Can I reactivate after a Windows 10 upgrade?

Hello

(This is my first time posting).  I wonder if after you perform an upgrade of Windows 10, I'll have to re - enter my product key to activate Windows?  I have a computer at work with a genuine copy of Windows 7.  We are looking to update Windows 10.  My boss lost all media recovery and I haven't found a product on the computer label either.  My boss is far from fans and I am the new employee which is more than any of my co-workers on the computers.

Really, I just want to factory reset/refresh Windows 7 because there are problems with the current image.  I can not because, as I said, the recovery disks are lost (and there is no recovery partition).  The computer has been cleaned and supported, if it can be completely destroyed.

My boss won't spend the time, money and the replacement recovery media effort.  I recently heard the free updates of Windows 10 and thought it might be an option.

Knowledge or advice would be greatly appreciated!  =)

Product key finder programs, including Belarc, does not have a cell phone can be used for computer preinstalled OEM product key (Dell, HP, etc.)

They find the factory product key for Windows 7, which has been used on several machines, and PK is not suitable to use for resettlement with other media.

Belarc, etc. is suitable only to find usable retail Windows product key, which you can then use for resettlement.

See you soon.

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