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Richie

 posted on 28th Mar 10 at 07:04

Man ppl need to get with the times innit!

Did she purchase a retail copy of Windows 7? If not, even if you uninstalled it off the other laptop - it wouldn't work or activate as the BIOS in your laptop doesn't have the key in the SLIC table applicable to the license.

If you bought the retail copy and tried the phone method, the next time the other machine talks to the activation server, it will see different hardware and tell that machine its not genuine.

It probably didn't flag up because it first tried to activate when you connected to.

The only proper way to get around activation is by using an OEM key and doing the SLIC spoofing method using a bootloader.

[Edited on 28-03-2010 by Richie]


pow

 posted on 27th Mar 10 at 19:35

lol shane :lol:


moka

 posted on 27th Mar 10 at 18:43

lol Shane.


Andrew

 posted on 26th Mar 10 at 21:31

quote:
Originally posted by Shane
yes we are, but cant you use it on more than one pc?


Legally, no.

However, you could try formatting again and going through the phone activation ;)


Simon

 posted on 26th Mar 10 at 20:11

no, your copy won't be legal as well, you have to pay for it too


Shane

 posted on 26th Mar 10 at 20:09

yes we are, but cant you use it on more than one pc?


Reecemac

 posted on 26th Mar 10 at 19:59

You both using the same key?


Shane

 posted on 26th Mar 10 at 19:51

right my g/f has got a genuine copy of windows 7 home premium, i formatted my laptop and put it on, all was fine until i downloaded the updates for it and now it says its not genuine, even though it is and is being used on her laptop

it also says something about its an upgrade copy, does that mean im going to have to find another copy of vista to put on my laptop (my laptop came with vista and i have a key) and then just update my laptop?