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From: RnR on 6 Aug 2010 12:13 On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:10:51 -0400, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >On 8/6/2010 12:02 PM, RnR wrote: >> what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ? > >"what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ?" > >After 30 days it becomes pretty much unusable. > >"is it legit to install the win 7 x64 on one pc and the win 7 >x32 on another?" > >Nope - they both have the same license key. > >"...what happens if I do it anyway?" > >See above. > >Whether or not we agree with Microsoft's strategy or tactics, the rules >are now very clear and the enforcement is getting much better. Gotcha. I'm not surprised by your answers and so far I'm legit. Will I have to go thru hoops if I change drives? I think somewhere I read they allow X number of activations???
From: Daddy on 6 Aug 2010 13:09 On 8/6/2010 12:13 PM, RnR wrote: > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:10:51 -0400, Daddy<daddy(a)invalid.invalid> > wrote: > >> On 8/6/2010 12:02 PM, RnR wrote: >>> what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ? >> >> "what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ?" >> >> After 30 days it becomes pretty much unusable. >> >> "is it legit to install the win 7 x64 on one pc and the win 7 >> x32 on another?" >> >> Nope - they both have the same license key. >> >> "...what happens if I do it anyway?" >> >> See above. >> >> Whether or not we agree with Microsoft's strategy or tactics, the rules >> are now very clear and the enforcement is getting much better. > > > Gotcha. I'm not surprised by your answers and so far I'm legit. Will > I have to go thru hoops if I change drives? I think somewhere I read > they allow X number of activations??? If by "change drives" you mean replacing an existing hard/optical drive or adding a new drive, I believe you can do that as many times as you wish. There is a limited number of times you'll be allowed to activate on-line (how many I don't know). After that you have to activate by phone. But unless you're making substantial changes to the hardware, you'll never have to activate. -- Daddy
From: RnR on 6 Aug 2010 16:15 On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:09:22 -0400, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >On 8/6/2010 12:13 PM, RnR wrote: >> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:10:51 -0400, Daddy<daddy(a)invalid.invalid> >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/6/2010 12:02 PM, RnR wrote: >>>> what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ? >>> >>> "what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ?" >>> >>> After 30 days it becomes pretty much unusable. >>> >>> "is it legit to install the win 7 x64 on one pc and the win 7 >>> x32 on another?" >>> >>> Nope - they both have the same license key. >>> >>> "...what happens if I do it anyway?" >>> >>> See above. >>> >>> Whether or not we agree with Microsoft's strategy or tactics, the rules >>> are now very clear and the enforcement is getting much better. >> >> >> Gotcha. I'm not surprised by your answers and so far I'm legit. Will >> I have to go thru hoops if I change drives? I think somewhere I read >> they allow X number of activations??? > >If by "change drives" you mean replacing an existing hard/optical drive >or adding a new drive, I believe you can do that as many times as you wish. > >There is a limited number of times you'll be allowed to activate on-line >(how many I don't know). After that you have to activate by phone. But >unless you're making substantial changes to the hardware, you'll never >have to activate. I wonder how it knows the difference.. maybe combination of serial numbers??? No need to reply, I'm already past my quota on questions. Thanks Daddy for the help.
From: Tom Cole on 6 Aug 2010 18:38 On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 15:15:50 -0500, RnR <rnrtexas(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:09:22 -0400, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> >wrote: > >>On 8/6/2010 12:13 PM, RnR wrote: >>> On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:10:51 -0400, Daddy<daddy(a)invalid.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 8/6/2010 12:02 PM, RnR wrote: >>>>> what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ? >>>> >>>> "what would happen if I chose not to activate my win 7 disk ?" >>>> >>>> After 30 days it becomes pretty much unusable. >>>> >>>> "is it legit to install the win 7 x64 on one pc and the win 7 >>>> x32 on another?" >>>> >>>> Nope - they both have the same license key. >>>> >>>> "...what happens if I do it anyway?" >>>> >>>> See above. >>>> >>>> Whether or not we agree with Microsoft's strategy or tactics, the rules >>>> are now very clear and the enforcement is getting much better. >>> >>> >>> Gotcha. I'm not surprised by your answers and so far I'm legit. Will >>> I have to go thru hoops if I change drives? I think somewhere I read >>> they allow X number of activations??? >> >>If by "change drives" you mean replacing an existing hard/optical drive >>or adding a new drive, I believe you can do that as many times as you wish. >> >>There is a limited number of times you'll be allowed to activate on-line >>(how many I don't know). After that you have to activate by phone. But >>unless you're making substantial changes to the hardware, you'll never >>have to activate. > > >I wonder how it knows the difference.. maybe combination of serial >numbers??? No need to reply, I'm already past my quota on questions. >Thanks Daddy for the help. Here's a web site which explains Windows Product Activation (WPA) on XP. http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
From: ahall on 6 Aug 2010 19:44
"Timothy Daniels" <NoSpam(a)SpamMeKnot.biz> writes: > <ahall(a)no-spam-panix.com> wrote: >> "Timothy Daniels" writes: >> >>> "Christopher Muto" wrote: >>>> as for the argument about the incredible expense of higher education today... >>>> that sounds to me to be precisely a >>>> reason not to pay a second time for things you already bought. >>> >>> The OP's goal is purportedly to get his son a successful college >>> education. Why is he allowing the cost of Win7 to get in the way >>> of what should be more important considerations? Academic Editions >>> are cheap - see this page: >> >> Why to you presume to know so much about people >> you have never met? >> >> Hubris is ugly. > > One needn't meet you. The pertinent facts are your own statements > The Academic Editions of Windows are full boat editions and incredibly > cheap, but you're spending all this time attempting to apply your wife's > installation DVD to your son's computer (a scam), yet worried that you I would have had a licence, no scam. Not only to you read minds poorly, you read and think poorly. Plonk. -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) |