Lias:
Morgenmuffel:
As a sidenote IF I could get my hands on an oldish Dead HP laptop whats the likelihood of being able to use the product key off its sticker (which is fairly unlikely to have ever been used) on this PC?
Good. Totally in breach of the license, but it will probably work.
You may need to use the phone activation. But it should work. If she uses any "assistive technologies" you can then upgrade (7 or 8) to Windows 10.