I installed win 7 on a laptop to see what it could do but not to use it. The laptop doesn't have an internet connection so had to use the phone method.to Install it. I installed software that I bought to see what it would do on win 7. Alot of of message boxes came up giving me 24 hours to reactive or it would shut down forever. I left the test software on being affraid that if I removed it, it would do it again. Win 7 is now on my junk software list.
cheers DS On Wed, 19 Apr 2017 17:06:59 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:17 PM, Dale E Sterner <sunbeam...@juno.com> > wrote: > > With windows if your PC dies and you want to move > > to a dupicate and keep running - your out of luck. > > Not really. Been there, done that. > > On my old, built-from components PC, I moved XP several times. I > made > changes to the underlying system and Windows wanted to > reauthenticate. > > The time before last, online authentication failed, and I wound up > speaking to a Microsoft rep. His concern was solely that I wasn't > trying to run the *same* copy of Windows on more than one machine at > a > time. "Nope. Same physical machine. I had a hardware failure and > had to get a new motherboard." He got me authenticated. > > The next time I had to do so, online authentication worked with no > issues - MS had made changes to the online authentication site, and > whatever made it fail before no longer bit. > > > Windows ability to detect small changes is amazing - > > it just wants to stop. > > Windows has an intimate relationship with the hardware. It *is* an > OS. If you *make* hardware changes, it will notice. Whether it > wants > to stop will depend on the hardware you changed. Video cards, hard > drives, and RAM shouldn't cause a problem. Motherboard changes > will. > As far as Windows is concerned, that's a new machine. > > > Win 7 is such a pain to deal with I think even DOS could beat it. > > I've run Win7, and can't agree. I was quite happy with Win7. These > days, I run Win10, and I'm generally pleased with it. (I run the > Pro > version in both cases.) > > It follows the "every *other* release of Windows is decent" pattern. > I avoided Vista like the plague, but was happy with Win7. I avoided > 8.1 but am generally pleased with Win10. > > Of course, I have the hardware to properly support it, and know what > I'm doing. > > The current desktop is a replacement for a failed older one. The > older one came with Win7, and I upgraded to Win10. I'd done that on > three laptops with no issues. The desktop was "new and different > Win10 BSODs - collect the whole set!", and I was. The new machine > is > rock solid and stable, but it's also faster and more powerful > hardware. My conclusion was that the older machine could run Win7 > but > wasn't really up to Win10, even though it would install without > issues. (One annoying quirk was that it was a quad-core machine but > Win10 only saw two cores. The Xeon CPU is used wasn't on the > "supported by Win10 list Intel maintains. The i5-2400 in the new > box > is, and Win10 sees and uses all four cores.) > > Something like that happened in the Win Vista days. MS wanted > everyone on Vista, but some of the hardware in the pipeline wasn't > really up to running it. (Mostly, inadequate video.) MS created a > new level of certification - Vista Capable - so hardware vendors > could > put it on the box. Jim Allchin, who was SVP in charge of Windows > development at the time, was livid. He felt, correctly, that the > hardware would not provide a good experience for users and that MS > would get yet another black eye in the marketplace. MS really > should > have waited 6 months for a new generation of hardware that would > properly support Vista, but wanted to make XP go away. > > > Every time I install new software it wants to be > > reauthenticated. > > Win7? That never happened here. Are you sure it got properly > authenticated in the first place? > > What new software triggers a request for reauthentication? > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ____________________________________________________________ Police Urge Americans to Carry This With Them at All Times The Observer http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/58f8bb84c98a33b844109st04duc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
