I know, this is annoying but I've got quick question.
Has anyone activated 2 or more computers with the same license? Does it work?
It's illegal, I know, but here we don't have the benefit of a family pack and I don't feel like buying the same software twice for my desktop & laptop.
Need a quick answer because I'm about to head out and buy Win 7.
I just 'upgraded' my computer from xp to w7 and have major issues re my old Matsonic motherboard.
Now the question is: what is a "computer" or 'One unit" licence? If I change the m/b would I be OK (morally/legally) using the same licence key on the new version of my computer?
The motherboard of my laptop (a 2-year old toshiba) got probably fried and I had just upgraded to Win 7 using the upgrade licence (irony!!)
All I ask is if there is some way to tell this to MS and re-activate/re-use the same licence or get a new one for another laptop.
(btw...the same goes for Office 2007 that was install on that machine)
Where I can find this kind of information?
Can I get my licence back from Microsoft to use again after my laptop was stolen.
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About 4yrs ago I switched entirely to Linux due to the general instability and speed of my XP systems.
I have one valid XP licence from a Dell laptop now running Ubuntu but daughter No1 has used Windows 7 elsewhere and now wants it on her own homebuilt desktop.
Not being one for conflict I have agreed but here's my question.
Can I use the licence from my Dell laptop with an upgrade edition of Windows 7 on a clean install on the homebuilt desktop which has never had any version of Windows on it.
The Dell laptop runs Ubuntu and always will so I'm using a valid licence just on another machine, it seems an honest thing to do at least in my mind.
I have a PC that has windows 7 ultimate installed by a friend with a disk that legally allows multiple installations.Unfortunately my operating system isnt working well. it wont install a service pack or printers etc and I would like to do a fresh install from scratch. My friend tells me if I use his disk it will use up another of his product keys . however I am wondering is there any way I can re-install it with the existing product key so as not to use up another windows installation from his batch of licence keys
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View 6 Replies View RelatedThree Computers on a home network. Desktop in Office (Windows 7) . Wife's Laptop (Windows 7). My laptop ( Vista unfortunately). Norton Security Suite and all three. I have a network setup and a Homegroup established.
Everything was setup and working so that I could share files between all three. My wife was able to open a desktop file make changes and save it back to the desktop computer.
All of that changed. Now we get a message when trying to save the file. "You do not have permission to save in this location. Contact the administrator to obtain permission".
I have given the entire "MY Documents" sharing permission to everyone. I have checked everything. I have looked over all kinds of forums and nothing has worked.
I am to the point of doing a complete reinstall of Windows 7 on my Desktop.
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i have 1 laptop with 7620 and the desktop with RTM, the issue is taht when i do
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i get the prompt saying taht i need to enter a user and password when i could do it before without entering it.
in XP having both accounts with the same name and password and some register magic solved the problem, but Windows 7 is different many aspects so i need help.
i can bypass this error by sharing all my drives but... i dont want to left my laptop with the legs open, or well turning on and off the sharing option.
the homegroup is working, though only shares what it want and i will not mess with it (too many files in both hardrives to having access to one zone of the partition).
My stepbrothers and I have been playing some games over our LAN lately. Two of us (including myself) are connected from laptops wirelessly, and the other is connected on a wired desktop. The game we had been playing is Call of Duty, patch version 1.5. All we had been doing before was one of us would create a server, and it would show up in the LAN list for the other two of us.
No set up needed, just installed and played. However, this evening we went to play again and no servers show up for the LAN. It doesn't matter who makes the server, no one else can see it. If I try to ping any other computer on the network, I get no response. If I go to the network devices, nothing shows up. However, if I go into my router I can see all devices, wired and wireless.
They just won't show up under the Windows network devices. I am running Windows 7, and the other laptop and desktop are running XP. We have made no changes to any of the systems. LAN servers just stopped showing up.
I have homegroup set up on my windows 7 (I think). I can see all my windows XP computers, but they can't see me. How do I configure my network in windows 7. The network wizard was so simple in windows XP, but I haven't been able to get it right in Vista or Windows 7.
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My question is simple. Is this the best way to do this? Or, should I be looking for one of the cloud based emails?
How do others do this? I can't be the only one with multiple computers who wants to run Outlook on each one.
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I need to install Windows 7 on several computers. All the settings I do on one computer (desktop theme, registry changes, IE settings, taskbar size, desktop icons and shortcuts, quick launch toolbar etc.) I need to do all over again, by hand , on all the other computers. All are clean Windows 7 installs with nothing else but drivers for each hardware.
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Both my desktop and my laptop are insomniacs. I have wake on lan configured on the desktop, but I only want the machine to wake up when I send the magic packet. I have set it that way in the network adapter settings, and still it will turn on at random times. I have checked the BIOS to make sure that nothing is causing it to turn on there. I have checked the power settings to make sure that the wake timer turned off. I have gone into Windows Media Center to make sure that it will not wake up my computer to update constantly.
I then decided top go into command prompt on both computers to see what is causing them to wake up. I typed in "powercfg -lastwake" on both computers and it said that the last wake on my desktop was caused by the USB root hub. I went into the device manager and checked all of the USB root hubs to make sure that the device was allowed to turn off to save power. I did not see any of them with the setting that allows the device to wake the computer on.
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As for the desktop, I am waiting to see if changing the USB root hub settings will have any effect.
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I have a home network using the KEYSOFT workgroup. There are several XP computers on this network and everything has worked great. I just got a new Windows 7 laptop. I'm using a WiFi network to connect to the other computers. I set the Win 7 computer to use the KEYSOFT workgroup, and I can actually see the other computers on the network, but when I try to access them, Win 7 makes me log onto the other computer.
This has two problems:
1. I have never before needed to log onto other computers to access them.
2. The logon window says that I must log onto the other computer in the domain LAPTOP (which is the name of the new Win 7 computer). Since I'm using a workgroup and not a domain, I can't log on successfully. The logon dialog shows no way to change either the domain name or change it to a workgroup name.
How do I access the hard drive of one of the XP computer?
PARTIALLY SOLVED -- If I ignore the erroneous domain and just put in a logon name and password for the other computer, I can get in. But is there a way on this trusted network to access the other computers without logging in?
I'm not sure if this is a Windows 7 problem as a result of the laptop itself or not but as it is the last thing I've checked...
I have 3 computers: 1 wired desktop(64-bit), 1 wireless desktop(32-bit), and 1 wired laptop(Lenovo T400 w/ 64-bit) each running Windows 7 Professional. The two desktops are able to view one another fine in the Homegroup and exchange files.
The T400 laptop is having some issues. It can see the wireless desktop and transfer files from that machine to itself, but it is not able to even see the wired desktop in the homegroup. Both desktops are able see the laptop but neither is able to get files from it.
Each of the desktops can see all 3 computers in the standard network location, the laptop is only able to see the wireless desktop.
I've run troubleshooter on all three computers, and I've ensured they are all on the 'home network'. I've also made sure the network discovery/file sharing/etc is on in the 'advanced settings' and they are all apart of the same workgroup.
The problems seem focused on the laptop, and both desktops worked right from the get go but the laptop hasn't. Further, I used to have Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) on both the wired desktop and the wired laptop and homegroup feature worked flawlessly at that time...just not with the release.