If you try this with 1,000 computers, iffy.
An SMB with 10-200 Windows 7 machines that were OEM licensed don't really matter. As for audits, this mainly is for volume licensing than anything.
That old 7 license converts to a 10 digital license and from there you can clean install no problem. "You still can do this no problem, however careful, do an upgrade keeping everything as if you choose to yeet everything and start fresh, you lose your free upgrade.
When upgrading a Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computer with the Media Creation Tool, your older license will be converted to a Windows 10 digital license tied to that device.Īfter upgrading, this digital license allows you to perform a clean install of Windows 10 on the device, continue upgrading to newer versions of Windows 10, and potentially get a free upgrade to future versions of Windows.Īccording to a Reddit user named CokeRobot, who claims to be a Microsoft worker, Windows 10's free upgrade for a year was 'marketing fluff' to maximize the operating system's adoption.ĬokeRobot also shed some light on the now-expired Windows 10 free upgrade offer.
This promotion ended in 2017, but a method still exists to upgrade older computers to Windows 10 for free.Īlmost six years later and the latest Windows 10 version 2004 feature update released in May 2020, Microsoft has quietly turned a blind eye to the fact that you can use the Media Creation Tool to upgrade to Windows 10 for free. When Windows 10 was first released, Microsoft announced a promotion that allowed Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users to upgrade to Windows 10 for free.
Pro Tip: I’ve written quite a bit about Gmail over the years.Note: This article was originally posted on December 1st, 2019, but has since been updated to reflect the current version of Windows 10 and new steps that should be taken to prevent problems with the upgrade. Done and happy with all your modifications? Click on “ Update filter” and you just updated your Gmail filter! Woot! Probably you’ll keep these as-is but if you want to change things, it’s easy to do that too, as you can see.
Next up is the second element of a Gmail filter, the action or behavior you want from Gmail once a message has matched your filter: Make the changes you want and test them if you’d prefer by clicking on “Search” or, if you’re sure it’s all good, click on “ Continue” to proceed. This is also where you’ll want to make the changes to your Gmail filters too, whether it’s updating the from, the to, checking keywords or a subject pattern (and remember email lists with fixed subject prefixes are perfectly valid to target!). You might well have far more complicated rules established. In this instance, the rule’s easy: email that is from. Then it’ll show you the two elements of the filter in steps, starting with the matching rule or rules you’ve specified:
You can delete the filter entirely if you want but click on “ edit” to proceed. I’ll demonstrate with my Boulder Public Library filter: There’s no easy way to search through all the Gmail filters to find the one you want, so if you have quite a few (I have at least 50) it’s a bit tedious to scroll down and find the one you want.
Learn more here: how to block email addresses in Gmail. While creating filters is conveniently on the shortcut menus in Gmail, your filter database is all tucked into the 90’s era Gmail Settings area, so take a deep breath, buckle up your spaceboots and let’s jump in…Ĭhoose “ Settings” from the gear menu, then make sure you’ve moved to “ Filters and Blocked Addresses” on the tab list:ĭid you know you could block email addresses entirely in Gmail? Helpful if you have a stalker or crazy ex. Whether it’s companies being acquired by others, services being updated or changed or just friends – or frenemies! – changing email addresses, email filters are terrific, but being able to update them is pretty critical. It’s not uncommon to need these updated, though, muchly because the Internet definitely doesn’t just stay in stasis. Learn how to set ’em up here: How to create Gmail email filters. The process of creating Gmail email filters and updating them is quite different because I think that the Gmail team figures most people will be creating lots of filters but never changing them! If you don’t have any filters yet, oh, you’re missing out too they’re one of the best things ever for email and I’m a huge fan.