I am big fan of Microsoft personally and there is no doubt that, launching windows 10 for PC is great achievement by Microsoft. It’s pretty cool, nice graphics, performance improved and much more secure than before. I am participant of windows insider program, have been using windows 10 since it released its first preview build. Initial builds had a lot of bugs, but with passage of time the Microsoft fine tuned Windows 10. A lot of user have been shifted from old to latest Windows 10, while still there are a large number of people who wanna upgrade to Windows 10. I received many requests from colleagues and readers “How to Download or Upgrade to Latest Windows 10 PC”. In this tutorial I am gonna explain with details how you can download Windows 10 ISO for installing on another PC. Also upgrading your current PC to Windows 10.
System requirements
- Processor: 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster processor or SoC
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RAM: 1 gigabyte (GB) for 32-bit or 2 GB for 64-bit
- Hard disk space: 16 GB for 32-bit OS 20 GB for 64-bit OS
- Graphics card: DirectX 9 or later with WDDM 1.0 driver
- Display: 800×600
Note: You PC must meet the requirement to proceed to upgrade/install Windows 10, otherwise you will be unable to upgrade. Also you will need a good Internet connection. If you PC have required hardware then proceed.
Step 1: Visit this link https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10# and download Media Creation Tool. Install and Run it.
Step 2: Accept the License Agreement and proceed next.
Step 3: Here you need to select your choice. If you wanna free upgrade your PC automatically to Windows 10 then select the first option. Select second option if you need to install Windows 10 on other PC and proceed next. Remember that I f you are upgrading your current PC then just select first option and click next and upgrade process will start itself.
Step 4; Here you need to select desired Windows language, Edition and Architecture. Select it according to own choice. Proceed next
Step 5: Here are two choices, Creating a Bootable and Saving ISO file. If you select first option “Bootable Flash Drive”, then you need to attach a flash drive (4GB Recommended) with PC. If second option is selected the ISO file will be downloaded, to make it Bootable later on DVD or Flash Drive. Proceed next
Step 6: The latest Windows 10 will start downloading. It may take 30 minutes to 1 hour depending on your Internet speed.
Step 7: Once download is complete and verified, this tool will start making Bootable Flash drive automatically. Don’t remove the Flash Drive until Boot process complete.
Step 8: Once process is completed, you will see message Your USB Flash Drive is ready. Click Finish and remove the USB Flash Drive.
By performing above steps successfully, you will have Windows 10 Bootable Flash Drive ready and you can install it on any other. In case any difficulty at any step, drop a comment below. Hope you will enjoy this tutorial
Note; If you are upgrading from Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or older build of Windows 10 then you will get latest Windows 10 free. If you clean install from Bootable USB Flash Drive then you will need product key.