{"id":30,"date":"2010-01-02T22:10:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T03:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darwin-mach.net\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-05-09T00:14:25","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:14:25","slug":"clean-installation-w-windows-upgrade-keys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/02\/clean-installation-w-windows-upgrade-keys\/","title":{"rendered":"Clean Installation w\/ Windows Upgrade Keys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smile \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>You can use an Vista or Windows 7 upgrade key to do a clean install of their respective operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>How? Do a clean install of Windows. Then run the installer (from the DVD) inside the unactivated copy of Windows you just installed to &#8220;upgrade&#8221;. Your installation is now marked as an upgrade and you can activate Windows with your upgrade key. Make sure you pick the same version of Windows &amp; architecture (x86 vs x64) you are licensed for both times.<\/p>\n<p>What this means for you? You never have to pay full price for Windows, unless of course, if you can&#8217;t wait for the second install.<\/p>\n<p>Additional tip: Create a bootable USB flash drive (at least 4GB) from the installation DVD and use that instead. Each install can then be done in about 10-15 minutes since it&#8217;s not using the optical media.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: Update with an alternative method (seems to be more reliable to me).<\/p>\n<ol>Install Windows as described above (the first time).<\/ol>\n<ol>Open the registry editor and change the &#8220;MediaBootInstall&#8221; DWORD value in HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\OOBE\\ from 1 to 0.<\/ol>\n<ol>Open an administrative command prompt and run the command &#8220;slmgr\/rearm&#8221;.<\/ol>\n<ol>Reboot, then enter your key from the Computer Properties and activate.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smile \ud83d\ude42 You can use an Vista or Windows 7 upgrade key to do a clean install of their respective operating systems. How? Do a clean install of Windows. Then run the installer (from the DVD) inside the unactivated copy of Windows you just installed to &#8220;upgrade&#8221;. Your installation is now marked as an upgrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[38,39,37,36],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips","tag-licensing","tag-m","tag-upgrade","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmach.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}