licensing

I have Win7-Ultimate installed and now would like to upgrade 2 other laptops with Win7-Ultimate. Is the family pack only good for Home Premium? If so, what is the most economical way to install to two new machines? BTW, the two laptops are not eligible for the upgrade.

Microsoft has dramatically changed its OEM licensing in the past year, and it's not really possible for individuals to legally use this type of Windows 7 Setup disc. More...

Hi all. Well, my adventures with Check Point Software and ZoneAlarm continue. If you've read my last post, you might remember that I mentioned having difficulty using ZoneAlarm Pro on my recently upgraded PC. It turns out that the minimum system requirement for running ZA Pro is a 2 GHz or...

I live in Northern California and went into a Best Buy, they had the boxes of the 3 pack on the shelf, no pricing. Then I got frustrate and left because I couldn't find anyone to help me... then I went to Fry's and they had NO 3-pack boxes on the shelf at all. I asked where they were, he said...

Does anyone know if there is a way to "keep" Win 7 without buying it? Don't preach to me now about supporting MS because as the world's richest company my few bucks ain't gonna' ruin them. I want to keep it because it really works well with COD(UO) and I have a lot of software installed that...

Hi, I paid £30 for the Windows 7 Professional Upgrade as I'm a student. Yesterday I bought a new 500GB HDD and some more RAM to use for Windows 7. I downloaded the files from the link provided in the e-mail I got, and extracted. I was then given a strange error message, which upon Googling...

I have installed W7 Professional (32 bit disc)on my laptop and validated it and now want to uninstall it from there and instead install the 64 version on my desktop. Will I have any trouble with re-validating it?

Can I use a Win7 Upgrade disc to upgrade the RC? Or do I need to buy a full version? :confused: Thanks!

Sorry if this has been answered before, but I am new and could not find an answer I have 2 copies of the Win 7 Home Premium upgrades. I want to upgrade 2 different computers so do I have to use the DVD's that came with each package, or will one DVD work for both installs, as long as the...

Here is my case. I've performed a upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium couple days ago, and bought another upgrade to Professional yesterday. After I installed Professional via "Windows Anytime Upgrade", I change the product key to the "NEW" professional product key. Question is Would I still be...

I'm a bit concerned about my installation options at this point. I have one 500GB HD, that I had partitioned to two drives with GParted. I was then able to install the Win 7 RC and dual boot both versions just fine. Now, I received my Windows 7 Upgrade copy and wondering if I can still...

If you have Vista Ultimate on one hard drive and instal Windows 7 Pro on another hard drive in same computer are you violating the EULA. I am having an argument with a freind of mine over this matter. I say you are not because the Operating systems is still on the same computer. He says the key...

hey, im going to buy windows 7 pro soon and i was wonderin if i buy the full version, how many computers can i install it on? the reason is i have 3 laptops in my household. cheers mitch

I got my email with the link but only get error messages.... is Digital Rivers getting beat to death or did they screw up my download link? Anyone having any luck that got the .edu deal?

Since I can not "Upgrade" from XP Pro, will the XP to Vista version restrictions still apply? When I went to ug to Vista I was told that I could not "upgrade" to a Home versions from a XP Pro version. Something to do with the media parts of Vista not existing in XP Pro. It was a real pain to...

Hi there As it is hard to get FPP in our country, I'd like to buy it from Germany. Problem is, in Germany they sell German versions. Ok, one can install English MUI but I am not sure if this is 100% English then. In previous Windows it wasn't. Now one can get unactivated Windows 7 English...

hi ho ! I'm new here and my english aint the best since its not my mother tongue. so pls forgive my bad english, hope you'll understand my questions anyway i am a student and like to take advantage of this cool offer of M for students regarding Windows 7 currently i run : Vista...

I want to buy the family pack to put on 3 PC's. One has Vista 64 bit, one has Vista 32 bit, and the last has XP. Is there a difference in the packages or is the "upgrade" meant for anything? Can i use the upgrade for my PC's?

Hey all. I have a question for you. I have been running the rc x64 on my i7 gaming machine for a while and wanted to purchase win 7. Since I am a student I have the option to purchase home premium upgrade for 30 bucks. My question is, since this is the upgrade, can I just download a copy...

Hi! Currently we have over 250 desktops and around 75 laptops, all running Windows XP with Office 2003 on them. We're looking in to going over to Windows 7 with Office 2007. We use Symantec Ghost to image our computers (we have a Select Agreement with Microsoft) and with XP it's nice and...