W7 sitting on a NVMe SSD, and a huge SSHD for data and stuff. I now purchased another SSD, this time a simple SATA drive. Since W7 doesn't take full advantage of the NVMe drive I will copy it over to the SATA drive, then remove it and upgrade the existing NVMe drive to W10.
After that, I can choose to disable the W10 partition in BIOS until I feel like 'upgrading'.
I've also thought to keep the W10 partition active and effectively run a dual boot system, but I'm not sure that would be legal with just one license. Technically, since I have W7 Pro (and would then upgrade to W10 Pro), I would have the right to downgrade any time later. So, when running W10 for any amount of time, I would have the right to switch back to 7. But, do I have the right to always keep that W7 installation ready? I feel I should be allowed to, but I don't feel like digging through the heaps of legalize that are the MS licensing conditions.
Anyone in the know? Can I run a dual boot W7/W10 Pro system with just one license?
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Griff made a manual for how to do the upgrade as painless as possible, I can't be arsed to find it just now, but it should be searchable.
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Weird. My photocopier is full of peanut butter. Usually, it jams.
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We had a jam session last night. But the neighbours went nuts!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Try to preserve your sanity.
That's what I do. I drink, and I know things. ~ Tyrion Lannister
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With the right tools printing is a piece of cake.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I thought of the very same scene when I read the OP
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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You have to make certain that the paper is pectin there the right way.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Weirder, my squirrels prefer caviar over peanuts/peanut butter. So, no jam in my copier.
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