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Ok Voyager here's another question mate.

Half a dozen people bring you boxes that they have hand built and want an operating system ok?

All you have is an unbranded OEM.

What do you do now?
 
Wolfeymole said:
Ok Voyager here's another question mate.

Half a dozen people bring you boxes that they have hand built and want an operating system ok?

All you have is an unbranded OEM.

What do you do now?
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Do they have a license on the box already? If not, then I tell them too bad; I don't have a license for any of them. (Legally that's what I do.)

What do I actually do though? Well, I'm not gonna say.
 
A bare boned newly built system obviously would not have any licensing key on the box.

I've been in this game since 3.1 and one gets to know a few things in that time.

Anyway can we call a halt to this debate as I do not wish to continually point out facts of which you are unaware?

I hope we can be at least civil towards each other as I shall continue to make posts on a regular basis at this fine forum.

Cheers Voyager. :)
 
Wolfeymole said:
Ok here's a question ok?

You guys seem to think that using either an unbranded or branded OEM on any other machine other than what it was originally installed on to do multiple installs is ok yes?
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OEM what? When we're talking about the "original install" the method of installation doesn't matter. You can download the trial version of Windows 7 directly from Microsoft, burn it yourself, and then purchase an activation through Windows 7 to end with a genuine activated copy. There are multiple different ways to install Windows, the method doesn't really matter, what matters is that it's activated with a genuine serial key and in the case of OEM Windows (as opposed to Retail, branded or unbranded doesn't matter for this) that serial key is then tied to that particular motherboard in that particular machine and cannot legally be used on another machine.


Wolfeymole said:
Ok Voyager here's another question mate.

Half a dozen people bring you boxes that they have hand built and want an operating system ok?

All you have is an unbranded OEM.

What do you do now?
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If they want an operating system then their going to have to pay for it. The point that you seem just absolutely oblivious to is that the WINDOWS LICENSE IS LINKED TO THE SERIAL KEY, NOT TO THE INSTALLATION DISC.

EDIT:
My question to you, if someone comes in with a failed hard drive, no restore discs what do you do?
 
I do what Voyager does, ask him.

First mate: "Is that the Black Pearl I see on the horizon Captain?"

Captain: "No we are already on the Black Pearl!"
 
Wolfeymole said:
I do what Voyager does, ask him.

First mate: "Is that the Black Pearl I see on the horizon Captain?"

Captain: "No we are already on the Black Pearl!"
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What I meant was a failed hard drive on a machine that came with a preinstalled OS. Let's also say that this particular person never got restore discs with their machine, but had a recovery partition.

Even though most manufactures have replacement discs available and most repair centers have stock discs for just this sort of thing, you seem to be indicating that they would have to buy a brand new retail copy of Windows.
 
Back in the good old Windows 95 and 98 days one would get the operating system disk with the computer which would usually say "For re-installation to a Dell PC (example) only".

The onus now is for the end user to make recovery disks which in my opinion is quite outrageous.

If one does not make recovery disks which are not the same as a full re-install disk that was supplied in 9x then one has to buy them from the OEM provider such as Dell or Compaq for example.

Even though I have not asked the question one may conjecture that should one not have made Recovery disks or is not prepared to buy recovery disks from the originating supplier how is one to proceed?
 
What a debate my thread is causing. I used a friends disc and the key what was on my laptop already and phoned MS and all done
 
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