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    Formatted and reloaded Windows 7 on my new 1645...

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Jedis, Jun 18, 2010.

  1. Jedis

    Jedis Notebook Consultant

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    It came with Home Premium and I used an Ultimate dvd I got from Dell... it never even asked for a key during installation. System status shows activated.

    What can I do to make sure I don't run into genuine issues down the road? I thought Dell systems were BIOS locked to what version of the OS they came preinstalled with?
     
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    fred2028 Sexy member

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    Wrong, BIOS isn't locked to an OS. Just enter your Ultimate key into your current 7 and you will be upgraded to Ultimate immediately. Run Windows Update a few times and install everything.
     
    fred2028, Jun 18, 2010
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    Dell's Windows discs will work regardless of addition without requiring a CD-key or activation as long as it's a similarly classed Dell system. It doesn't do any check other than if it's a compatible Dell system. I have one laptop that's in my sig that came with Windows 7 Ultimate and my Dell XPS desktop that was bought with only Home Premium accepted the Ultimate disc from the laptop without issue, and as far as I can tell Microsoft doesn't do any genuine checks or activation checks so there's no reason to worry about de-activation.
     
    gaah, Jun 19, 2010
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