IceGhost wrote:
Pyldrvr wrote:
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these discs are only supposed to be used to clean install the operating system, and once that OS is installed and activated on a particular PC, it cannot be deactivated and moved to a new PC
. The OEM is required to provide Windows 7 support to the user that buys the PC on which it is installed. The OEM must also stick the included Certificate of Authenticity (included with the OEM Windows 7 packaging) somewhere visible on the PC they are selling to an end user.
Sounds pretty much exactly like what I was saying no?
I've installed my copy of Windows 7 multiple times with no problems. I don't understand how Microsoft is supposed to know whether you are installing it on the same PC or not.
They were using your MAC address which is built from various pieces of hardware; however, whenever some major piece of hardware changes the MAC address changes. So whether you're re-installing or not that invalidates it and, in Vista, it freaked out. It sounds like that's changed with 7 but I know for a fact that with Vista it's still an issue, even though they've stopped being dicks about it. I'll have to call 'em and get them to unlock probably both my copies when I finish installing them and 1 copy is the regular retail version.
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