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I have a Dell laptop that I had been using as a platform for testing and trying out every type of OS that I could thing of. When I finally got tired of that I decided to restore it back to the OEM windows 7 then see if it would update. I found I did not have the OEM disk I contacted Dell and they send me to a site to down load windows 7 home premier. I installed it and it said my OEM key was not correct I contacted MS, the number that was on the screen. I was asked if my phone was a smartphone, and I said yes then I was texted with a site to go to and I entered the numbers on the screen and it texted me back with a series of numbers, I entered them and my windows 7 was activated.
I tried to update with the windows update but it would hang at downloading updates. I finally went to the windows insider website and downloaded and created a usb installer for windows 10 and it did the upgrade. I did not have any apps on my laptop so I let it do a clean install. This seemed to take for ever. Finally it let me log in and then it said it was adding my desktop and that took forever. But after the system let me in I could get the final updates and now I have to say it is working great, but I had to disable hibernation due to it not restarting some important services after it woke up. I have to say it is nice to have the laptop back with the operating system that connects of my wife's work computers.
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