the legal copy i bought from digital river won't install with my valid key. i did buy the 32 bit home premium version and downloaded the 64 bit home premium version from the digital river thread on here. exact same hardware with exception of harddrive. is it even worth going through microsoft customer support to not worry about updates or should i just use daz loader?
If you bought it, I'd make an effort. At the very least, if they don't help you, you can remind the MS customer service rep know why so many folks hate them.
i'm going with the loader. pressed 0 a bunch of times then finally got transfered to a agent and they said they where having difficulties and to call back in half hour. i think it would be useless seeing how my activation code is for an upgrade version and there is no way in hell i'm going back and installing vista then reinstalling 7.
Now that you trickled out the information that your initial purchase was an Upgrade version, try this: During installation decline to enter a product key. Modify the following registry entry. HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/ Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0". Admin CMD: slmgr /rearm Once the computer reboots try entering your key again.
Providing a SKU that's discounted over a full retail version for users that already have a licence for Windows.
they could just make it cheaper to begin with. i'm too lazy to install an old operating system just so i can install the new one
yes but i have an upgrade key which doesn't work for fresh installs. i'm coming from ubuntu so i don't have a copy of vista installed anymore. i wiped that crap a long time ago
or he could of just did the double install trick installing WITHOUT product key and then immediately using the media from whiten windows choose the upgrade option and enter your product key boom done only 1 hour of time
Why the f*** would you do that, wasting another 15-30 minutes when you can mod the registry in a minute?
some people just dont feel comfortable with the regastry hell people will use a tool that alls you had to do was enter the product key and the tool dose the rest