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Windows 8.1 update question - prof - 11-24-2014
A buddy was given a hand-me-down HP Pavilion G6 laptop. It has the original version of Windows 8 which he hates. Is it possible to update it to Win 8.1 for free?? I thought I read something about Microsoft only allowing Win 8 owners to update to 8.1 by a certain date last year and if you didn't update to Win 8.1 by that date then you were going to have to pay to move to Win 8.1. Am I wrong about that??
TIA,
prof
P.S.- If he can't upgrade to Win 8.1 without paying then I'll have to install Win 7 on it for him, but I think getting the drivers to make it work is no easy task.
Re: Windows 8.1 update question - M A V I C - 11-24-2014
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/update-from-windows-8-tutorial
Re: Windows 8.1 update question - Carm - 11-24-2014
Upgrade to Windows 7.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/Installing-Windows-7-on-an-HP-Pavilion-G6/td-p/2301515
Re: Windows 8.1 update question - prof - 11-24-2014
Many thanks for the extremely helpful replies guys!
Re: Windows 8.1 update question - Filliam H. Muffman - 11-24-2014
Mine won't stop nagging me to update to 8.1 every time I wake it from sleep.
Connect it to the innertubes, run update (maybe several times), then restart and leave it on the desktop for a few minutes and it should ask you to start the 8.1 process.