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Where do I find the product key? I downloaded the ISO right from Microsoft's website, so I know it is a genuine copy. Edit: Nevermind, I'm dumb. Microsoft's website is where I get the key. TTBF fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Jul 8, 2009 |
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that one guy posted:I'm not sure where my CD or anything is for my copy of XP. I did find a program that lets you look at the registration keys for your installed MS products, however. When I upgrade from XP to 7, all I'll really need is the registration key - so this program should be sufficient, right? It's too early to tell for sure, but Windows Vista required that the OS being upgraded was installed, and earlier upgrade copies of Windows required the media but no key. So it could be different, but since they've never done it historically the odds are against you.
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Jul 8, 2009 00:09
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What I'm getting from all of this is that if you have the RC installed currently, you won't just be able to turn that into a legit copy? You'll have to go through some load of bullshit to install vista, then install w7 over that?
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Jul 8, 2009 00:37
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The Wonder Weapon posted:What I'm getting from all of this is that if you have the RC installed currently, you won't just be able to turn that into a legit copy? You'll have to go through some load of bullshit to install vista, then install w7 over that? Uhh, no. You'll have to wipe it and install Vista if and only if you intend to buy the Upgrade copy instead of a full copy.
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Jul 8, 2009 01:14
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CitrusFrog posted:Well, first of all, I went into services.msc and MSConfig and disabled an absolute shitload of superfluous and unnecessary services which were sucking up RAM and CPU time and now things seem to be running considerably better. CitrusFrog posted:Well it's not like I need the Bluetooth Support Service, Media Center Receiver, Windows Presentation Foundation, Quality Windows Audio Video Experience, the Remote Access poo poo, Telephony, Windows Error Reporting, Parental Controls or Smart Card support now, is it? These don't make sense. None of those should be running or using CPU time unless specifically inbvoked by other applications (except WPF which is vial for any .NET apps). Turning off Error Reporting is completely retarded in an unfinished OS and will never run and use up more than a few k in resources unless a program crashes.
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Jul 8, 2009 03:03
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Casao posted:Uhh, no. Well the upgrade is going to be like $50 and the full copy is going to be somewhere closer to $100 or more, right? I have a legit copy of vista, so it feels pointless not to just buy the upgrade. It will just be a pain in the rear end, I guess.
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Jul 8, 2009 03:24
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Well the upgrade is going to be like $50 and the full copy is going to be somewhere closer to $100 or more, right? I have a legit copy of vista, so it feels pointless not to just buy the upgrade. It will just be a pain in the rear end, I guess. The upgrade is currently 50+% off, at $50 for Home Premium upgrade and $100 for Pro upgrade. These will be ~$115 and $200 respectively for full price of the upgrade when the pre-order sale ends. The full versions will be $200 and $300 for Home Premium and Pro respectively.
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Jul 8, 2009 03:46
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univbee posted:It's too early to tell for sure, but Windows Vista required that the OS being upgraded was installed, and earlier upgrade copies of Windows required the media but no key. So it could be different, but since they've never done it historically the odds are against you.
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Jul 8, 2009 03:46
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that one guy posted:I still have XP installed and I use it. So based on what you've written here I should be okay, correct? Yes. Edit: \/\/\/\/Not all colleges do MSDNAA, and not all colleges doing MSDNAA supply it to all students. My own (large, state engineering) school only provided access to MSDNAA for those students taking courses in the Comp. Sci. and Electrical Engineering departments. As a ChemE, that was fairly frustrating 
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Jul 8, 2009 03:46
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Ignited posted:I'm still a poor college student but feel the need to put a legit version of win7 on my computers google [your college] msdnaa (or use the MSDN Academic Alliance School Member Search- follow the instructions given you and enjoy a lot of Microsoft products they actually want you to have for free. CitrusFrog posted:Video Card: NVidia GeForce 8600 GT 256MB with the Vista/Win7 168.18 drivers I can't believe Windows 7 wouldn't recognize the SATA controller for your old ASUS mainboard... something definitely went wrong there. ... and since everybody already took a dump on your system without saying anything about the really old system HDD - consider it done. That Windows Experience Index thingy might be useful to determine the worst bottle-necks in your system. I'm using an "older" NVIDIA card as well and going back to the 182.50 drivers fixed a lot of stuff for me (at least in ARMA2) SoundMAX drivers suck and are hit or miss - I'm using something called AD200B_6570_Win7 don't know if that works for your chip, though and I hope I'll never have to look for drivers on ASUS' site again (try the mainboard-specific forum - it's better than their official page). Warthog fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jul 8, 2009 |
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Jul 8, 2009 03:48
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Quick question about what's the best place to buy the upgrade from. I'm currently considering between Amazon, Newegg, and Microsoft itself. I'm seeing that Amazon and Newegg are offering the physical disks. Is Microsoft only doing downloads? Also, does MS charge tax if you buy from them? Does anyone have a recommendation on which place would be the best to purchase from? Thanks.
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Jul 8, 2009 04:07
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kapinga posted:The upgrade is currently 50+% off, at $50 for Home Premium upgrade and $100 for Pro upgrade. These will be ~$115 and $200 respectively for full price of the upgrade when the pre-order sale ends. Any idea how much longer the preorder price is for? edit: when you preorder, do you have to pay the full $50? Can I just put like $5 down and pay it off when it comes out?
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Jul 8, 2009 05:02
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The Wonder Weapon posted:when you preorder, do you have to pay the full $50? Can I just put like $5 down and pay it off when it comes out?
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Jul 8, 2009 05:06
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nimper posted:Read your post again. Think about how little sense it makes. You can preorder games at gamestop and only put $5 down, and pay it off when it comes out, so I don't see how this is such a stretch.
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Jul 8, 2009 05:24
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iamsosmrt posted:Quick question about what's the best place to buy the upgrade from. I'm currently considering between Amazon, Newegg, and Microsoft itself. MS has options for download only, media only, or both with a small fee. The Wonder Weapon posted:Any idea how much longer the preorder price is for? The preorder price is for a short time, not sure exactly how long. The MS Store will not charge your credit card until the product actually goes out. I don't know about the others.
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Jul 8, 2009 05:27
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Amazon doesn't charge until it ships out either, as far as I know.
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Jul 8, 2009 06:05
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RC1 x64 has been buggy as hell since I installed it. I waited until the last day to install RC1 as Beta was expiring. The Beta was running perfectly. Now my mute button lights up at all times unless a flash video is on screen and will not turn off otherwise. Sounds still play. Every few minutes, the mute button will turn off and an error ding will sound through the speakers. Also, flash is straight-up wacky now: the only browser that lets me interact with flash related stuff outside of simple mouseclicks is IE8. Not only that, flash tends to lock up the browser for 2-3 seconds like Java loves to do on low-end machines. What the hell? Why is RC1 somehow more buggy than the beta?
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Jul 8, 2009 06:37
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Matlock posted:RC1 x64 has been buggy as hell since I installed it.
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Matlock posted:RC1 x64 has been buggy as hell since I installed it. Have you tried upgrading to any post 7100 builds?
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Re: Unruly - I think the relevant point is that the drivers worked properly with the beta. I'm confused as to why (I'm guessing sound?) drivers would magically stop working between builds. Re: fishmech - I have not, as I'm not too keen on  ing an operating system, even one that's pre-release. Doubly so because several 7 prerelease torrents out there had botnet/trojan infections.
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Jul 8, 2009 06:44
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Matlock posted:Re: Unruly - I think the relevant point is that the drivers worked properly with the beta. I'm confused as to why (I'm guessing sound?) drivers would magically stop working between builds. Anyway, it can't hurt to hunt down new drivers to see if they don't clear things up.
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Jul 8, 2009 06:49
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Matlock posted:Re: Unruly - I think the relevant point is that the drivers worked properly with the beta. I'm confused as to why (I'm guessing sound?) drivers would magically stop working between builds. Any well seeded torrent will be clean of Windows 7, and the 72xx builds fix a LOT of problems from the RC. IT's really not filez.
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Jul 8, 2009 07:01
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fishmech posted:Any well seeded torrent will be clean of Windows 7, and the 72xx builds fix a LOT of problems from the RC. IT's really not filez. Which problems are solved ?
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Spatule posted:Which problems are solved ? On my computer, a ton of crashing issues were solved, I was able to install the Zune software and Microsoft Office which were refusing to install on 7100 on this computer for some reason, and the UI's been tweaked a bit, it seems to be a little more polished. Currently I run 7227.
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fishmech posted:On my computer, a ton of crashing issues were solved, I was able to install the Zune software and Microsoft Office which were refusing to install on 7100 on this computer for some reason, and the UI's been tweaked a bit, it seems to be a little more polished. Currently I run 7227. Are the 72xx builds still "RC" style, in that they have the extended lifetime until June 2010 or whatever it is? I've been having problems with my laptop blue screening on shut down, hibernate and sleep. I've searched around on the windows7 forums and I've seen others with this problem but never saw a solution, do you think upgrading to a 72xx build will fix this?
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OMGWTFJohnny posted:Are the 72xx builds still "RC" style, in that they have the extended lifetime until June 2010 or whatever it is? The 72xx builds all take the RC keys and expire at the same time as the RC.
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Jul 8, 2009 07:31
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kapinga posted:MS has options for download only, media only, or both with a small fee. Hmm. Do we know exactly when it's supposed to go out? I don't really have $50 for it at this very moment, but in a month or two I should, and I really want to lock in the price
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The Wonder Weapon posted:Hmm. Do we know exactly when it's supposed to go out? I don't really have $50 for it at this very moment, but in a month or two I should, and I really want to lock in the price It ships October 22nd. The preorder prices will only last until July 11th or when stores "sell out" of their preorders.
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I have a question that might have been answered from back when Vista first came out, but since I skipped that and went to win 7 from XP.. I noticed that aero forces vsync to on for the accelerated desktop stuff. This however seems to extend to games played in windowed, even though I have vsync set to 'force off' in the nvidia control panel. The only way Ive found to disable the desktop vsync is to uncheck, 'use desktop composition' but that also disables glass and maybe some other aero peformance enhancements I'm unaware of. My question is can you disable the aero vsync, but keep glass and all the fancy effects? It's not a big deal to uncheck that setting in performance options, but I'd rather have to cut that step out if it can just be disabled another way.
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I'd really love it if they could add this feature: when I have one window maximized vertically on the left and one on the right, the middle window resize borders should fuse or something. Is there a place for suggesting stuff ?
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Spatule posted:I'd really love it if they could add this feature: when I have one window maximized vertically on the left and one on the right, the middle window resize borders should fuse or something. Is there a place for suggesting stuff ? Yeah, it was the first beta. You're kinda outta luck.
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quote:Windows 7 Pre-Order Promotional Pricing is a limited time offer good only on internet pre-orders of qualifying upgrade versions of Windows 7 (Home Premium Upgrade or Professional Upgrade) within the 50 US or DC. Full, inflated price for Non-US citizens is the only way to go. Edit: Curse your avatar, Unexpected EOF. If only that file loaded just that little bit longer! 
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Jul 8, 2009 11:13
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Black Pants posted:
I'm tempted to order it to a friend's address as the download and just download it here in Australia. I really don't want to miss out on a 50% discount simply because a digital download is artificially region-based.
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Nam Taf posted:I'm tempted to order it to a friend's address as the download and just download it here in Australia. I really don't want to miss out on a 50% discount simply because a digital download is artificially region-based. Well yes I thought that, but then I thought that if I had to put in my Visa details I'd have to put my real address, or that something might show that it's being purchased from Australia. On a more paranoid note, it could trigger some kind of fraud investigation on whoever I'm getting it sent to.
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We pre-ordered Windows 7 from Newegg, then noticed the credit card will expire between now and the release date. Does anyone know if Newegg will send an e-mail asking for a new credit card later on, or how that normally works?
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Fishmasher posted:We pre-ordered Windows 7 from Newegg, then noticed the credit card will expire between now and the release date. They will charge it to your card in October, so if it's expired then, that might be a problem. I imagine if you called them with the updated CC info, they could put that in.
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When creating a new connection in Windows 7, does anyone know how to do what in XP was called: "Set up an advanced connection -> Accept incoming connections"? I can't find it anywhere in 7, and I never used Vista.
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I have a weird issue where my screen will get all light colored and just really crappy quality - blurry. I'm not sure if it is Windows, Nvidia, the HDMI cable, my monitor or what. I apologize if this is the wrong forum. This usually happens coming out of full screen from media center, but sometimes after a reboot. I can turn off my tv (Sony Bravia - 52" LCD - KDL-52W4100) and turn it back on then the problem is fixed. Sometimes I can go full screen and back out again and that will fix it. I have HDMI connection - Windows 7100 - I have the latst Nvidia drivers 186.. - I have tried a different HDMI cable also Here is the rest of the build. Intel Pentium E5200 Wolfdale 2.5GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400 HDMI Micro ATX Intel Motherboard A-DATA 4GB (4 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-2250 Media Center Kit Dual TV Tuner Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Anyone else have this problem - or perhaps point me in the right direction?
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jjay posted:I have a weird issue where my screen will get all light colored and just really crappy quality - blurry. I'm not sure if it is Windows, Nvidia, the HDMI cable, my monitor or what. I apologize if this is the wrong forum. Are you using Stardock Fences ?
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Unexpected EOF posted:Yeah, it was the first beta. You're kinda outta luck. Well that sucks. Any reason it got removed ?
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