It may be used to install and activate either Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit or Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit. I have installed many computers from a plethora of different manufacturers using the same Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1 retail installation discs and never had a problem activating them with their original OEM product keys.Įven if the original product key has rubbed off of the bottom of the computer and cannot be read, it is often still possible to activate the computer the same way the OEM did when it shipped from the factory. You can download my utility for doing this here and read my explanation of why this works here. So here's some insight, I have to install Windows 7 in an old machine since that's what my friend prefers. So far, starting from the refreshed image of SP1 I've done the following: Given the myriad of updates there are for that OS right now I was wondering what would be the quickest route to a fully updated system, in essence, installing the less updates possible. KB3004394: For the updated root certificates. KB3020369: April 2015 Servicing Stack updated (+ the current version of the Windows Update agent).
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