On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 16:37:00 -0400, Big Al wrote:

On 07/05/2018 04:28 PM, Big Al wrote:
On 07/05/2018 01:36 PM, Ed Cryer wrote:
I'm fed up with Windows 10 on a machine I bought.
I want Win7! I want Win7!

This site offers Win7 Pro for 13.99 GBP.
https://goo.gl/rBddg4

Has anybody bought this? Or does anyone know a better place?

Ed
Do you own a copy of Windows 7 already but don't have the CD?Â* The ISO
is readily available for free, all you need is the CD Key from your old
windows 7.Â*Â* You never gave any info how you got win 10, I'm guessing an
upgrade from 7 or you got the machine that way.

One big issue with going from 10 to 7 on a preloaded machine is drivers.
Â*Investigate that first.Â*Â* No drivers=No workie!

Me personally, I'm not secure with these sites selling $10 copies of
OSs.Â* They could be valid from trashed PCs.

I always shop places like Newegg.com in the US.

Ebay has a lot of them. I question a few of them after reading them,
they may be OEM and from one experience with OEM, it only works on the
PC it was installed on. Moving to another PC does not work as it looks
at the motherboard and verifies it's on the right machine. Dell is
famous for that.



It's not just one experience and it's not just Dell. That's
Microsoft's rule. An OEM copy is licensed for use only on the
original computer it was installed on, and it may not be moved to
another one. And Microsoft considers that if you change the
motherboard, it's a different computer.

One might argue that since the OEM sticker with the product key is
affixed to the computer's case, it's the case that defines the
original computer, and you should be able to continue to use the OEM
copy if you change everything within the case, as long as you keep the
case. But I wouldn't want to fight Microsoft in court.