

- #Reinstalling windows 10 for parallels full version#
- #Reinstalling windows 10 for parallels install#
Somewhere along the line you will have to have a valid copy of windows 7 or 8 in order to get the free upgrade to Windows 10.
#Reinstalling windows 10 for parallels full version#
Maybe you have a copy of Windows XP full version that you could install, upgrade to You said your copy of Windows 7 is an upgrade.
#Reinstalling windows 10 for parallels install#
Once the Windows 10 preview period expired users received notices that they have to purchase Windows 10Īs has already been pointed out, if you had a working install of Windows 7 or 8 you could upgrade it to Windows 10 for free. If you purchased Parallels while Windows 10 was a free public beta you were able to use Windows 10 until the final version was released to the market. It does offer to install Windows 10 when you install Parallels, but it is up to you to purchase the license for it. Parallels does not come with a license to use WIndows 10. Smittychat pinged the Mac moderators, so here I am! From reading the forum, I'm not the only person who has run into this, but none of the suggestions given seem to work. Has got to be a way to get me back in business. I realize my 74 year-old brain isn't as flexible as it used to be, but there I've had many frustrations along the way, but I was generally able to create a work-around to fix the issue. I've been in this business for over 45 years. I put up with all the issues during the preview, many of which I reported, and now I'm told it was all for nothing. The preview key has been disabled, so I'mīasically SOL. Once I removed Windows, I can no longer install it without having a product key. Finally, after upgrading to El Capitan, I decided to remove Parallels and Windows and start over. Word didn't seem to have that problem, but it wanted to I've tried coherence and full screen, but I always had to go into Windows to set the preferences to use the Windows version. The Windows program rather than the Mac program from the Mac file manager. I was also unable to set Excel files to use When the final version was installed I started having problems with office applications wanting to use the Preview version rather than the Final version.

I've been running Win 10 under Parallels for a long time.
