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Originally Posted by kennyc
Yep.
But you do have to have the right version, home or pro to match the version on the machine to upgrade.
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Maybe more like 64bit or 32bit.
For the install tool methinks it looks at what flavor of windows you have and turns it on. If I recall most all windows iso's have all the features in them. But you need a key to enable them in a upgrade. Then the appropriate downloads will bring things up to date on your system.
Now clean installs I think you do need the appropriate version for your machines hardware, ether 64bit or 32bit. But to do that you do need to load the offered free upgrade download and install it, and I suspect that is when a picture of your systems DNA and what flavor of windows that is installed and is then taken and uploaded and stored on their servers. In a way every computer is unique in its hardware and mac addresses.
Think that done so users can not make an end run and upgrade beyond what their original license gave them.
Kenny I got inspired and went with a bigger usb thumb and another 4gigs of memory, so I can run my machine in dual channel mode...
