I reserved win 10 months ago for my laptop built by HP and win7 installed by HP and after finally getting the ok I downloaded as instructed. After reboot my desktop was weird like half win10 and 7. I go into logs and it says my registry files are corrupt so luckily I revert back to 7 and now my...
The laptop is an Asus R500A with Windows 8 (not 8.1) that I just purchased from a guy on Kijiji. I got the thing home and did the recovery on it, all went as it should have and I was able to boot straight to the desktop where I went about performing the usual new Windows OS tasks; updates and...
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I've recently bought a Dell Inspirion notebook with Windows 8.1 Home Edition 64 bit OEM pre-installed on it. Now, what i want to do is to replace the HDD with SSD, so i did a little research and....well, I' am more confused now! But first thing first.
For those who want to tell me about...
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I recently did an update of my machine from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. The update process did not show any errors or warnings and by the time it finished I was under the impression that everything went smooth.
After the update I was testing the environment and discovered that one of my desktop...
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My notebook has a Win 8 OEM key in UEFI.
After wiping my hard disc I want to install Win 8 retail instead of OEM version.
Because this is not possible with stored OEM Win 8 key I want to boot with a Win 7 BootCD and
patch the UEFI with a Win 8 retail serial key.
For that I need a Program...
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Can somebody please explain the Producy Key and ID key and the validation process please because i am having difficulty in validating my copy of windows.
I will explain because I have messed up somewhere trying to be clever:
Firstly ..I purchased a upgrade win 32/64 discs with key but found...
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windows 7
By Tim Conneally, Betanews
The Lenovo OEM key that leaked earlier this week and allowed Windows 7 Ultimate to be cracked is being blacklisted, according to a blog post last night from Alex Kochis, Director of Genuine Windows at Microsoft.
Kochis says, "Yesterday we were alerted to reports of a...
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