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Win 7 Clean Install advice wanted
I am planning to do a clean install to a new SSD. I have a lot of software on the machine. With items such as Photoshop, Norton, Lightroom and MS Office (retail version, not OEM) should I uninstall the software from the current OS before the clean install? Or will these vendors recognize that it is mostly the same hardware and hence the same machine and accept the Product Keys a 2nd time? Anything else I should look out for? I have the Dell OEM full Windows disk, so I assume that as in XP doing the reinstall will not require any phone calls to MS to activate windows... If it relevant, this is a 64 bit version of windows. Thanks, -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) |
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Win 7 Clean Install advice wanted
"Andrew" == writes:
Andrew I am planning to do a clean install to a new SSD. Andrew I have a lot of software on the machine. With items such as Andrew Photoshop, Norton, Lightroom and MS Office (retail version, Andrew not OEM) should I uninstall the software from the current OS Andrew before the clean install? Andrew Or will these vendors recognize that it is mostly the same Andrew hardware and hence the same machine and accept the Product Andrew Keys a 2nd time? Andrew Anything else I should look out for? I have the Dell OEM Andrew full Windows disk, so I assume that as in XP doing the Andrew reinstall will not require any phone calls to MS to activate Andrew windows... Andrew If it relevant, this is a 64 bit version of windows. OK, I got answers about Adobe (deactivate, then uninstall for PS, just uninstall for Lightroom), and Office (it will recognize the machine). I still do not know for Norton. -- Andrew Hall (Now reading Usenet in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell...) |
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Win 7 Clean Install advice wanted
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 18:17:52 -0500, wrote:
"Andrew" == writes: Andrew I am planning to do a clean install to a new SSD. Andrew I have a lot of software on the machine. With items such as Andrew Photoshop, Norton, Lightroom and MS Office (retail version, Andrew not OEM) should I uninstall the software from the current OS Andrew before the clean install? Andrew Or will these vendors recognize that it is mostly the same Andrew hardware and hence the same machine and accept the Product Andrew Keys a 2nd time? Andrew Anything else I should look out for? I have the Dell OEM Andrew full Windows disk, so I assume that as in XP doing the Andrew reinstall will not require any phone calls to MS to activate Andrew windows... Andrew If it relevant, this is a 64 bit version of windows. OK, I got answers about Adobe (deactivate, then uninstall for PS, just uninstall for Lightroom), and Office (it will recognize the machine). I still do not know for Norton. But that is insane. It would mean that no backup of a HDD is possible IN REAL HARDWARE by having the software on a second HDD. If Adobe insists on that, they can go to hell. (They can go to hell anyway for their espionage.) -- http://www.twitter.com/aribertdeckers http://www.Journalist.is http://www.kindersprechstunde.at http://www.pharmamafia.com http://www.medulla.at http://www.ariplex.com/folia http://www.ariplex.com/pixaloid http://www.ariplex.com/lyme/lymeblog |
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