You have five computers that run Windows 8. You need to perform an upgrade installation of Windows 10 on the computers. What are two possible ways to achieve the goal? Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

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C. While signed in to Windows 8, run setup.exe from a network share that contains the Windows 10 Running setup.exe while signed in to Windows 8 launches the installer in-place, allowing it to detect the existing installation and offer the upgrade path that preserves apps, settings, and files. This is the primary supported method for an in-place upgrade. D. start the computers from a bootable USB drive that contains the Windows 10 source files. Booting from a Windows 10 USB drive launches setup.exe outside of Windows 8 but still allows the user to choose the upgrade option during setup, which preserves personal files and settings from the existing installation.

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A. Apply an image of Windows 10 by running imagex.exe. imagex.exe (part of the Windows AIK/ADK) is used to apply WIM images for clean deployments and does not perform an in-place upgrade that preserves the existing Windows environment.

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B. Start the computers from Windows PE, and then run setup.exe from a network share that Windows PE is a minimal preinstallation environment that does not support in-place upgrades - running setup.exe from WinPE only permits a clean installation, discarding the existing Windows 8 installation.

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E. Apply updates by using Windows Update. Windows Update delivers patches and feature updates to an already-running Windows OS but cannot perform a major version upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 10.

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