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« Reply #30 on: 14 September 2009, 19:56:34 »
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Once had a copy of windows 98 a copy copy that is and it wasnt long before the PC eventually crashed along with several mates who had used the same licence key
The license key had sod all to do with the PC's crashing.

The crashing was either down to crap hardware, a crap installation, or a combo of both.

Or user error  ::)

As said license key has naff all to do with the running of windows 98.
There is that possibilty, but Win 9x wasn't that great to start with TBH.
It was simply a 32 bit front end sitting on top of a 16 bit OS (DOS).
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« Reply #31 on: 14 September 2009, 20:22:01 »
ffs....yesterday it was still on their website for £50, almost ordered it aswell. I think it was home premium not pro?
In that case i think i shall live without it, not paying that amount. Used to use copies of OS's that wern't legit but my XP a few years ago came up on startup that it was dodgy
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #32 on: 14 September 2009, 20:29:29 »
£50 for Windows 7? Thats quite a good price its usually around £80 ish. They have made it harder these days to use dogey copies. As KillerWatt says, they store what keys are used and will cripple any machine using same muliple keys.

There are of course ways of stopping it sending the key, but then you don't get any updates.
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« Reply #33 on: 14 September 2009, 20:29:53 »
Amazon have a preorder for £64
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #34 on: 14 September 2009, 20:30:26 »
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Amazon have a preorder for £64

Well worth it!
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« Reply #35 on: 14 September 2009, 20:35:18 »
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£50 for Windows 7? Thats quite a good price its usually around £80 ish. They have made it harder these days to use dogey copies. As KillerWatt says, they store what keys are used and will cripple any machine using same muliple keys.

There are of course ways of stopping it sending the key, but then you don't get any updates.
You don't stop it from sending the key (in fact, you can't stop it). What you do is patch one particular system file (wga.dll to be precise), and you get the updates all day long.

Same aplies to Vista Ultimate & Win 7...patch it properly and it just works.
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« Reply #36 on: 14 September 2009, 20:39:15 »
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£50 for Windows 7? Thats quite a good price its usually around £80 ish. They have made it harder these days to use dogey copies. As KillerWatt says, they store what keys are used and will cripple any machine using same muliple keys.

There are of course ways of stopping it sending the key, but then you don't get any updates.
You don't stop it from sending the key (in fact, you can't stop it). What you do is patch one particular system file (wga.dll to be precise), and you get the updates all day long.

Same aplies to Vista Ultimate & Win 7...patch it properly and it just works.

Sure i remember an old method of 'activating' windows offline, and keeping it offline, then patching something, before going online. Must have been an out dated method  :-/
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #37 on: 14 September 2009, 20:43:43 »
Rumour going round the office that MS will be offering a "special deal" to those running the RC windows 7 versions to upgrade to full release.

Anyone know owt about that ???

I've got the RC on a seperate hard-drive and am playing around with it, one thing I can't get it to do is to "remember" window size in IE .. always opens in a reduced window not full screen.. :(

Is certainly pretty quick and stable ... also not had any problems finding working drivers .. even for the crappy old web cam   :)
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« Reply #38 on: 14 September 2009, 21:01:43 »
i plugged in a old USB wireless stick i had lying around, picked it up in seconds, all drivers installed, then listed all the wireless networks around. Its what Vista should have been.
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #39 on: 14 September 2009, 21:04:09 »
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ffs....yesterday it was still on their website for £50, almost ordered it aswell. I think it was home premium not pro?
In that case i think i shall live without it, not paying that amount. Used to use copies of OS's that wern't legit but my XP a few years ago came up on startup that it was dodgy


So are th any other £50 offers on the go.  Have seen amazon just under65.
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« Reply #40 on: 14 September 2009, 21:06:55 »
Is the Amazon £65 version Ultimate?
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Is the Amazon £65 version Ultimate?


No
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« Reply #43 on: 14 September 2009, 21:08:23 »
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Is the Amazon £65 version Ultimate?


No

break that then ;D
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Re: Windows 7
« Reply #44 on: 14 September 2009, 21:11:19 »
running ultimate here, not sure what the spec is across the different versions but having Media Centre is a bonus. (its hooked up to the 46" Bravia)

Thinking of getting a couple of NAS boxes for all shared tunes, videos and pictures.
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