

You’ll have to “buy” it, but the price should show $0 by the time you reach the end of checkout.

Still, you can easily download it to your computer by going to your school’s Information Technology (IT) Marketplace, clicking on the Microsoft section, and purchase Windows 10. If you’re a student of faculty member of a Community College, College, or University, you should be able to upgrade to Windows 10 for nothing - of course, in a roundabout way you’ve already paid for it, but through those hefty tuition bills and textbook prices!

If you go the ISO route, you can burn it to a DVD and install Windows 10 that way.Īgain, you’ll just have to deal with a watermark at the bottom of the screen, but you should be able to use all of Windows 10 Home’s features without a hitch! You might get some activation warnings every so often as well, but you can easily just ignore them. If you create the USB drive, you can boot off of it and install Windows 10 without a product key. If you create a bootable USB drive, it’ll need to be larger than 3GB in size or at least space left. Next, after a couple more prompts, you’ll need to choose whether to create an ISO or a bootable USB drive. When you get to the What Do You Want To Do? screen, make sure you select the Create installation media for another PC option. Once installed, double click the tool and follow the prompts. To do this, you just need to download the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to your PC. To download Windows 10 without a product key, you’ll need to download Windows 10 first. You’re limited to the basic Windows 10 software doing it this way. What’s the difference between that and Windows 10 with a digital license then? The difference is that you’ll have a watermark on your screen, and you won’t be able to download better versions like Windows 10 Pro for free.
