Recent content by PapaSmurf1502

After spending an hour talking to various people at Windows Customer Support, it appears as though my options are to buy Windows 7 again, pirate it, or buy a Mac. Running belarc to see if it can get me out of this jam. Update: Belarc gave me a product key that has cleared with Microsoft...

This is the most relevant-looking sticker I could find. I don't want to update or upgrade, I just want a clean, "new" OS/Computer/Harddrive as if I had just purchased the computer. It was originally Vista and I downloaded Win7 via a free upgrade that came with my computer when I purchased it...

Over the years, I have gained the desire to revert my computer to factory settings, or rather to the state of a brand new computer with a freshly installed OS. The only problem is that my computer doesn't have any of the convenient services that allow a factory reset to happen internally and...