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I have read that the public beta version of Windows 7 has an expiration on it, but does the MSDN Premium also expire on the same date?
And if so, do you think that we might see a newer version before the expiration on MSDN?
For the speed improvements alone I am contemplating moving my development PC to Windows 7 over Windows Vista, stability issues aside, I am an early adopter anyway and expect issues with beta operating systems.
As I have done for a while with VStudio 10 CTP, you have the possibility to change the clock on you virtual machine when you start it. In my case, when I lunche VS10, I settle my virtual machine's clock to 11/1/2008 - and it's still running !
My MSDN version of Windows 7 says:
"Evaluation copy. Expires 7/1/2009 5:59 PM"
I imagine that they'll have another version posted by then - mabye even the RTM if we get really lucky.
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So I took my laptop (a Lenovo Yoga 2 pro) in to best buy after it had water spilled on it. They said they'd fix it under warranty and I left it with them. A few days later I came to pick it up, but with only one problem. I gave them the laptop with windows ten as it was installed during the free upgrade period. I got the laptop back with windows 8. Best buy basically said tough titties and told me they couldn't do anything. Would I be able to install windows 10 to it with no problem, or would I have to buy a copy. I heard you can install it and use the windows 8 key it came with.
What does everyone think?
So far I know, you can activate and install Windows 10 with the key of your old Windows version only if it's the one with which you upgraded to Windows 10. However it could be also possible to use other keys according to this link. Here is also shown how to reinstall Windows 10.
How to reinstall Windows 10 with your old Windows 7/8/8.1 key
Anyway because it's Windows 10 you also have a digital license which is linked with your account. So it's also possible to reinstall Windows 10 without a product key requiring only to log in with your Microsoft account. You can read yourself, just scroll to the section where it's about how to activate after reinstallation.
How to: Windows 10 activation
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I bought a Win 10 Pro retail version. Installed it on a VM on computer #1. I want to move the VM to computer #2 for a few months, then I'll want to move it to computer #3. Can I do that license wise?
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Back story if anybody cares: My 4 year old Macbook Air was clinging to life by it's fingernails, it finally died. I bought Win 10 and installed it as VM on my Wife's newer Air. I just put a new logic board in my Old Air and want to move the Win 10 to it. If Apple ever actually releases the new Macbook Pros I'll be getting one of them and would like to transfer the VM and license a 3rd time... :)
yes you can do this licence wise so long as you never have it installed on one computer at once, the windows 10 licence agreement states that you may move it from one machine to another as long as it is never installed on more than one at once.
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everyone!
I need your help!
I am running Windows 8.1 Pro x64.
I reinstalled it, but the problem is remaining.
BSOD happens about 1-2 time in a day.
I noticed that if it happens, it frequently happens in few minutes after I start to download something using "uTorrent".
Motherboard: "Asus M4A78LT-M LE". My network driver: "Qualcomm Atheros AR8131 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.30)".
I tried to install an old version, but the problem did remain.
My UAC and Windows Defender are off. Firewall is on.
Here's a link to some info I extracted:
http://www.beetxt.com/printable.php?view=ydP
(sorry it's in russian, cause I have russian Windows)
Here are the dump files (they are in .rar archive):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByigE0NW6WLIaUpKSkgtcnFqR1E/view?usp=sharing
Thanks for the attention!
If it comes up again, it's probably L1C63x64.sys, not tcpip.sys. It's the driver of your qualcomm card, shows up in the stack of two of your minidumps just before tcpip.sys. Its timestamp is April 01 2013, while there is supposedly a newer one on your motherboard's support site, updated at 2013/09/30.
Another option is giving a shot to an unofficial driver, as a last resort solution.
Check Windows Event Log for events near the BSOD time. You are having a problem with tcpip.sys driver.
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What is it's background and "inspiration" if any? Does it by any chance have fragments of Unix DNA deep within it but not disclosed for whatever reasons?
No it wasn't.
MS-DOS was a renamed and ported to IBM PC clone of CP/M OS bought from Seattle Computer Products by Microsoft (this goes to all Windows from beginning and to Windows 98/Me)
If talking about Windows based on NT, Microsoft hired a team of engineers (headed by Dave Cutler, one of DEC's VMS operating system developer) from DEC company. He was told to develop a 32-bit OS with supporting the OS/2 API. So at the end, new OS (NT OS/2) was really similar to VMS, and later, based on this new NT OS/2, Windwows NT 3.1 was released in 1993.
P.S. This information was taken from a book I've read -- Modern Operating Systems, 3-th edition. Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
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I inherited a headache. I have a small legacy (GUI) app that was developed 10 years ago and the VB6 source code is long gone. It works currently on a couple of old XP PCs and I was asked to see if I could get it working on Windows 7 64bit. Well… that was a no go, so I tried a 32bit version to verify that 64 wasn’t the issue and it didn’t work. So I then created an XP virtual machine and it didn’t work either. The issue is the same on all three environments. You double click the .exe and nothing is displayed but when you look under task manager, it’s there and pegging the CPU.
I downloaded Dependency Walker and it seems that all the required dlls and OCX files are there. Can anyone suggest anything else? I’m really at a loss here. Anything would be appreciated!
The standard approach is to download and run ProcessMonitor, set it to filter just your executable, run your executable and ProcessMonitor will capture what DLLs/Files/ Registry settings are being used by your application.
Have you confirmed you have the VB6 runtime files installed?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290887
I'm not sure if they are included in Win7 anymore and they were only in XP in one of the later service packs.