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If you downloaded/ran the Media Creation Tool on the Windows 7 device you’re going to clean install Windows 10 then the MCT would have shown you a default ‘Recommended’ download based on what you’re already running. For example:

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So, unless you removed the tick from the checkbox, MS has already worked out the right version.

There’s more to it than this but that’s the basics.

PS – You don’t have to upgrade first. Have a look at this article: Clean Install Windows 10 Directly without having to Upgrade First. I’ve used this method several times and it works flawlessly.

Hope this helps…

Rick – Yes, I’ve seen that, but the download doesn’t ask you what version (Home or Pro) you want to download (which sort of makes sense). On the other hand, the clean-install tutorial looks very very nice and I’m thinking that’s the way I’ll do the install. Thanks!!

That makes it unanimous. Thank you.

That helps a lot! Thanks for your help.

For what it’s worth I used to run PowerDesk. I had to rebuild my system (Windows/XP at the time) as many of us have had to do over the years and when I tried to reinstall/re-activate PowerDesk it failed with a “too many activations” error. OK, so maybe I should have cleanly uninstalled it first. In any case, I notified Avanquest’s support team and they were completely useless, giving me answers you’d get if you were trying to activate a bootleg copy (which it was not). I gave up and just uninstalled their software and moved on.