A Buddy has been asked to blow away a friends laptop (new with Windows 7 Home) and upgrade to Window 7 Ultimate. The new HP / Compaq has so much trial freeware and crap - it needs to be blown away and reloaded... Question: I was thinking he could load Ultimate and use Opa tool 6 to install an OEM Key and Certificate => and he'd be done. (I have the disk for Ultimate - not Home.) I'm I full of crap or is this the right solution? Maybe Master Opa could chime in?
Load ultimate on it then use Daz's loader, it has an option (under advanced I believe) to install a cert and key only. Set the key and cert to HP/Ultimate and under the bios mod section click the install button. Save you the work of building a disk (you can always build a disk later).
Wow so as long as its for the correct version, manufactuer and x86/x64 doesn't matter? Hmm....Microsofts getting lazy lol. Good for us though
oem keys are only edition specific ie if you install win7 home premium, you need a home premium key it doesnt matter if its a dell key or hp key or 32 bit or 64 bit