Thread: Still safe to upgrade Kobo firmware if on Windows 8.1?
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Old 08-28-2022, 06:46 PM   #8
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It's not free. It's only sometimes sort of free. You need a particularly valid Windows key. Not all valid Windows 7 keys work. Fortunately my laptop's built into the BIOS key was really a Windows 10. It failed for the version of Win7 that came with the laptop. You also may need a utility to read key from bios (A Linux Live USB stick) or a program to decode a key from the Registry (Lenovo offers a vbs text file that works when run).

It's only a free download.
It is a free upgrade. About a year ago, I used the download to upgrade Windows 7 and I had no problem at all. It's no different to the upgrade that came from Windows Update.
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