Hi everyone,
pretty odd question to ask but in reality i can't find any where that sells a full retailer product keys for Window 7 Pro.
Did i not get the memo that These are obsolete and no one sells them at all?
also another question , i have a product key for a old laptop that doesn't have the OS on it. it had Home Premium on it and Can i use that key for the Pro version. Or will it recognize that its a Home Pre key and will let me have that rather than Pro?
Microsoft stopped selling those a long time ago. Even 8.1 can be difficult to get a hold of depending on where you live.
Your best bet would either be Ebay or those sites where you can get cheap keys that may or may not work for a long time.
Personally I'd look for a new and sealed retail box, but those tend to cost more now than they did when MS still sold them themselves. Not sure if you'll be willing to pay $250+ for an OS that's only going to be supported for 4 more years.
EDIT : As for that laptop key, the MS activation server will identify that as a Home Premium key so your Windows install will either be invalid or will automatically be downgraded to Home Premium (they did the latter on Vista, not sure if Win7 does it too).
Also, using an OEM key on another machine is a breach of the EULA and hence piracy. Just a FYI
The answer to both questions is Windows 7 loader.
It will let you pirate windows 7
AND it will let you change the windows product key to use the SLIC OEM key with your computer.
It works brilliantly. All you need is an ISO of windows 7. It will work with any version of Windows 7 (home/pro/ultimate)
hey what about kingquin? i tried using it but for some odd reason it won't work with debit cards, neither g2a.
well i was trying to aviod pirate as a last option but sadly i may have to because of this.
This is why I use Kingquin with Paypal. Works perfectly.
tbh i do not want win 10 because of all the drama with telemetry and Cortana. also I'm afraid that it will abuse my RAM on my laptop. its a core 2 duo with 8gb of ram.
im only using it for programming , scripts, VM and lightbrowser
well I'm stupid. didn't know you can link your debit card to your paypal account. that's nice.
The telemetry stuff is back ported. Your not getting rid of it if your using windows and honestly if your wanting to use windows stop letting telemetry get in the way. If that is an issue then don't use windows... (Which really, have you considered it?) If you need specific games just keep windows 10 for games as a partition of VM with past though . In that case there's no reason to care about telemetry because you never use it.
... which isn't much of an issue if you selectively install updates on your Win7 or Win8.1 .
Are you saying a hardware firewall is useless too?
you have to update the rules constantly as they change and add address that it phones home to. and dont forget that some of them are for skype and msn it self and those also are phone home connections. so yes in a way a hardware firewall will work. but its best to be on windows 7 selectively install updates. and if u do happen to use 10 dont use a live account. and dont link any of your email accounts or any on line accounts to the user.
Oh look, greymarket licenses... totally legal.
legally gray market keys are ok. companies like M$ try to get around it by making you agree to a eula.
If you are a university student or a student in general, you can get a Windows 8.1 embedded industry pro though Microsoft dreamspark.
Then you can install Windows 9 which is a mod on Windows 8.1 embedded industry pro.
That's My setup.
Otherwise I would try looking for the retail box as Kinguin and G2A don't get legitimate keys.
The last time I bought a "legitimate" key was for malwarebytes, which turned out to be a fake stolen one after I contacted malwarebytes customer support. Luckily the customer service for malwarebytes gave me a free year key, and I got a refund from Amazon. "Anyone can create an account on Amazon and sell through Amazon. Again, Amazon is NOT an approved reseller of our products hence they do NOT receive anything from us to sell. Many keys on Amazon are fraudulent, pirated or generated from a key generator on the internet. The reason your license does not activate is because it is a fraudulent license"Going on a tangent with online key sellers/my experience with a fake malwarebytes key
This is what customer support said about the keys when I asked how a retailer can obtain them.
Probably not. At best it's a grey area... which is why they are called greymarket.
Isn't imaginary property law wonderful?