Upgrade From XP Corporate License
Mar 1, 2010
Just wondering how this is going to go. Right now my comp is running XP Pro which i obtained from my IT department. Im a federal employee so the disc i have is a federal corporate license. Today i purchased W7 Pro and a new 1Tb hard drive. Im goint to make my old hard drive backup storage and put the W7 OS on the new drive. Whats the best way to go about it?
When i install the new hard drive and boot from the W7 disc is it just going to prompt me to put in the XP disc? Or does it just ask for a valid XP license key? Everytime i have installed this XP on a new comp it never asks me for a CD key...i think it has something to do with the fact it is a government license and is unlimited regarding the number of comps it can be put on. If i need a key i guess ill have to wait till i get back to work and get one from the IT department.
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Sep 1, 2012
Two years ago I bought a laptop that came with Windows 7 Home Premium installed. Now I would like to know if it's possible to upgrade my HDD and keep my OEM license, and how?
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Jul 25, 2009
If I install the Home Premium version of the RTM now, will my upgrade HP license, which I pre-ordered already, activate this installation?
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Aug 30, 2011
My partner bought 3 upgrades as a group to Win 7 but we were concerned as we live in different places as we both want to install them that Microsoft might not let us do it with this type licence.
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Dec 4, 2011
im planning to get a win 7 pro upgrade license, because they dont offer home premium any more, i just want to make sure that i shouldn't have much if any problem installing it, as im putting a new ssd with no windows on it at all in it.
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Jun 24, 2011
I upgrade my Vista OEM laptop a few months back to Windows 7 Home Premium using Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade edition, and would like to know if its possible to transfer that upgrade to my WinXP OEM desktop? Does the OEM editions of Windows affect the ability for a license transfer?
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Dec 12, 2009
I have a windows 7 DVD provided by my school that says "64-bit x64 upgrade: Pre-existing OS license Required"
I have one desktop computer with Vista and one laptop also with vista (both with legit keys & activation)
Question is: can the upgrade DVD be used on the two machine ?
Will it require the old vista key, the new win7 one, or both ?
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May 17, 2012
Obviously no one can predict the future but answer based on past experience When you get an own license it's tied to the motherboard.If you upgrade it with a better upgrade only version (retail version) does it become a full license or is it still oem?
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Jun 17, 2012
I once did a fresh install of an Home Premium ISO image on an Asus G series laptop by using an ISO image and the Windows license tied to the computer. I am wondering if the same thing could work with an Ultimate 64 bit ISO image and a student upgrade license of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit if I wish to have a fresh install of Ultimate.
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Aug 3, 2011
i built a compaq laptop board by board a few years ago.the laptop came with a windows xp professional sticker, but no install disc or hard drive.i want to know if i can upgrade the license number without a previous installation of windows xp professional.
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Nov 19, 2009
We recently purchased a new PC with Windows 7. My wife works from home 2 days a week, and for the life of me, I cannot get the Windows 7 PC to connect to her work PC via RDC. It works just fine on her old machine, running XP Pro. I currently have the Firewall turned OFF, and also have the Firewall on my Belkin router turned off. Where do I start?
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Feb 21, 2012
my laptop has a windows 7 home basic license before then my friend told me that he can upgrade my home basic to windows ultimate for free!! wow then i say yes ok that's cool, to cut the story short he upgrade my laptop's os. then 3 weeks after microsoft send me a message that my os is not genuine or couterfeit. damn. is there anyway i can bring back license OS?
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May 10, 2012
I tried to sell my OEM copy of Win7 along with the motherboard it was tied to. But I couldn't. I managed to sell the board, but am stuck with the OEM copy of Win7. So now I was wondering... if I install the old OEM Win7 on my new build, can I purchase a new license from M$ at the time of activation? Or do I have to trash this copy and physically buy a new copy?
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Nov 23, 2009
I am running Windows 7 Home Premium without any problems; however, I have acquired Windows 7 Professional. My question is how can I use the license for the Home Premium on another system? I know I would have to call Microsoft to reset the key: but when would I do this?
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Dec 28, 2009
Actually I have installed Windows7 Ultimate on my laptop and I have a volume license key. And it seems, the windows7 activation required windows volume license server to activate. But I am in remote and I could not able to access volume license server available in my office.
If I use this key I am getting the error. I there any way that I can use the volume license key on my laptop to validate the product.
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Apr 28, 2012
A recent thread on Sevenforums got me thinking. Why does Microsoft say in their license terms that you can't use an OEM license for personal use, but they sell it through third parties (Amazon and Newegg) and they know that ordinary people are going to buy these OEM copies. If Windows Activation goes through with it then it must be fine, right?Also, I kind of mentioned this already, but why would they sell it through third parties if they CLEARLY know that any average personcould come across it and buy it. It doesn't say anywhere on Amazon's product description page that I have to sell it to a third party.
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Mar 18, 2011
I have a old license key I want to remove from the registry but I don't know how to find it. This isn't the OS key, it's just for an old software program. I installed a different version of the program and it has a different key, but the two have become intertwined. Now the other program won't work the way it's supposed to because the other version had features this one doesn't.
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Aug 5, 2011
I have a 32 bit program that I would like to use on my 64 bit system. Windows 7 pro OS.
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Aug 4, 2012
Its been a little while since I've been here and I have a quick question about this new fangled Windows 7. I have it and Windows XP installed as a dual boot on my machine currently. However, I'm ready to get rid of XP entirely and switch to 7. I have a new SSD coming and I could just clone the drive but instead I was wondering about doing a fresh install on the new drive and just formatting the old one.
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Jun 2, 2009
get Usb disk security license key 6.1.0.432?
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Feb 27, 2012
Now first off, I would like to make myself clear; I am not attempting to break any laws/rules, I am attempting to find out the rules so as NOT to break them. My question is this: If I make a virtual machine of Windows 7 with 5 users, on a Linux server, and have 5 Linux machines hooked to it, would I be breaking any MS licensing laws if each "Windows user" accessed that Virtual machine from their Linux machine? And to be honest I'm not even certain the Virtual machines can be accessed this way or if they have to reside on the actual Linux client
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Sep 9, 2010
I bought the retail version of Win 7 Home Premium when it came out, and put it on my laptop.I'm now building a PC for my parents, and I was thinking about transferring the Win 7 install to the new PC.I still have the Vista for my laptop that it came with, but would probably want to keep Win 7 on it until i'm happy that the PC is working ok.Having never transferred licences between PCs? Will the two versions run concurrently (I know its a license for one, but i'd like to know what happens!) or will the 'old' version stop working correctly?
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May 17, 2012
I bought Company Of Heroes a few days ago. Just tried to install it now but in that section I must enter the license code from the back of the booklet it tells me that my license code is invalid. The case was still sealed when I bought it.
PS: I took a photo of the screen showing the entered license code, the code on the booklet and the error message.
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Jan 27, 2012
I just got a distressed Windows 7 unit that has Office 07 Home and Student installed on it. I'm trying to figure out exactly where I stand with MS on this. Everything functions perfectly, except every time an Office app is fired up it requests the license key. But the key is not necessary to run the program, and it will allow you to proceed without the key after a few nuisance screens.I would think that either the installation is valid or not. I don't have a key, so I'm stuck where it is for now, but I'd like to understand what's going on.
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Sep 6, 2009
How to See Windows 7 License Information ?
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Sep 10, 2011
I am planning to retire my laptop but I how do I cancel the Windows 7 registered license which I bought and installed it separately?
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Mar 4, 2011
it said license was successfully verified...so i guess i can use the license on both my machines?
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Jul 1, 2011
I recently about two weeks ago upgrade from an i3 530 and msi p55a-g55 to an i5 2500k and msi p67a-gd65 and if it's relevant, I changed my graphics card from a 5750 to 560 ti. I had the OEM version of Windows 7 home premium and had heard I'd end up having to buy a new copy and also heard that with all the drivers for 7 that everything should work fine. Well, the day I swapped in the new parts, everything was just fine and I was asked to activate windows, I did, and everything was still okay. After a couple of days though some of my programs like superantispyware (just downloaded), starcraft II, and gamespy comrade won't open. Trend Micro says there's no virus yet I can't for the life of me get these programs to open and most of the time the computer just seems to be slow. I've tried to restore multiple times and te is going to fix my problem. Also, if I do have to reinstall Windows, do I have to back up my entire HDD or can I back up just my school files and my games since those are the only two things that I use my computer for?
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Jul 30, 2011
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Dec 16, 2009
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Feb 19, 2012
I recently had a laptop have the screen destroyed, I am tired of having that laptop connected to monitor and am planning on throwing that hard drive into a new build pc desktop (I understand that the hard drive is fairly slow). What sort of fun gyrations do I have to go through to get the copy of windows registered in my name to be recognized by MS to update and run properly with the mostly new hardware?
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