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MartyXB
Contributor
Contributor

Change OS version in Player after Windows 10 upgrade

I upgraded to Windows 10 from a Windows 7 VM in Player. Should I now change OS type in Player's Virtual Machine's Setting Guest Operating system's version (now shown as Windows 7 x64). I don't want to mess up Microsoft's activation algorithim i.e. will it somehow change machine configuration that Windows will think OS needs to be reactivated.

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RDPetruska
Leadership
Leadership

It should be safe to make that change.  Once the OS is installed in the VM, it is really just a label.

You can/should make a backup of your VM before you make that change, in case something would trigger MS's activation scheme, you can just throw away the modified VM and restore your backup.

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sadiq1435
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

Hi Marty

I dont think it will affect anything as it is just a label .

Regards

Sadiq

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