Registering Win7

This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
Do you have to register it with MS?
What happens if you don't?
How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to register
it?
Thanks,
Buffalo

"Buffalo" <> wrote in message
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> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
> Do you have to register it with MS?
> What happens if you don't?
> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
> register
> it?
> Thanks,
> Buffalo
>
>

You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually you have
30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't activate.

Colon Oscopy wrote:
> "Buffalo" <> wrote in message
> news:i543r7$2n8$...
>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>> What happens if you don't?
>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>> register
>> it?
>> Thanks,
>> Buffalo
>>
>>
>
> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually
> you have 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't
> activate.

Thanks, I will inform her of that.
What happens if you don't activate it?
Buffalo

"Buffalo" <> wrote in message
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>
> Colon Oscopy wrote:
>> "Buffalo" <> wrote in message
>> news:i543r7$2n8$...
>>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>>> What happens if you don't?
>>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>>> register
>>> it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Buffalo
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually
>> you have 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't
>> activate.
>
> Thanks, I will inform her of that.
> What happens if you don't activate it?
> Buffalo
>
>

Windows will not work properly.

"Colon Oscopy" <> écrivait news::

>
>
> "Buffalo" <> wrote in message
> news:i543r7$2n8$...
>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>> What happens if you don't?
>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>> register
>> it?
>> Thanks,
>> Buffalo
>>
>>
>
> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually you
have
> 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't activate.
>

I don't think so, branded OEM Windows are pre-activated and probably BIOS
locked.

Unless that has change with Win7. I bought a laptop and a netbook in the
past that came with XP factory installed and I never had to activate
Windows.

Hi, Buffalo.

The official word can be found by starting here:
Windows 7 Solution Center
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/14019/en-us#tab1

One more click from there gets you:
Activate Windows 7 on this computer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-this-computer

As the others said, Activation is required. Registration is not.

RC
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"Buffalo" wrote in message news:i543r7$2n8$...

This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
Do you have to register it with MS?
What happens if you don't?
How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to register
it?
Thanks,
Buffalo

"Doum" <> wrote in message
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> "Colon Oscopy" <> écrivait
> news::
> I don't think so, branded OEM Windows are pre-activated and probably BIOS
> locked.
>
> Unless that has change with Win7. I bought a laptop and a netbook in the
> past that came with XP factory installed and I never had to activate
> Windows.
>
>

I have bought 3 laptops since Win 7 came out and none needed to be
activated. I just fired them up and started using them. I did have to
validate the first time I tried to install something from MS like antivirus
but Windows never asked me to activate it.
--
I think drug tests are great. Since I have to pass them to earn money to pay
taxes, Everyone on, or applying for welfare should have to pass them to get
some of my money.

R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Buffalo.
>
> The official word can be found by starting here:
> Windows 7 Solution Center
> http://support.microsoft.com/ph/14019/en-us#tab1
>
> One more click from there gets you:
> Activate Windows 7 on this computer
>
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...-this-computer
>
> As the others said, Activation is required. Registration is not.
>
> RC

Thanks for your input and links.
Buffalo

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:01:07 -0600, "Buffalo"
<> wrote:

>This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>Do you have to register it with MS?

Maybe look at the instructions that would have come with the
laptop. If no hard copy check the HDD.

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:01:07 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it) Do you have to
> register it with MS?
> What happens if you don't?
> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
> register it?

Registering a Windows OS is optional, activation is mandatory. Though
usually pc's with windows preinstalled have already been activated.