How to Install/Upgrade Windows 10

Full and official version of the world most awaited Operating System, Windows 10 made its debut today as expected and I can tell you that Windows fans across the globe welcomed it with cheer!

Now that Windows 10 is available, how can you upgrade to Windows 10?

As you might have known by now, Microsoft is offering Windows 10 free of charge to all for the first one year, so you have from now till 29^th of July 2016 to get your free copy of Windows 10.

Today, we are going to be showing you the simple steps you can take to upgrade yours compatible system to Windows 10.

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We have said it before that you can only upgrade to Windows 10 freely if your old desktop or tablet PC is running Windows 7 or above version of Windows, otherwise you have to purchase Windows 10 for installation.

You should note at this point that Windows 10 will be rolling out in badges to individuals and will finally go round as time goes on, so here is how to upgrade to Windows 10;

First of all for those that participated in the Windows Insider Program, you need not to do anything again as your copies are already rolling out and by now you should have been getting the notifications to install Windows 10.

Then for those that did not participate in the Window 10 Insider program, this is how you will install Windows;

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= => First of all you need to Reserve a copy of Windows 10

= => After you have done that, you don’t need to do anything again until the day you will get a notification from Microsoft prompting you to Install Windows 10

= => Here, I know that what will be going on in your mind is that the whole Windows 10 download files you have heard about is about 3GB+ in size and you might want to know whether the total files will be available for you on the day of notification to download them all at once before installation.

But good a thing is that Microsoft has made everything a lot easier this time around, for you do not have to worry much about the download in that manner and that is the essence of reserving your Windows 10 copy.

What will happen is this, when you Reserve a copy of Windows 10, from that day on, Microsoft will start preparing your full downloadable copies for your system and will be delivering the downloads to your system gradually as update.

Now anything you get online with your system, updates of Windows 10 will be getting downloaded gradually at the background without you even knowing.

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The day the download gets completed, and your system is ready to install Windows 10, Microsoft will then notify you to install Windows then, which you can choose to carry out the installation immediately or postpone it to a later and convenient time for yourself.

= => At this point before the Installation, as a good practice which is never compulsory, it is advisable to backup all your files and apps to an external drive.

= => Now talking about the Installation when you finally gets the notification on your system by Microsoft, you don’t need to be a tech expert before you can proceed with the installation; just the normal intuitive dialog boxes at certain point in the installation for you to click on Next to continue till the end of the process.

The Installation time, will take about 20 minutes or more as the case may be.

After everything, you will then get to see the newly Installed Windows 10 with the new Start up button and other features it offers.