Students Can Get Windows 7 For £30
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biscuitboy
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Hmmm, not too sure about the upgrade thing...
You could fool the Office upgrade edition back in the day by pointing the installer back at the office disk and it found an install!
May work..
If it is an upgrade, going from 32bit vista to 64bit 7 would be problematic!
Unless I could just use the CDkey in my RTM windows 7 to activate it? would pay for that!
You could fool the Office upgrade edition back in the day by pointing the installer back at the office disk and it found an install!
May work..If it is an upgrade, going from 32bit vista to 64bit 7 would be problematic!
Unless I could just use the CDkey in my RTM windows 7 to activate it? would pay for that!
name='biscuitboy' said:Hmmm, not too sure about the upgrade thing...
You could fool the Office upgrade edition back in the day by pointing the installer back at the office disk and it found an install!
If it is an upgrade, going from 32bit vista to 64bit 7 would be problematic!
Unless I could just use the CDkey in my RTM windows 7 to activate it? would pay for that!
I guess the best thing to do for the time being would be to use the RTM to perform an 'upgrade' install rather than a standard install. It'd certainly let you know if there will be any problems going 32-64bit. Of course if you didn't activate it by the time you got the new key it'd probably deactivate and you'd have to do it all again
May be better off just buying it and selling it on if it's no good
alexhull24
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Can't you just do the upgrade over itself dealio that you could with Vista upgrades? That's what I did with my student copy of vista ultimate.
I honestly hate the term "student"
When it comes to this kind of thing why do they say students when they blatently dont mean it!
It should be £30 for anyone who goes to uni.
I'm a fulltime student,i dont have to be in school, but i chose to stay on, yet i dont qualify because i dont have a .ac email address
This kind of thing really bugs me
When it comes to this kind of thing why do they say students when they blatently dont mean it!
It should be £30 for anyone who goes to uni.
I'm a fulltime student,i dont have to be in school, but i chose to stay on, yet i dont qualify because i dont have a .ac email address
This kind of thing really bugs me
Ducky Spud
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Just signed up for it now. Looks like its an upgrade you download, just run an executable file and it upgrades your system and keeps your files (or so it says 
), or you can run a 'custom' install where it will wipe a partition and install it on there like normal.
Also, they try and make you buy the Home version, but theres a little link at the bottom to Windows 7 Professional, still for only £30! Ive gone for 64bit Professional, £30 not bad
), or you can run a 'custom' install where it will wipe a partition and install it on there like normal.Also, they try and make you buy the Home version, but theres a little link at the bottom to Windows 7 Professional, still for only £30! Ive gone for 64bit Professional, £30
not badDucky Spud
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Cant get ultimate, just professional. Its just where you click to buy Home, underneath it says somthing about needing to connect to a certain network, click here and its the link to professional for £30
name='Ham' said:
It is an upgrade and not a full install so you will need a pre-installed OS on the hard drive/partition.
Bit lame.
Stupid thing is that it is called an upgrade when it will wipe your hard drive out and install 7.
Unless you have the Vista equivalent, you will need to do a "wipe-out upgrade".
Ducky Spud
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I was using Win7 RC on my HDD. Downloaded the student version of Windows 7 Professional yesterday and installed it on my SSD's, no problems at all. The only other OS I had installed was RC so there is no need to reinstall XP or Vista which is what I was thinking I would have to do. Much easier
Using it now, all running fine and such
Using it now, all running fine and such
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