Registering Win7

On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, 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?
> Thanks,
> Buffalo

You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
activate it, both are already done for you.

Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
store separately from the computer and install afterwards.

Yousuf Khan

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:34:40 -0700, Frank wrote:

> On 8/28/2010 7:58 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, 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?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Buffalo
>>
>> You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
>> got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
>> activate it, both are already done for you.
>>
>> Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
>> store separately from the computer and install afterwards.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> It may be activated but I seriously doubt it will be registered, as that
> is up to the actual users to do, if they so desire.

Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
idea who the user will be...

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:34:40 -0700, Frank wrote:
>
>> On 8/28/2010 7:58 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>> On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, 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?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Buffalo
>>> You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
>>> got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
>>> activate it, both are already done for you.
>>>
>>> Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
>>> store separately from the computer and install afterwards.
>>>
>>> Yousuf Khan
>> It may be activated but I seriously doubt it will be registered, as that
>> is up to the actual users to do, if they so desire.
>
> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
> idea who the user will be...

They do if it's a custom built PC...


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Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Postbox 2.0.0b2
Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:20:02 PM

On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
> idea who the user will be...
>

Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
then change later on.

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan <> écrivait news:4c79b916$-
lp.com:

> On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
>> idea who the user will be...
>>
>
> Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
> then change later on.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Maybe but they don't register it with M$.

On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:34:10 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

> On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
>> idea who the user will be...
>>
>
> Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
> then change later on.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Or maybe "Microsoft".

I have seen (and had to fix) that.

It still asked me to register, IIRC, which corroborates what Doum said.

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Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)