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    Windows 7 from Sony -help please

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Affy, Nov 4, 2009.

  1. Affy

    Affy Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bought a laptop from from Sony's website in mid September. I ended up returning it a week later due to unexpectedly poor performance. Anyways, this laptop was available for a free Windows 7 upgrade.

    Today I received a package in the mail, I opened it and found that Sony sent me the Windows 7 upgrade disk despite me no longer having their laptop.

    So my question is what do I do?

    I have a cyberpowerpc desktop that is running Vista. I would love to just do a clean install on my desktop, but I'm not sure if there would be compatibility issues or anything.
     
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  2. timtravel42

    timtravel42 Notebook Virtuoso

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    it is technically not legal to install it on your desktop, even more so because you do not still own the original computer
     
    timtravel42, Nov 4, 2009
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