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Perform an in-place upgrade

Perform an in-place upgrade - Windows Tutorial

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Perform an in-place upgrade

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- [Instructor] So you purchased Windows 10 and you have your Windows 10 installation files and are ready to perform an in-place upgrade. An in-place upgrade doesn't require you to create installation media. You can use the installation files you downloaded when you purchased Windows 10. As you can see here, I have a Windows 8.1 Professional machine. I'm going to upgrade it to Windows 10 Professional. To get started, I'll go to the desktop, I'll open file explorer, and I'll locate the downloads folder. This is where I have my files for Windows 10, and I'll double click. I'll double click setup, click yes, and we should get started. The first screen you'll see is about getting updates, drivers, and optional features. That's going to make the installation take a lot longer than we want it to. I'm going to suggest that you leave this selected, but I'm going to go ahead and choose not right now just to speed things up, and I'll click next. Now we can choose our operating system. I'll…

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