W10 activation issue

snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca explained :

Naaaaa....The call from MS took care of the problem, and now I have an activated issue of W10 pro 64 bit. ^^

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Eagle
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Oren explained :

That was strange having someone controling My 'puter from afar.

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Eagle

If you are on the fast ring - 11082

Reply to
Arthur Conan Doyle

As to "the built-in modem will not load", I suppose you mean the driver for a "soft modem" that requires software.

As to activation, I'm wondering how much you actually lose by not having W10 activated (other than that reminder).

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Mark Lloyd
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I have a laptop with a WiMax interface in it. That might be called a modem.

WiMax was never available where I am, so I never got to use that interface. Now they use LTE (I know both Verizon and Sprint have it here).

BTW, when I had POTS dial-up, the ISP had a rule about disconnecting a user after 4 hours regardless of activity. I could never connect long enough to download a DVD ISO. IIRC some ISPs allowed 12 hours, but that's still a lot less than the more than 185 hours (more than a week) you'd need.

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Reply to
Mark Lloyd

So far I don't see much other than no beg to activate. I'm thinking on installing My 40 gig HD and run linux. The new builds look like they work more better now.

Reply to
Eagle

If you don't activate it, you don't get update, etc. You could just update w7 to W10, if it can't it'll put back every back to W7. Modem? You use it for faxing or modem? All my desk top, laptops updated to W10 without a hitch. I manually updated to have triboot(Linux, W7, W10) I need W7 and IE to flash blade for remote starter kit. If you call MS, no warm body answers, just follow thru accordig to the prerecorded message, you better have good hearing and good typing speed or you'll spend quite a while to finish the process.

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Tony Hwang

Already done Tony. I like W7 more better, but I'm getting used to W10. I like Edge over IE for sure. I use Chrome as well so IE doesn't get used. I had an issue with email, but cured that by going with T-Bird. All in all W10 gets the job done Ya Ya!

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Eagle

Unless , like me , you have another computer that you can use to download the correct driver and load it onto a USB stick . DUH .

Reply to
Terry Coombs

It doesn't matter how outdated the comp is , you can still use it to DL the win7 driver you need and load it on a thumb drive . P4 and WIN2K/SP4 will do that ...

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Terry Coombs

DUH? I have the driver on one of My 8 gig USB sticks, and it didn't do any good DUH.

Reply to
Eagle

And your point is?

Reply to
Eagle

Duh, you have to point where your driver files are(your USB stick) make sure none are zipped or compressed form. Sounds like you are not really upto it. Just download mediacreationtool(64 bit or 32 bit version) depending your upgrade candidate. Run this utility, follow up step by step. If you are unable to do this, you need babysitting help holding your hands..

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Tony Hwang

With the current atmosphere vis-a-vis Windows , Ubuntu is looking better and better ... I wonder if they might be subtly sabotaging XP , seems odd little quirks are popping up more and more often lately ... Gotta win the wife over though for a change that big . GUI is pretty good , but the "feel" is different .

Reply to
Terry Coombs

Have you turned off the spyware yet ?

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Terry Coombs

That getting the proper W7 wireless LAN driver for that comp and installing it was not a problem .

Reply to
Terry Coombs

Then you DL'ed the wrong driver DUH . Hey , I did the same thing just the other day for the wife's laptop , took me 3 tries before I found one that worked . Still can't figure out what happened , she's been using that comp for months with no issues (other than overheating ...) .

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Terry Coombs

Some things I do such as flashing blade for remote starter, Only IE is compatible. (Using iDATA link web link flash utility) Omega link, Compustar link is same.) When I am not on Linux, I use W7 Ultimate 64 bit. I even have to play with DOS....

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Tony Hwang

Made wife addict to iPAD, LOL! Ubuntu is now charging some nice apps. like W10.

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Tony Hwang

The one I was working on today wouldn't even install 10 because 7 wasn't activated - at least Win10 upgrade says it isn't activated.

I'll see when I get back to it - likely tomorrow.

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clare

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