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On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that |
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> required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They |
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> said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran into |
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> that before tho, it installed fine but gave 30 days to put in the |
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> number. Does winders 7 have something similar? |
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When you install Windows 7, Vista or XP (SP3 or newer), you can |
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actually skip the product key step and it'll install as a trial |
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version (30-day? 90-day? something like that). You can then "upgrade" |
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to the real version by activating it when you're comfortable that |
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everything is working properly -- or don't activate it at all and |
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install Gentoo. Trying to keep it on-topic. :) |
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