mike wrote:

I'm not sure but I thought you had a Dell. Did you get a generic OEM or
a Dell OEM from that idiot? Dell OEM versions are pre-registered and the
info in the BIOS precludes doing any registering or validating. You
could use a "Windows 7 loader". That is a software patch that fools the
OS with an OEM BIOS patch into thinking it's pre-registered. Don't ask
how I know this.

The lawyers and nit-pickers will argue this till eternity, but
if you have a valid COA sticker on the machine, you probably won't go to
jail for running the OS, no matter where or how you got the ones and zeros.


I had an XP computer to repair for someone, and it claimed XP was
fake because the date was set wrong.


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