You must have found posts about force installing
windows 10
by going to some folder and deleting files and then run cmd as
administrator
etc. etc. While that method works fine for downloading Windows 10, but
chances are that Windows 10 is already downloaded on your machine. Lets
find out how to force upgrade to windows 10 just by a simple
registry tweak!
Chances are that Windows 10 must have been downloaded to
your PC already. But it did not install because Microsoft want you to wait for
weeks or months. Anyways! Let’s cut the crap and see how to upgrade to Windows
10 without deleting any folders or files.
STEP 1: Check out if there is a folder named $Windows.~BT on your C drive (or Widows
partition) – Like “C:\$Windows.~BT”.
STEP 2: Open the folder and view its contents. it will be something similar as shown below.
STEP 3: Just check the total size of this folder (Select
all, right click, properties). If it is around ~3.87 GB, you are lucky my
friend!
STEP 4: Run Registry editor and go to the setting - HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\OSUpgrade
and create a new DWORD (32 bit) Value.
STEP 5: Name it AllowOSUpgrade
STEP 6: Right click on the Value and click Modify
STEP 7: Change it from 0 to 1
Finally you will see something similar to this:
STEP 8: Restart your PC!
STEP
9: Open Control Panel (on Desktop) and then open Windows Update from
the Control Panel. You should now be able to click the Get Started
button to upgrade to Windows 10. Just click that button, follow the
prompts and Upgrade to Windows 10 options visible!
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