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However, it seems (at least as of 27 Nov 2019) you can use your Win7 or Win8 product key to activate an upgrade or fresh install of Win 10.
If you don't remember your existing key, you can retrieve it using ProduKey[^] (free).
/ravi
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Thanks for posting. It may help others! 
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But.. why upgrade now? When you resisted for so long!
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Quote: When you resisted for so long!
I did not resist. I upgraded very soon after 10 became available. I posted this message for those who did resist and possibly regret it now.
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Windows 7 forever!!!
Some of our PCs in the lab are running XP just fine. But they're sandboxed, not on the interwebs net.
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Slightly off topic
I have just rebuilt a PC using the downloadable 'raw' Windows 10 ISO image. The rebuild was because the old disc was corrupt (user's AppData was linked to itself so could never find the end of folder chains) and I couldn't find anything that could recover it. Somehow the Windows 10 ISO image was able to find the original OEM licence on the corrupt disk and activated the new install automatically.
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I believe that every Windows machine has a unique ID, that is not stored on the system disk. This ID gets registered with Microsoft the first time Windows 10 is activated. Subsequent rebuilds, including replacement of the disk, will not affect the activation status of Windows. I have always found that you can replace the system disk freely, and rebuild Windows, without losing your activation status.
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A quick hint if you are still feeling recalcitrant.
Make an image backup of your Windows 7 - (if you're running Windows 8 stop reading this and take up knitting).
Follow the upgrade process.
Don't bother signing up for a Microsoft Account if you don't have one.
Run the Windows 10 for an hour or so
Re-install your Windows 7 from the backup image.
Your 'machine ID' is now known to Microsoft and you can do a clean install of Windows 10 from an ISO (or an in-place upgrade if you're daring) whenever you want.
I have done this with several machines - no fuss, no serial requested.
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Have you tried what Ravi suggested above?
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Note that Windows 10 is not compatible with some older machines. I also have a laptop that refused to run Windows 10 from the days when it first came out.
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Thanks.
A warning though about that old laptop.
There is no non-PAE version of Windows 10.
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I notice when I watch TV scenes from the British Commons a large number of deputies standing.
Is it a case that there are not enough actual seats for everyone wins one?
Or is this phenomonon just to get a head-start on the rush to the bar afterwards?
Ger
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I suspect they have taken most of 'em home "on expenses". 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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They are probably suffering from hemorrhoids 
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I thought MP's were hemorrhoids? THey are certainly a PITA ... 
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Hear, hear, mumble, mumble 
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Two pints of lager, and a packet of crisps, please.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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The number of MPs has grown over time, while the size of the meeting chamber has not, so it is possible that this is the case.
There are also arcane rules regarding MPs who enter the chamber in the middle of a debate. IIRC, They must wait near the entrance until given permission by the Speaker to take their seats.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Arcane, or just good manners? (Not that being late is good manners anyway, but then disturbing the debate whilst making your way to a seat compounds the insult).
There is not enough space for everyone (around 427 seats for 650 MPs, and it was even rebuilt this way after war damage), but:
1. It's pretty rare for everyone to be present anyway, except maybe for state occasions or really important and close-run debates
2. There are more MPs than when the Chamber was originally designed...
3. ... and people have got bigger since then, too. (For one thing, there are now many many female MPs who tend to have wider hips)
However it's not unusual to see them really crammed in, especially on the front benches; one can't help but think that the crush must both distract from concentrating on the issues at hand, and also hurry things along to some extent.
It's not unusual for MPs to spend debate time in other locations, and only attend when the division bell is rung. This is why there is a "repeater" bell in several nearby pubs - so long as they're within an 8-minute dash.
I did laugh at the OP's terminology of "deputies". Technically of course they are deputised to represent their constituents, but most of them would never consider themselves to be deputy to anyone!!
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Deputy is the Irish coming out in me. It's an alternative term for our members of parliament, officially a Teachta Daila or TD. We would use it where the British might use Right Honourable or Honourable Gentleman - not sure which, perhaps both
Ger
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DerekT-P wrote:
... and people have got bigger since then, too. (For one thing, there are now many many female MPs who tend to have wider hips)
Her underwear looked like a dress for someone with two waists?
CQ de W5ALT
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Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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That's deput-exit. They want to leave, may be not. So they just stand there while others wait for them to do something.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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