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I bought a computer after July 26th with Windows Vista Ultimate from Dell, and will get its equivalent version of 7 mailed to me. Only it will take up to a month before it's shipped and I want my win7 now. I read 30+ pages of this thread and have extracted the following information: -I should download the WIN7 RTM ISO with MD5: F43D22E4FB07BF617D573ACD8785C028 -I can install and use this version in trial-mode until my win7 key arrives in the mail (in about a month), should this take longer I need to do the 30+ days rearm fix -Once I got it I can then insert said key into win7 and be a happy bear Is this correct? Anyone actually did this already? Thanks!
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Oct 28, 2009 20:29
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Jos posted:I bought a computer after July 26th with Windows Vista Ultimate from Dell, and will get its equivalent version of 7 mailed to me. Only it will take up to a month before it's shipped and I want my win7 now. Yep. Just make sure you install ultimate.
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Oct 28, 2009 20:32
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^^Thank you that was quick! I hope I won't run into the whole upgrade hassle since I don't know whether they'll send me a full OEM or an upgrade license, but even then there seems to be a registry fix.
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Oct 28, 2009 20:43
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Has anyone come across any tools that can be used to easily create a Windows 7 image that can be deployed to multiple computers? I've tried to use the WAIK but it's just far to complicated, my ideal would be a tool that I could just point at a reference machine and have it create an automated install based off of it's settings.
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Oct 28, 2009 20:53
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Has anyone else had problems connecting to the internet? I'm going mad trying to sort this problem out. For some reason, I am getting the message '"Local area connection" does not have valid IP configuration'. I seem to be connected to an 'unidentified network'. The only thing I can think of that caused it is my computer going into sleep mode, but I've done a system restore and the internet is still not working. I've googled this like crazy, some of the (failed) answers I got were: Uncheck the option that allows windows to turn off the network adapter Do ipconfig /renew Uninstalling drivers and rebooting Getting new drivers from manufacturer's website Also have done a system restore Nothing has worked, it's so annoying! Can anyone help? edit: my router is fine, as my girlfriend's laptop works OK Lady Gaza fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Oct 28, 2009 |
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Oct 28, 2009 20:55
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Mensur fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Oct 28, 2009 20:58
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madprocess posted:No you aren't! There's only Vista Home Premium or Vista Business, which one do you have? He probably means Vista Ultimate Home Premium XP Edition.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:27
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Joe Don Baker posted:What's the problem you are having with SyncToy? It works fine on my install. Synctoy works perfectly fine for me as well. I just used it the other day to back up over 50gb worth of photos and music.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:39
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My dad just bought a new Dell Vostro desktop that is going to be preloaded with Windows 7 32bit Home Premium. Since its from Dell, the computer will probably be loaded to the brim with crap he doesnt need. Since he has a legal license for Windows, does Microsoft by chance have a website that allows you to download an ISO image? Or even purchasing blank media from them.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:49
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gib posted:What have you all been using to back up your files? SyncBack works perfectly fine on Win 7, at least the SE version does, so I would assume the freeware one will, too.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:54
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tronester posted:My dad just bought a new Dell Vostro desktop that is going to be preloaded with Windows 7 32bit Home Premium. Have him run PC-Decrapifier, it'll be a lot easier for him and it will accomplish the same purpose.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:55
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Joe Don Baker posted:What's the problem you are having with SyncToy? It works fine on my install. Well I haven't even installed SyncToy after reading some reports like this one: http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/synctoy/thread/34a0ff3c-7b48-4599-bf7d-98d8dc2c154d Also, it's not listed as being supported in Windows 7. I guess I'll give SyncBack a try.
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Oct 28, 2009 22:58
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tronester posted:My dad just bought a new Dell Vostro desktop that is going to be preloaded with Windows 7 32bit Home Premium. No, get it from a torrent site and make sure to check the ha.... Wait, what's this! Link Gizmondo posted:While most of you had a painless upgrade to Windows 7, some experienced problems with the downloadable Student Edition from Digital River. Microsoft acknowledged the problem, and has now come through with the ISO file you so desperately need. Click the link for direct links to the ISO and instructions. Don't know if it's the 32 or 64 bit version though.
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Oct 28, 2009 23:29
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madprocess posted:Have him run PC-Decrapifier, it'll be a lot easier for him and it will accomplish the same purpose. If for some godforsaken reason it fails, it's not difficult to manually remove that poo poo. Tedious, but not difficult.
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Oct 28, 2009 23:30
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Xenomorph posted:I've heard some people say the Anytime Upgrade just unlocks/installs components. I should have clarified, my experience was for Win 7 and not Vista.
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Oct 28, 2009 23:31
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Not sure if this has been answered or not, tried to skim the thread but drat it's a loving huge thread. I'm on RC 7100, and back when the $50 upgrade was available, naturally I ordered it. And now come to find out there is really no way to go from RC to RTM Home Premium. I still have my Vista disc. Will I be able to reinstall Vista over the RC, then upgrade to the RTM Win 7?
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Oct 28, 2009 23:34
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To chime in on the Anytime Upgrade talk in Windows 7, here's how it worked for me. Bought a Home Premium for 50 bucks when the pre-order was first announced and installed that on launch day. Later found out that my school's MSDNAA got updated and I put in a Windows 7 Pro key in. All it did was download/unlock the extra features, a reboot later and I was in Windows 7 Pro.
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Oct 28, 2009 23:39
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tronester posted:My dad just bought a new Dell Vostro desktop that is going to be preloaded with Windows 7 32bit Home Premium. I bought a desktop preloaded with 32-bit Vista last year from Dell. Not only was there barely any crap (mainly a Dell Automated Support Center that was easy to uninstall), they provided a base install disk for Vista instead of one of those horrible restore disks. Not sure if this is true in all cases, but they seem to be a lot better about these things with desktops than they are laptops.
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Oct 28, 2009 23:48
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Avarcirwen posted:Has anyone come across any tools that can be used to easily create a Windows 7 image that can be deployed to multiple computers? I've tried to use the WAIK but it's just far to complicated, my ideal would be a tool that I could just point at a reference machine and have it create an automated install based off of it's settings. Yaos fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Oct 29, 2009 |
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Oct 28, 2009 23:52
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Yaos posted:G4L or Clonezilla are free tools can create a clone of the partition or the entire hard drive. You have to create individual images for each machine if you want different drivers already installed for different machines, although Windows 7 seems to support a large amount of hardware without needing drivers installed. I'll check them out, thanks!
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Oct 29, 2009 00:08
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I've installed 7Stacks and created a couple of stacks...but nothing new is showing on my taskbar - what am I missing? There's no documentation on the site as far as I can see, and no new files in the folders I chose to be stacks. It must be something really simple...
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Oct 29, 2009 00:25
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krushgroove posted:I've installed 7Stacks and created a couple of stacks...but nothing new is showing on my taskbar - what am I missing? There's no documentation on the site as far as I can see, and no new files in the folders I chose to be stacks. It must be something really simple... You have to get 7Stacks to make an Icon on the desktop, then pin it to the taskbar. You can then delete the desktop icon
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Oct 29, 2009 00:29
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Ok I've read the beginning and end of this thread and Google'd it but I can't find out if I can upgrade my OEM Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit without having to do a clean install. The Upgrade Advisor and some Googling suggest that I will have to do a clean install while the OP and a couple of posts in this thread suggest I will be able to do an upgrade instead. So what's the truth?
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Oct 29, 2009 00:30
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I would go for Clonzilla first for any imaging program. I've used G4U, G4L, Acronis, Ghost, etc. Clonezilla (plus GParted) is where it's at. Oh, if Anytime Upgrade works in 7, then good. It was such a retarded gimmick in Vista, Microsoft gave me a full copy of Vista Ultimate for free when I called and bitched. Xenomorph fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Oct 29, 2009 |
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Oct 29, 2009 00:31
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My mp3 players are boned since I did a clean install. My 1st Gen Zune 30 and a Creative Zen both give me a "Dependency service or group failed to start" error. Any ideas?
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Oct 29, 2009 00:40
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Stuntman Mike posted:You have to get 7Stacks to make an Icon on the desktop, then pin it to the taskbar. You can then delete the desktop icon ah, cool - I wasn't actually creating the stacks. I ended up making folders in the 7stacks program folder where I copied various shortcuts to, seems to work OK. It's just not very clear in the (non-existant) instructions what you have to do 
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Oct 29, 2009 01:01
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I just realized something. I'm going to have to get used to using a new shortcut key to open explorer in Win7. Most of the time when I'm opening explorer it's to interact with my documents/media in some way, so opening to the Libraries 'folder' serves as a great starting point. I'm assuming there's no way to change the starting location when you use Win+E, so I'm going to have to train my brain to use Win+3 to open explorer instead.
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Oct 29, 2009 01:12
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I placed on order over the phone through the Microsoft Store and will be getting a nice shiny copy of Win7 Professional delivered to me within the next week, but holy drat has the process been needlessly painful. The lady who took my order simply couldn't get my shipping/billing information entered properly. I took the time to make sure that it was and when I received a confirmation email the shipping address was STILL wrong. The state Honolulu is in is HI, not AL. She was either as dumb as a sack of bricks or my cell phone connection was crappy. Fortunately I caught this right away because MS sends their confirmation emails out lightning-fast. I told her to cancel the order and start a new one (which fortunately did have everything entered correctly), but the original, hosed-up order still hasn't been canceled and I'm currently waiting on hold to get this whole mess sorted out. If anyone lives at my non-existent address in non-existent Honolulu, Alabama, you may be getting a free copy of Windows 7!
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Oct 29, 2009 01:17
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StickFigs posted:Ok I've read the beginning and end of this thread and Google'd it but I can't find out if I can upgrade my OEM Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit without having to do a clean install. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-windows-7 Answer: NO.
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Oct 29, 2009 01:32
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chizad posted:I just realized something. I'm going to have to get used to using a new shortcut key to open explorer in Win7. Most of the time when I'm opening explorer it's to interact with my documents/media in some way, so opening to the Libraries 'folder' serves as a great starting point. I'm assuming there's no way to change the starting location when you use Win+E, so I'm going to have to train my brain to use Win+3 to open explorer instead.
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Oct 29, 2009 01:35
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qbert posted:http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-vista-to-windows-7 Well that's lovely. Here's a bit summing it up that should go in the OP: 32-bit versions can not be upgraded to 64-bit versions. Vista Home (Basic or Premium) can only upgrade to 7 Home Premium or Ultimate. Vista Business can only upgrade to 7 Professional or Ultimate. Vista Ultimate can only upgrade to 7 Ultimate.
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Oct 29, 2009 01:56
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Oct 29, 2009 02:46
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m2pt5 posted:Well that's lovely. Can I clean install an upgrade copy of Windows 7 to any copy of XP or Vista? For example, 32-bit Vista Business (Retail) to 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade)? This isn't really clear in the OP either. EDIT: drat, didn't see the post above me. I've never had to deal with upgrade licenses in the past, so I'm unfamiliar with the situations that would allow me to validate an upgrade copy. Zonekeeper fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Oct 29, 2009 |
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Oct 29, 2009 02:50
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Zonekeeper posted:Can I clean install an upgrade copy of Windows 7 to any copy of XP or Vista? For example, 32-bit Vista Business (Retail) to 64-bit Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade)? YES
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Oct 29, 2009 02:58
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Ok well my school only gives me Windows 7 Professional for free so I guess I'm not upgrading until I get another hard drive. Unless, is it possible for me to upgrade Vista Home Premium to Vista Business THEN to Windows 7 Pro without doing a clean install along the way? EDIT: Or is it possible to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium and then upgrade to Windows 7 Professional if I only have a Windows 7 Pro Key?
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Oct 29, 2009 03:05
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Can I do a clean install with an upgrade serial if I have a full version DVD of windows 7? I assume so, considering I don't need to provide the serial at installation.
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Oct 29, 2009 03:11
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StickFigs posted:Ok well my school only gives me Windows 7 Professional for free so I guess I'm not upgrading until I get another hard drive. Just clean install if you have the space on your hard drive. All your old stuff will get moved to a Windows.old folder as long as you don't format your drive during installation. Of course, it's ALWAYS a good idea to back up your data before doing anything like this. Whether you wait for another hard drive or not is your call.
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Oct 29, 2009 03:24
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Is Anytime Upgrade a special type of key, or can you use it with a normal Upgrade key?
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Oct 29, 2009 03:42
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I got my copy of win7 pro today! Thank god, took long enough.
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What would be the best way to remote desktop to my Windows 7 from Windows XP? I like to connect from my university's computers (running Windows XP) to my laptop (running Windows 7) in case I forget a document or something.
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