Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20151126190829/@comment-26427856-20151230214319

I'm planning on updating my computer from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 for the new year. Should I deactivate all my Vocaloid voicebanks before I update, or is that just something the companies say you're supposed to do?

Hey guys, I'm back! I took a long break from here, but I'm back now! Sorry I haven't given you guys those links to my original works (not that anyone remembers or cares). I'll put those up as soon as I come up with a good title for my one track that currently doesn't have a title. OTL

So I pulled a TL,DR for the stuff above, but I did skim through some of the recent stuff. What's this about V2s retiring/becoming non-transferable to V3 and higher? I already have Sonika usable in the V2 Editor and the V3/V4 Editors, and thus I have an activation code for her as a V2 voicebank and for her as a V3 voicebank. I'm guessing I'd be fine since I already have her working as both, but what about if I need to deactivate her to update to Windows 10? Will I not be able to reactivate her as a V3 voicebank, or will I be fine since I already have a code for that?

When will V2 voicebanks be unable to be activated as V3/V4 voicebanks? I was planning on getting Big Al eventually and it seems like I might need to do it soon. (Plus I got a considerable amount of spending money for Christmas, so that makes now an even better time for me to get him.)

(Sorry if some of my questions about this were already answered above, I just came back from a few weeks of absence and there's way too much that I haven't read for me to search through it all for answers.)