Is it possible, or will Microsoft get pissed?

**Phyrelight** · 11-28-09, 11:21 AM

Originally Posted by BigHub

True... but.

My dad was the one who paid for the OS for his company... So Bill Gates can suck my balls.

IF the PC is listed on the books at your company as THEIR property and not yours AND they claim it in the OEM numbers they report to Microsoft for licensing then it is in fact legal...otherwise it is not. We use OEM licensing at my work and some staff have work PC's at home, it's legal to install the OEM on their home work system as long as it's owned by the business unit and not the individual.

**Cybs** · 11-28-09, 01:11 PM

Hey man, you asked and we presented you with the reality of Microsoft licensing which is pretty generic to all software licensing. You can do what you want.

**BigHub** · 11-28-09, 07:09 PM

I know, I figured that much because I wasn't really going to use that disc anyways... was just wondering.

It's an HP laptop, so I definitey cannot do a full system reinstall since

1. It didn't come with a disc

2. HP laptops have crazy shit installed on it that it needs, like bigdog said.

So I tried to do a sytem restore to back when we first got it. Except the oldest restore point on there is from like 2 months ago, not 2 years. So wtf..

So I just uninstalled all un-needed programs and now I'm defragging. Hopefully this works. POS.

**Cybs** · 11-28-09, 07:36 PM

I just hope it isn't corrupted to the point of it never really coming back to what it was.

**WileECyte** · 11-28-09, 09:20 PM

Everything you need to install for 99.9% of all HP laptops is downloadable from their support site. I NEVER leave the base OS install on ANY laptop I purchase, and always wipe clean with my own OS install. I've not ever run into a case where it wouldn't work.

The ASUS I'm using right now had hardware that was supported out of the box by Windows 7. The one driver I had to replace was the webcam driver. The one included with Windows 7 caused the video to be flipped upside down.

My wife's HP and my old Compaq were all re-loaded from a standard Vista Home Premium OEM CD using the key that came with the laptop.

**vectus** · 11-29-09, 03:36 PM

Originally Posted by BigHub

I hate Windows 7. I'm on my mom's new laptop and that's what she has, and I absolutely hate it.

XP is probably the BEST OS that Microsoft has come out with, IMO. It isn't full of shit that you do not need and it doesn't hog resources. That's why I want to stay with XP.

Windows 7 is fantastic. It has the speed of XP with the features of a modern OS. After using 7 or Vista, going back to XP is a pain. XP was riddled with issues at launch just like Vista was. 7 got nothing but praise. I would say that 7 is their best OS. It doesn't really hog resources. Then again, if you are worried about an OS hogging resources, perhaps it's time to catch up to the current hardware and upgrade.

Times change