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Its all good now. Called MS and they activated it for me so its ok. Thanks for your help though.

Thanks! I removed it a little earlier today and problem is gone, only concern is has windows defender ever been really good a detecting viruses? I only mention this because I've never really messed with it so I wasn't sure if the one that came with Windows 8 was any better. But now I know...

Hi everyone, I once again have a question...before I upgraded to windows 8 pro, I was using the free version of AVAST antivirus. But it seems to be interfering with my computer being able to run windows updates with it turned on. Can someone direct me to a good free AV program that runs well on...

Yeah its all worked out now, long as I don't have to reinstall 8 sometime down the line I don't anticipate it being a problem again lol. Thanks for the help guys!

I got on the phone with Microsoft this morning, they activated it from their end :) I did receive a key with the disc, but it wouldn't activate because it told me I cant use the key from doing a clean install. If I had known this, I probably would have waited a bit longer but was having major...

Hi everyone. So I bought a copy of windows 8 pro today at Best Buy. After I got home and installed the OS(I did a clean install), come to find out only AFTER I finished installing the OS it said that it wont activate because I did the clean install with an upgrade disc. The is no indication its...

its a fresh install, its the 64bit 7 ultimate. The laptop its running on is: HP G60-445DX notebook pc with the AMD Turion X2 Dual Core 64bit processor, 3GB RAM, 256MB NVIDIA GeFore 8200M G, 320GB HDD. I know the laptop meets the specs, what could be causing it to be sluggish? one example is...

But if I install it using the clean install option will it even do that considering its an upgrade disk? And second, if I go that route, will it activate in that scenario?

Well had to ask, the copy of windows 7 I got was given to me by a friend of mine. I'm not to knowledgeable about hacking lol.

Hi all, im new here so bear with me if I didn't post this in the right place. Here's my question...I'm currently running a falsely-activated copy of 7 Ultimate 64bit. I'm thinking about buying the upgrade to Windows 8 pro 64bit. If i do the boxed upgrade will activation be successful in windows...