If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Windows OEM musical chairs
I own one Windows 7 Pro OEM license and one Windows 7 Home OEM license.
The Pro license is currently in use on a computer that doesn't take advantage of its advantages (specifically its RAM limit of 192 GB. My new build-in-progress has the Home license installed but not yet registered. I'd like to up the RAM on the new build to 32 GB, but I know that Home is limited to 16 GB. Is it be possible to de-register the Pro license from the old computer and install it on the new build? I'd install Home fresh on the old computer, of course. The hardware on the two computers is completely different. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Windows OEM musical chairs
Nil wrote:
I own one Windows 7 Pro OEM license and one Windows 7 Home OEM license. The Pro license is currently in use on a computer that doesn't take advantage of its advantages (specifically its RAM limit of 192 GB. My new build-in-progress has the Home license installed but not yet registered. I'd like to up the RAM on the new build to 32 GB, but I know that Home is limited to 16 GB. Is it be possible to de-register the Pro license from the old computer and install it on the new build? I'd install Home fresh on the old computer, of course. The hardware on the two computers is completely different. I don't do enough of these kinds of things to really know the answer, but it may require a phone call to the automated activation server, to get it done. In problematic cases, you might have to talk to a human, and plead your case. The best indicator, is "frequency of installation". If you've been beating the **** out of the DVD and installing Windows 7 Home over and over again on its PC, that counts against you. Even though it is following the rules, and going onto the same PC, the "activity counter" keeps track of whether you're doing something goofy or not. If the key has been "quiet" for a couple years, that works in your favor. It means you may be offered phone activation, rather than having to talk to a human. Strictly speaking, going by the rules for system builder DVDs, you cannot do that. When I did one of these, I pretended it was a "hardware failure" that caused all the hardware to be different :-) So I did get away with it on WinXP on this machine (which went from an Asrock board to an Asus board), back in the day. It actually was a hardware failure of a sort - a BIOS issue that required changing motherboards, so my WinTV card would work properly. But to the activation server, it looks like I'm "cheating" on the "one machine only" rules of installation. OEM is not supposed to be portable like that. A motherboard model change counts as a "whole different PC" to Microsoft. For an OEM System Builder license, these days it's pretty expensive (from a reputable source). But it still has those rules attached to it. When I bought my Win7 Pro System Builder for my newest computer, it was probably more expensive than when Win7 was released. Good luck, Paul |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Windows OEM musical chairs
Nil wrote:
I own one Windows 7 Pro OEM license and one Windows 7 Home OEM license. The Pro license is currently in use on a computer that doesn't take advantage of its advantages (specifically its RAM limit of 192 GB. My new build-in-progress has the Home license installed but not yet registered. I'd like to up the RAM on the new build to 32 GB, but I know that Home is limited to 16 GB. Is it be possible to de-register the Pro license from the old computer and install it on the new build? I'd install Home fresh on the old computer, of course. The hardware on the two computers is completely different. Are you asking how to violate the OEM license to work around validation? This is not a warez, hacking, or pro-piracy newsgroup. There is the contract (EULA) to which you agreed to use the software and there is what you can do to get around that contract. You already know the answer to the former. The latter is discussed elsewhere. An OEM/System Builder license permanently locks to the first computer on which it is installed. The OEM license cannot be transferred to another computer. You pay more for a retail license so you can move it around to other computers (with only one installed instance of the license active on only one computer at a time). An OEM license is a contract between you and the computer maker, not between you and Microsoft. http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...strictions.pdf |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Windows OEM musical chairs
On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:16:43 -0500, Nil
wrote: I own one Windows 7 Pro OEM license and one Windows 7 Home OEM license. The Pro license is currently in use on a computer that doesn't take advantage of its advantages (specifically its RAM limit of 192 GB. My new build-in-progress has the Home license installed but not yet registered. I'd like to up the RAM on the new build to 32 GB, but I know that Home is limited to 16 GB. Is it be possible to de-register the Pro license from the old computer and install it on the new build? I'd install Home fresh on the old computer, of course. The hardware on the two computers is completely different. Nothing much musical, when MSFT deliberately doesn't define a score. The ambiguities, apparently, can be something of a computer philosopher's Rabbit Hole. For instance, notice how the links diverge in this article. . . http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-...dware-upgrade/ .. . .into, again apparently, how you choose to define your upgrade, as opposed a significance MSFT imposes upon interpreting OEM and Retail licensing agreements. Links which will delve deeper into some discrepancies, and methodologies permitted, between MSFT and you. Foremost qualifying an OEM status, which is skewed against you, from how a Retail presentment is by intent to attract customers to spend more, for both to be within yet allowable limits, indeed, for which MSFT [dis]qualifies beyond an update, requiring a user to repurchase, in entirely, the OS from Square One. Assume to prepare for the worse. As have others, for consequent resources, (alluded to in the above links), obviously no less apparent in your predicament, which may be more or less a matter of shades to a gray legal area, you're nonetheless more or less given wisely, or discreetly, to engage. Will a disgruntled employee or observer run to report you to an MSFT 800-hotline, for illegal activity, for droves of Microsoft lawyers to descend upon you -- having not updated, say, hardware on your one-hundred Windows 7 office machines? Depending on a method and resources available, without direct MSFT oversight, I'll hazard you're small-fry, inconsequent to a grander scheme of how things actually work as enforceable, legally binding policies, to the Greater Copyrightists of the U.S. of A. Self-writs, subsection articles filed under Alice's Hole, anyway, are now by in large written and bound to Windows 10 telemetric corporate policing activities;. . .Windows 7, naaaghhh ... less a solution to the MSFT problem, these days, and just wall graffiti, where you're on "borrowed time" and limited support. - "...there is no spoon. Then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself." -Spoonboy (Matrix) |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Windows OEM musical chairs
On 08 Dec 2017, VanguardLH wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: Are you asking how to violate the OEM license to work around validation? This is not a warez, hacking, or pro-piracy newsgroup. Heavens! |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Vista and Me -- The Musical | Tom Scales | Dell Computers | 11 | July 27th 07 03:07 AM |
Playing musical chairs with RAID configuration | . | Compaq Servers | 4 | September 27th 05 04:12 AM |
Dead hard disk with musical beeps | Arnold | General | 2 | October 31st 04 11:12 AM |
Feng Shui Musical Printer | David D. | Printers | 0 | October 24th 04 02:57 AM |
Not completely off-topic- chairs | Martin Francis | UK Computer Vendors | 4 | March 1st 04 12:46 AM |