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This is really important- you won't be able to power your Venue 8 while installing Windows 10, because you'll need to use your USB port for other things during that time. I do not use Office on the tablet anyway, though, so I didn't really care.

Note: While I think my tablet came with a license for Microsoft Office 2013 (version 15.0), I didn't see a product key for it listed in the Belarc report, and I don't know if this is because I never used/activated Office on the tablet or if Belarc Adviser doesn't pick it up.

The Software Licenses section of the profile included the product key for my OEM version of Windows 8.1, which is what I used to activate my copy of Windows 10. I used the free program Belarc Advisor to examine my tablet and saved the resulting profile as an HTML profile to my OneDrive account. Even though the Windows 10 free upgrade offer officially ended in 2016, Microsoft quietly still lets licensed Windows 7 and Windows 8 owners upgrade for free with product keys for eligible editions. If your Windows 8.1 user account on the tablet is linked to a Microsoft account, the simplest way to back up those files would be to place them all into OneDrive folders, so they'll be waiting for you once you log into Windows 10 with your Microsoft account. If you keep any unique files on your tablet, be sure to store copies of them. In order to be sure you don't lose anything before doing a fresh OS install, make sure to do the following: My Venue 8 only has 32GB of storage (and of that, only around 25GB is actually available to Windows with the default partitioning scheme), which means that there isn't enough room to do an OS upgrade only a fresh install on a newly-formatted partition.

Every few weeks the tablet would refuse to wake from sleep mode and I'd have to go through an elaborate set of steps to force the thing to do a hard shutdown and power-on.

Windows 8.1 desktop mode sucks on a tablet (no mouse, tiny text, links hard to click, etc).

(There is now a version available for Microsoft Edge.)

At the time there were also no Reddit Enhancement Suite versions available for Windows Store-compatible browsers, and I find Reddit basically unusable without it, so that was another thing keeping me in Desktop mode on my tablet.

At the time, it was also the only browser available on the Windows Store, so I had to use the tablet in Desktop mode in order to run more responsive browsers like Chrome and Firefox.

The 'Windows Store' version of Internet Explorer 11 that came with Windows 8.1 was really slow and unbearable to use.

I like the simple, elegant vinyl folio case I bought with it.

It's got a bright, good-looking screen.

I used the thing almost daily for at least a full year before relegating it to a bookshelf when I won an iPad mini at a company picnic. I originally got my tablet, the Venue 5830 Pro model, at a huge discount when buying a laptop from Dell a few years ago.

How to reformat windows 10 alienware desktop