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Though if I still had my Windows 8 installation, I could have updated to 10 for free anyway.
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I still find it incredible and surprising that Microsoft have allowed this. Apparently you can still use Windows 10 with no restrictions (fetch updates, etc.) even without activation the only downside is that you cannot personalise your settings and there’s a watermark on the bottom right of your screen that reminds you to activate Windows. I was about to give up but later found out that I can install and use Windows 10 without a key. However, the Windows 7 installer did not accept this as a valid key for whatever reason. While I no longer have my Windows 7 installation disk, I still have the key since it is on a sticker that is stuck on my desktop. However, I later found out that I had only purchased an “upgrade key”, which meant that I could not use it with a fresh installation. I had previously purchased a Windows 8 key, so I thought I’ll download an ISO and create my own installation disk. Firstly, I no longer have the Windows 7 installation disk that came with my desktop. This post is on how I set up my Windows desktop for bioinformatics in 2019.īefore I begin I’d just like to briefly share my experience of re-installing Windows because I ran into several problems. Recently, I re-installed Windows and have been quite impressed with its usability. Since then, my interaction with the Windows operating system has been minimal. A few years later, I wiped my Windows installation from my home desktop computer and replaced it with Ubuntu. I had switched over to the Mac operating system (Mac OS X) for work when my HP laptop was replaced with a MacBook Air sometime in 2012. This is an update on my original post Setting up Windows for bioinformatics that I wrote in 2011.