Someone called me with this question and I don't have the answer.
He installed an eval of vista and it has expired. He has the rtm of win
7 with a key and was hoping to do an in place upgrade. Is this possible?
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2009 15:42:13
To: NT System Admin Issuesntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
Subject: upgrading an expired Vista eval
Someone called me with this question and I don't have the answer.
He installed an eval of vista and it has expired. He has the rtm of win
7 with a key and was hoping to do
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 9:06 PM, asbz...@gmail.com wrote:
You have to be able to boot into the current OS to perform an in-place
upgrade. And an expired OS won't cooperate with that plan.
Can you do a rearm with the eval, the way you can with the regular
Vista product activation?
Maybe
you could try to rearm windows
If you install Windows 7 and don't enter an installation key, the 30-day
activation clock starts. To see how many days you have left, click Start,
right-click Computer, and choose Properties. At the bottom of the dialog
under Windows Activation, you'll see the
I can't ask him til tomorrow but can he F8 into Safe mode with command
prompt? Will rearm work from this?
-Original Message-
From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 7:15 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: upgrading an expired Vista eval
and start the Upgrade.
From: Adrian Montagnani [adrian.montagn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:18 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: upgrading an expired Vista eval
you could try to rearm windows
If you install Windows 7 and don't enter
