Microsoft kept giving away free upgrades to Windows 10 on old hardware for more than eight years. The upgrades officially ...

The particular image that leaked that day was an extracted install.wim combined with the Windows 7 installer, so the new installer graphics which were first revealed here were not present.

Windows Installer will not work under Safe Mode, this means that programs cannot be installed or uninstalled in Safe Mode without giving a specific command using msiexec in command prompt.