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From Win8 to Win7
I have a Windows 8 Pro that I bought many years ago and never used.
There are two DVDs, one 32-bit, one 64-bit, and a Windows 8 Product Key on a card. Now, I don't want Win8, but I do want Win7. Can anybody figure a path from what I have to Win7? Ed |
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From Win8 to Win7
Ed Cryer wrote:
I have a Windows 8 Pro that I bought many years ago and never used. There are two DVDs, one 32-bit, one 64-bit, and a Windows 8 Product Key on a card. Now, I don't want Win8, but I do want Win7. Can anybody figure a path from what I have to Win7? Ed Only an OEM Business class machine that ships with Pro, came with downgrade rights. And the support was not all that obvious either. You would never see "a DVD sitting on the web site", to make it easy for a customer to do such a transition. If there is a way to take Retail Boxed materials and do the same thing, I've not heard of it. I would keep the product in its pouch until hardware comes along that needs an OS. I have Win8.1 on this box, and it functions as a maintenance OS occasionally. (I do backups to a 4TB GPT partitioned disk from Win8.1.) My copy at $39.95 was a great deal, because I managed to get the free Media Center upgrade, just a few days before the cutoff date. You had to be a Ninja back at product launch, to make this purchase really worthwhile. Now, I can move my tuner card over here, if that becomes a plan. I have two tuner cards, one Media Center compatible, the other not, and this (maintenance) OS would run the compatible card if I brought it over. Also, the Win10 (not sitting on a disk at the moment) that uses this OS as qualifying material, will receive the DVD Player from the Microsoft Store for free. If you bootstrapped Media Center free upgrade into your $39.95 OS, when installing Win10 on top, the Win10 machine is allowed the appropriate MPEG codecs for native DVD playback. I bought two copies of Win8, but wasn't Ninja enough to raise them both to Media Center. The second copy was a few days past the cutoff date. The OS still has its uses. Running a PVR in the living room, if you had Media Center, might be one usage. Paul |
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From Win8 to Win7
Paul wrote:
Ed Cryer wrote: I have a Windows 8 Pro that I bought many years ago and never used. There are two DVDs, one 32-bit, one 64-bit, and a Windows 8 Product Key on a card. Now, I don't want Win8, but I do want Win7. Can anybody figure a path from what I have to Win7? Ed Only an OEM Business class machine that ships with Pro, came with downgrade rights. And the support was not all that obvious either. You would never see "a DVD sitting on the web site", to make it easy for a customer to do such a transition. If there is a way to take Retail Boxed materials and do the same thing, I've not heard of it. I would keep the product in its pouch until hardware comes along that needs an OS. I have Win8.1 on this box, and it functions as a maintenance OS occasionally. (I do backups to a 4TB GPT partitioned disk from Win8.1.) My copy at $39.95 was a great deal, because I managed to get the free Media Center upgrade, just a few days before the cutoff date. You had to be a Ninja back at product launch, to make this purchase really worthwhile. Now, I can move my tuner card over here, if that becomes a plan. I have two tuner cards, one Media Center compatible, the other not, and this (maintenance) OS would run the compatible card if I brought it over. Also, the Win10 (not sitting on a disk at the moment) that uses this OS as qualifying material, will receive the DVD Player from the Microsoft Store for free. If you bootstrapped Media Center free upgrade into your $39.95 OS, when installing Win10 on top, the Win10 machine is allowed the appropriate MPEG codecs for native DVD playback. I bought two copies of Win8, but wasn't Ninja enough to raise them both to Media Center. The second copy was a few days past the cutoff date. The OS still has its uses. Running a PVR in the living room, if you had Media Center, might be one usage. Â*Â* Paul I like your idea of using Win8 to run a PVR. I have an improvement. I'll use Win10 to run the PVR, and use win8 on the general-purpose machine; after updating free to 8.1, of course. Ed |
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