Downgrading From Windows 7 Enterprise To Professional
Jul 16, 2012
I have a computer that is to be decommissioned here at the office, which is to say that it will no longer be used for work. The computer is to be given to a local school. The problem now is that it has been running Windows 7 Enterprise, and the license will expire in a few months. According to this site, [URL], Enterprise can be downgraded into Professional. However I can't seem to find a way to do this. Is this a free service, or do I have to purchase the license again? Customers licensed for use of Windows 7 Enterprise are generally licensed for Windows 7 Professional, which can be downgraded to Windows Vista Business, Windows XP Professional, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows NT 4.0, Windows NT 3.51, Windows 98, or Windows 95 operating system. You would not, however, be able to downgrade to Windows 7 Home Basic or Windows 7 Home Premium, or other consumer (Full Packaged Product - FPP) versions of Windows as they are different product editions and not prior versions of Windows 7 Professional.I have a legitimate Win 7-Ultimate license on my own computer, but I do not have the install CD for it (at the moment).
I recently purchased a used computer at a very low price. On it was an installation of Windows 7. All seemed to be fine. I cleared out all the old junk, cookies, registry etc. Now I get a window error saying the computer can not verify my copy of Windows Enterprise and I should check with my IT department. I am a single home user with Windows 7 Home Premium on my other pc. I spoke with a local computer store and they said it sounds like the previous owner put a "bootleg" copy of Windows 7 Enterprise on the hard drive. Can I downgrade the Illegal Enterprise edition to my legitimate copy of Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade without losing all the programs and stuff I spent the last week installing on the new used pc?
I have installed Professional but the key I purchased is a dud. It was a MAC key but when I types it in it turns out it has already been used. I had no luck getting a valid one from the seller.It turns out I only really need Home Premium. If I buy a Home Premium one and authorize with that will it work.The reason I don't want to reinstall is I am using Bootcamp on a Mac Pro and I have to mess around a lot to get it working.
Each time I launch an MS Office Enterprise 2007 application (such as Word or Excel) MS Office "Configures" itself for 2-3 minutes before allowing the app to open. In a possibly related issue, MS Outlook refuses to allow me to set-up ANY e-mail accounts. I am running a 64-bit version of Windows 7, and have run ALL Updates for Windows, and ran the Service Pack 2 for MS Office 2007.
I've been mulling this over for awhile and I'm throwing it out for discussion. We all have been playing with Windows 7 Ultimate for months now regardless of the build. Now when we get our Windows 7 HP or pro 10/22 will it let us downgrade from ultimate to Pro for example or is it really clean install time. We all know what a pain it is rebuilding our systems. Or is upgrading from ultimate to ultimate the ony way to avoid the pain of rebuilding our systems.
yeah i upgraded to windows 7 last week but i cant play a few games of mine now because the driver updates for my computer is for only vista operating systems...
since i have to go back down to windows vista home premium i had a question, how can i ERASE my entire C drive completely and start fresh with a new windows vista installation disk?
Am buying a new computer with Windows 7 professional installed. Have MS Office Professional 07 on old computer which died. Will MS give me another product key so I can install MS Office Professional 07 on new computer? Will I need install additional drivers?
Basically I'm having all sorts of problems with blue screens and stop errors on starting up my system (bought as windows 7) and it seems it might be a driver problem.I would re-install windows 7 but I don't have the disc for this, I do however have an old vista disk.My question is if I were to boot from CD and install vista, if it were to actually work and get me onto the system, does it wipe clean the hard drive? As there are many photos and such on there I would like to keep.
I'm trying to install Epicor Active planner on a Window 7 OS 64-bit architecture machine. The installation is not successful and instead the screen shot on which the following displays:"This install require a 32-bit archtecture". What procedure should I follow to change a 64-bit Window 7 OS architecture to 32-bit Window 7 OS architecture?
i Just purchased a HP Envy dv6t 7200 Quad Edition, which is not a Bad PC for HP but it came pre-installed with windows 8. i recently downgraded it to windows 7 and have been using most of the drivers from the HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 which came with windows 7 but i seem to be missing two drivers that i have not been able to find: One Unknown Driver one PCI Device Driver
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I know the unknown Driver may be hard to find but i was hoping to get some help in finding the PCI Device driver.Here are the specs of the laptop:
dv6t Quad - Windows 8 64 - 3rd generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820QM Processor (2.7 GHz, 8MB L3 Cache) - NVIDIA(R) GeForce(R) GT 650M Graphics with 2GB GDDR 5 video memory - 12GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm) - 750GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive Protection - 9 cell Lithium Ion Battery - 15.6-inch diagonal Full HD Anti-glare LED-backlit Display (1920 x 1080) - SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support - HP TrueVision HD Webcam with integrated dual array digital microphone - 802.11b/g/n WLAN - Backlit Keyboard
I'm planning to downgrade to vista, (don't ask why) and I was wondering if I will keep the files I already have (images, music, documents) in a Windows.old folder, because I remember having that when I reformatted Windows 7 or something like that.The downgrade to Vista is built in my Samsung notebook (F4 on Startup to repair computer) but I have images/music on this laptop that I can't lose, and I don't have any USB's or hard drives I can use at this moment.
PC#1 already has Win7 Pro installed on it.I'm building PC#2 and have bought Win7 Home Premium.I want Pro on PC#2, and Home Prem on PC#1. Both OS's are retail box versions, not OEM.I want to downgrade PC#1 from Win7 Pro to Win7 Home Premium without reinstalling. I figure I can change the key on PC#1 to the Home Prem key, so I can use the Pro key on PC#2. Is this as stupid as I think it is? (I won't be offended if you say yes)
I have a vaio (svs15125cxb) that comes with win 8 installed. I would really like to go back to my w7 x64 but I can't. I disable safe boot, and then when windows 7 gets to the startup screen it freezes. I removed external hardware and tried different ways with no success.
I have Windows 7. I'm trying to downgrade to Vista and re-upgrade to 7. My laptop won't even boot up at all because I apparently have a bad hard drive. I have both DVDs to boot it up but I can't even get past the starting windows screen. I also have the original Drivers and Utilities DVD for my laptop that came with it. I'm not sure if I should attempt to boot the Drivers DVD to repair the damaged hard drive or just try to downgrade and then re-upgrade?
I have new Toshiba Satallite Pro L670 EZ-1711 running Windows 7 Pro. I have purchased a Windows 7 Enterprise upgrade which I burned to a DVD. Every time I try to boot from the DVD it fails. I use Windows 7 USB DVD Tool to burn the iso file to the DVD. While burning it said that it was a bootable DVD. How do I perform this upgrade?
I attached 2 dumps, I get BSOD's almost daily Running Windows 7 EnterpriseThe computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x000000d1 (0x00000000000000000x0000000000000002, 0x0000000000000008, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:WindowsMEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 110812-20451-01.
I had a pretty bad case of the flu on this machine, horrid virus... I don't really know how I got it, I was only looking for computer equipment online when the payloads dropped. One of the sites I was at looking for a NAS device seemed a little fishy, then locked up the machine, then wham- lost aero, all non-system files on the entire drive was given the attrib +H flag, couldn't do squat b/c all resources were being taken up, etc, etc and McAfee didn't even squeak. I think the viruses must have messed with some system files, although I can't for the life of me figure it out. I did drop UAC down to nothing earlier in the day to install some unrelated (required) software: NI Labview; and a personal application (Line6 Gearbox) but that's really not pertinent. I've dealt with this kind of thing before but am really befuddled. I've got the virus pretty much wiped out/contained I think, but my remaining problem is that I cannot get genuine again. I'm a contractor, this is a company computer, and I don't need the added spotlight this will bring.... is there any way to fix this without a domain admin's help?
I had Windows 7 Ultimate Formatted the hard disk Hp @7200RPM.Try to re install windows 7 Enterprise and Ultimate ( downloaded from MSDN Subscription, I am a msdn subscriber) used IMGBURN to Build the image I was getting "NTLDR is missing error".I tried the following:
1.I used Windows & recovery disc try to install Windows 7 from the command prompt What I got is "Cd/DVD Driver is missing" ,I changed the SATA mode from IDE to AHCI same error
2.I reseated everything tried same "CD/DVD driver is missing"
3.I tried with Windows XP repair disc and I could get the NTDETECT.COm,Boot.ini and other bootable files and copied into c drive then tried with Window 7 Installation CD "NTLDR is missing error".CD/DVD drive is detectable.
Basically I am taking over the imaging process where I work. I will to start configuring our application to create universal images.
The first thing I would like to know is, I created a bootable (tested and used) Windows 7 64bit Enterprise USB flash drive. I would like to make this universal so when a new machine comes in I can either add new drivers if need and install from the USB.
Currently I have to install the drivers after the installation of windows has completed. Which folder in can I add the drivers into? I am thinking of creating sub folders for each model and another subfolder for the type of driver ie. video, nic etc I also created an autounattended.xml file and it always halts at the create partition wizard. If I manually install windows, windows 7 will create a second partition that is 100mb. I read in forums where most people only create 1 partition. Does it matter how many my autounattened file will create?
I have on little bit trouble to reactive the Windows 7 Enterprise. The story is couple of month before i installed the windows 7 Ent in my 32Bit computer, and yesterday onward its not started because the motherboard is crashed, So i changed with new motherboard, after install the new motherboard when i'm start the windows its say "your windows is not genuine active the windows" i try to reactive the windows but no luck.
I am doing it because my brother had his computer worked on by our Nephew, and he went from XP to 7 ultimate with a hacked copy of 7 ultimate. I have done a fresh install, but it keeps starting and reverting back to Ultimate, The kicker os that I can go to KEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion and see windows 7 home premium as the operating system with no CD product ID. I'll add the product key, and go to regiser it but it won't let me activate it. The thing I have an issue with is that even after a fresh install, it starts up and says windows 7 ultimate.
I was using a licensed version OS win7 ultimate on my old system. Now after upgrading the system (mobo, processor changed) it prompts me to purchase a new product key. I found that after a major up gradation using the the same product key violates the user end agreement and so I left it there and I purchased a Home premium .( Somebody suggested to convince MS about the up garadation but didn't try it)
Now in the new sys win 7 ultimate sp1 is running and i have to change the product key within 30 days. My query is- Can I downgrade to Home premuim without a clean install?
have a Compaq mini 700 running windows 7 enterprise preinstalled.Private home netbook.only connected to personal wifi broadband. Keep getting message not genuine windows, may be victim of fraud. Eror code 0xC004f074. had machine 3 years never had problem before..
