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Windows 7 home premium re-install question.

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  • 12-03-2010 11:19am
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    SuomiJohn
    Registered Users Posts: 36 ✭


    I bought windows 7 home premium a few months ago to install it on my HP Pavilion DV5 (to upgrade from vista). The copy I bought (32 bit and 64 bit)said it would install on 3 machines.

    I Installed it on my laptop and also my girlfriends laptop, so i should have one install left on another machine. My laptop has become quite full and I want to do a clean install, so my question is, will this use up my last install on the windows pack I bought? Or when i go to register it, will it read the MAC on the laptop and just see it as re-install on the same machine?

    Thanks for reading!


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,732 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    it should by rights be activated against the same hardware

    on XP there was a file called wpa.dbl which contained the authentication , so you could re-use it against the same hardware, not sure if there is similar in Windows 7

    at the worst you could ring them up to activate over the phone


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