On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Your reply made me think of something. I had a XP reinstall once that > required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive. They > said it recognized the change in the serial numbers. When I ran into > that before tho, it installed fine but gave 30 days to put in the > number. Does winders 7 have something similar?
When you install Windows 7, Vista or XP (SP3 or newer), you can actually skip the product key step and it'll install as a trial version (30-day? 90-day? something like that). You can then "upgrade" to the real version by activating it when you're comfortable that everything is working properly -- or don't activate it at all and install Gentoo. Trying to keep it on-topic. :)
