If you really had a bios mod you might just have to use a different key or cert. As long as your activated you can go into updates then installed updates then right click and uninstall. Otherwise the loader works fine
I don't use a loader, unless this was a loader I just installed. Is this a loader? I did have a successful bios install, really. Sadly that person is no longer around to help me with this or I would have turned to him. Where would I get a different key or cert? and how would I install it once I do? Tks.
tks will look at them. I tried to use the keys for Ultimate provided in the locked thread elsewhere in the forum, when I entered them in the "change product key" box on the system page all came out as invalid. going to look at the links above now.
hmm, now Opa is throwing an error: "Windows cannot find 'slmgr.vbs'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again." Did something remove it?
Oh crap, and when you uninstall it like I did it does not put it back? I assume there is another file probably missing from my memory of setting this up initially. Is there a way to put this (and any other possible missing files) back? or have it pooched it beyond all hope?
You would think that the uninstall option should put all those files back but strangely it does not for some people. IDK why. You can always use a VM to install the same version of win7 and just copy each missing file over from the VM to the physical one but it would be a lot easier to just reinstall win7 to clean all that up. Hazar's tool is a good one but unfortunately it can do things like this cause the nature of how it works.
OK thanks, not the answer I wanted to hear, but appreciate yours and everyone elses time. I have spent over 100 hours installing sofware into this machine to make ready for my move from WinXP to Win7. Not sure I have the heart to do it all again.
Then install something like vmware on WinXP and then use it to install Win7 in the VM(Virtual Install) of the same copy of win7 that you have physically installed. An example would be that if you installed win7 Ultimate x32 then install that same version in vmware and just copy the whole folder called "System32" from the VM to the windows folder on your physical copy of win7. So if that is unclear once you installed win7 virtually go to "Computer/C:/windows" and copy that whole system32 folder from the VM to your harddrive that has win7 installed so like "D:\Windows\" and replace all files. This will fix your issue but you may have to reinstall so drivers again but that is not that big of deal to do. Hope this helps. BTW What version of win7 do you have?
I have Win7 Ultimate x64 installed. So there is no repository with that or similar files online for idiots like me to just download and paste into the system32 folder?
No, I am afraid there is not. If you want I can install win7 x64 in a vm but I won't have it ready til tomorrow if you want me to do that for you dude.
Wow, sounds awesome as I barely get the VM concept let alone installing one and using it. Before you do, can I just use the RemoveWat and live that way indefinitely? if so I will as I don't want to chew any more of your time. I was told this bios thing was permanent and no worries or I never would have made the effort to make the move in the first place. I have moved a lot of installs over the years, and after 12 years of this, this has been the hardest, the fact that my .iaf files did not work and I had to install Outlook, import to it, then transfer the registry and then enter all the pw's from myriad accounts was mind boggling enough. Whose idea at Redmond was it to make email transfering harder? Steve Jobs in a beard?