Upgrade from Window 8.1 to 10 Activation issue

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Hi, have a fairly old HP laptop which hasn't been used for some time. Its got Win 8.1 installed and I'm not able to up date Chrome with this OS. So, I read somewhere that upgrading to Win 10 is free of charge so I went ahead and did that from the Microsoft portal. I've now booted into Win 10, but I cannot activate it as I don't have a product key. I then found this..... "There is no current upgrade route from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10. In Sept 2023 Microsoft blocked the loophole that had been allowing users to use a Windows 7 or 8 product key to activate Windows 10. The free upgrade per

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