How to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 10

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How to upgrade Windows XP to Windows 10
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Upgrade

The first step of our Windows 10 in-place upgrade is to perform the intermediate upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista.

Windows XP
Windows Vista
Windows 7
Windows 10

You do not need a product key to perform this upgrade, and you do not need to activate Windows Vista once the upgrade is complete.

Use the following instructions to perform the in-place upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista.

How to upgrade Windows XP to Windows Vista

After the first step of our example Windows XP to Windows 10 in-place upgrade is complete, we now have Windows Vista with Service Pack 2 plus Office Pro 2003 with Service Pack 3.

Windows Vista: Desktop
Windows Vista: Start Menu
Windows Vista: Start Menu - All Programs
Windows Vista: Start Menu - All Programs - Microsoft Office
Microsoft Office Access 2003
Microsoft Office Excel 2003
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
Microsoft Office Project 2003
Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
Microsoft Office Visio 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2003
After First Upgrade: Windows Vista with Office 2003
Microsoft released Windows Vista on 30th January 2007. At it’s peak in 2009, Windows Vista had captured some 19% of the desktop operating system market share.

Microsoft ends support for Windows Vista on 11th April 2017.

As of July 2015, the month Windows 10 was released, Windows Vista had 1.84% of the desktop operating system market share.


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  1. Thanks for fixing the links and for the guide. Quick question, if I activate Windows 7 after upgrading from XP to Vista to 7… then I shouldn’t need a product key for Windows 10 as long as it’s before the end of the month, correct? Windows 10 upgrade from the activated Windows 7 should do it automatically, correct? Or do I just skip activating Windows 7 and then use my Windows 7 Product Key to activate Windows 10? Thanks in advance.

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    1. Hi Ujn,

      That is correct, if you first activate Windows 7 and then upgrade to Windows 10, just press skip when prompted for a key during the upgrade process. When the upgrade is complete, Windows 10 will be automatically activated.

      You can currently use a Windows 7 key to activate Windows 10, but only with new installations (i.e. not upgrades).

      The free upgrade to Windows 10 ends on 29th July 2016.

      Kind Regards,
      Chris.

    1. Hi Ujn,

      I really appreciate you letting me know about this. It seems the article has become broken after a WordPress plugin update a while ago. My apologies!

      Should be fixed now.

      Thanks again,
      Chris.

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