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Gizmodo: Helpful Hint: How To Do a Clean Windows 7 Install Using Upgrade Discs [Windows]
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP: Windows 7 - Watch Out For HomeGroup, Clean Installs From Upgrade Media and Setup A Network Printer
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Thank %pick_your_deity% for Paul Thurrott. http://bit.ly/bEXcI 23 days ago |
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For those upgrading to Win 7, check out this link provided by @kgriffs: http://tinyurl.com/yzec8t6 23 days ago |
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Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media / http://bit.ly/HRiwh 23 days ago |
Helpful Hint: How To Do a Clean Windows 7 Install Using Upgrade Discs [Windows]
Gizmodo —
... Paul Thurrot cracked the code on performing a clean install on an unused PC with a fresh wiped hard drive. Just take your $30 college special, follow these instructions, and thumb your nose in the general direction of Redmond, WA. [ ...
Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media
Asus Eee News, Mods, and Hacks —
Paul Thurott's Supersite for Windows has posted a tutorial on doing a clean install Windows 7 with Upgrade media. You can read it here. ...
Windows 7: All You Can Eat [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
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Windows 7: A Weekend Install Guide and More [Microsoft]
Gizmodo —
... Windows 7 Deals • Windows 7 Deals of the Day • HP and Best Buy's Super Insane $1200 Combo Offer More Windows 7 Goodness • How to Install Windows 7 via Boot Camp on a New Mac • How to Virtualize Any OS for Free • 7 Reasons to Stick to XP • Amazon Kindle Touchscreen App for Windows 7 • Lifehacker's Complete Guide to Windows 7 • Win SuperSite: How To Clean Install Win 7 With an Upgrade-Only Disc
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Windows 7 - Watch Out For HomeGroup, Clean Installs From Upgrade Media and Setup A Network Printer
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... run the Activate Windows utility, type in your product key and activate windows. It should just work.
Oh yeah. I learned this also this weekend. If you want to contact a printer through a print server via a wireless connection try this. Set the printer up as a local printer first. Next set it up as a network printer. Delete the local printer and viola. It worked for me.
Comments welcome.
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Supersite for Windows
Linkpost | 10.26.2009
TechBlog —
... editor mentions Apple's vaporware tablet as though it's due any moment. Does he know something, or does he just read Apple fanboy sites, too? • Netflix Movies Stream to Sony's PlayStation 3 - Netflix continues to expand the platforms on which it's available. • About the curious pricing of the 27-inch iMac . . . - The pricing on the desktop is actually quite good, given that there's nothing else like it out there. But Apple punts on lower-cost MacBook • Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media - You may have to jump through some hoops, but it can be ...
Clean install Windows 7 using upgrade media
TechSpot —
... hard drive? Technology blogger Paul Thurrott has detailed a method to bypass this restriction -- and save you up to a $100 if you don't actually own a Windows XP or Vista license. The process requires users to clean install but not activate Windows 7. After the installation is completed, users must make a minor change to the Windows registry, use the Windows "rearm" command, then reboot, type in the accompanying product key and Voila! Thurrott details two additional methods on his SuperSite for Windows blog, the first and least painful of which includes simply installing ...
Finally, Some Answers to Windows 7 Upgrade Questions
SuperSite Blog —
... and article in which I have tried to sort through the mess of how it is you can clean install Windows 7 with Upgrade media. Ed takes it further, however, and if you're wondering about what's going on or struggling with your own upgrade, this is a must-read: ...
Some of Your Windows 7 Upgrade Questions, Answered [Windows 7]
Gizmodo —
... The key is, um, the product key: When you punch in an upgrade key, setup checks whether or not it's being installed on a clean system or one that already has Windows. If you punch in an upgrade key on a straight up clean install, it's not gonna work. You have to use the earlier registry workaround for this from Paul Thurrott, or the infamous double-install trick leftover from Vista: Install Win7, don't enter the product key. Then do an upgrade install on top of that, and punch in your key. Boom. ...
Are The Upgrade Rules To Windows 7 Confusing? I Believe They Are
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP —
... key.
Ed also passes on some additional information that may assist some users in making the upgrade less problematic. Check out his article at the link below.
Over at Paul Thurrott’s Supersite he has a good article as well on how to do a clean install from an upgrade media. I would also check out his article if you are going to try and go this route.
Comments welcome.
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Talking Windows 7 Upgrade Media with Microsoft
SuperSite Blog —
... So I had an in-person discussion yesterday with Microsoft about how its Windows 7 Upgrade media does (or does not) work. I'm going to update my Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media article to include this information, but I wanted to communicate it to you as quickly as possible. So here are some data points to consider... ...
Dual-Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu in Perfect Harmony [Dual Boot]
Lifehacker —
... deal of space left, format it as "ntfs" and label it something like "Storage." If can just barely fit the Ubuntu partition, you can just keep your media files in the Windows partition until you can remedy this with a full wipe-and-install down the line. Experienced Linux geeks might be wondering where the swap space is going but don't worry, we'll create one, just not in its own partition. Installing and configuring Windows Grab your Windows 7 installation disc either a full copy or modified upgrade disc , and insert it into your DVD drive. If your system isn't set up to boot ...
