Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Windows 7 or 8.1 to
Windows 10
Hussain Shakir
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Table of Contents
About Author ............................................................................................................................... 3
LAB Summary .............................................................................................................................. 4
Before Upgradation ..................................................................................................................... 4
About Author
I have setup this LAB on VMWare work station 12.0. The whole lab is running on ThinkPad
W541 with 32 GB of RAM and Intel(R) i7-4930MX CPU @ 3.00 GHZ, with 1 TB SSD
Samsung.
The requirement was to upgrade existing Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8.1 smooth upgradation on
Windows 10 with all profile Documents, Downloads, Desktop items and favorites etc.
There are few steps to accomplish task, but before that have a perusal window 7 screenshots.
Before Upgradation
b: Window 7 desktop shows text file, png file and win7 folder.
c: Window7 downloads shows a folder
1: Upgradation steps need to follow; Media Creation Tool is a software we used for Upgradation.
2: Click on that software and Click on Accept
6: Get ready
7: after that applicable notice and license terms appear cliclk on Accept
8: Installing updates
9: Ready to install window appears then click on Install
12: After full upgradation of window 7 to window 10 we need to configure few steps for window
13. Choose privacy setting and click on ACCEPT
This is how we have done this. After that window 10 will appear with all documents, download,
desktop which we were using on window
16. Now match step 1 (a,b,c,d) of window 7 with new upgraded window 10.
Hope this will help you to upgrade your Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 to Windows 10.