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Registering Win7

B

Buffalo

Flightless Bird
This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
Do you have to register it with MS?
What happens if you don't?
How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to register
it?
Thanks,
Buffalo
 
C

Colon Oscopy

Flightless Bird
"Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:i543r7$2n8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
> Do you have to register it with MS?
> What happens if you don't?
> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
> register
> it?
> Thanks,
> Buffalo
>
>

You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually you have
30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't activate.
 
B

Buffalo

Flightless Bird
Colon Oscopy wrote:
> "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i543r7$2n8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>> What happens if you don't?
>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>> register
>> it?
>> Thanks,
>> Buffalo
>>
>>
>
> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually
> you have 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't
> activate.

Thanks, I will inform her of that.
What happens if you don't activate it?
Buffalo
 
K

KCB

Flightless Bird
"Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
news:i546nu$dbc$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>
> Colon Oscopy wrote:
>> "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
>> news:i543r7$2n8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>>> What happens if you don't?
>>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>>> register
>>> it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Buffalo
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually
>> you have 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't
>> activate.
>
> Thanks, I will inform her of that.
> What happens if you don't activate it?
> Buffalo
>
>

Windows will not work properly.
 
D

Doum

Flightless Bird
"Colon Oscopy" <colon@oscopy.gov> écrivait news:4c75934a@news.x-privat.org:

>
>
> "Buffalo" <Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:i543r7$2n8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>> What happens if you don't?
>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>> register
>> it?
>> Thanks,
>> Buffalo
>>
>>
>
> You don't have to register it but you need to activate it. Usually you
have
> 30 days and will continue to receive reminders if you don't activate.
>

I don't think so, branded OEM Windows are pre-activated and probably BIOS
locked.

Unless that has change with Win7. I bought a laptop and a netbook in the
past that came with XP factory installed and I never had to activate
Windows.
 
R

R. C. White

Flightless Bird
Hi, Buffalo.

The official word can be found by starting here:
Windows 7 Solution Center
http://support.microsoft.com/ph/14019/en-us#tab1

One more click from there gets you:
Activate Windows 7 on this computer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/activate-windows-7-on-this-computer

As the others said, Activation is required. Registration is not.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3002.0810)) in Win7 Ultimate x64


"Buffalo" wrote in message news:i543r7$2n8$1@news.eternal-september.org...

This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
Do you have to register it with MS?
What happens if you don't?
How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to register
it?
Thanks,
Buffalo
 
A

Alex Clayton

Flightless Bird
"Doum" <me@domain.net> wrote in message
news:XnF9E04CEFC3585Edoumdomainnet@81.169.183.62...
> "Colon Oscopy" <colon@oscopy.gov> écrivait
> news:4c75934a@news.x-privat.org:
> I don't think so, branded OEM Windows are pre-activated and probably BIOS
> locked.
>
> Unless that has change with Win7. I bought a laptop and a netbook in the
> past that came with XP factory installed and I never had to activate
> Windows.
>
>

I have bought 3 laptops since Win 7 came out and none needed to be
activated. I just fired them up and started using them. I did have to
validate the first time I tried to install something from MS like antivirus
but Windows never asked me to activate it.
--
I think drug tests are great. Since I have to pass them to earn money to pay
taxes, Everyone on, or applying for welfare should have to pass them to get
some of my money.
 
N

nomail@hotmail.com

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:01:07 -0600, "Buffalo"
<Eric@nada.com.invalid> wrote:

>This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>Do you have to register it with MS?

Maybe look at the instructions that would have come with the
laptop. If no hard copy check the HDD.
 
R

Roy Smith

Flightless Bird
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:01:07 -0600, Buffalo wrote:

> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it) Do you have to
> register it with MS?
> What happens if you don't?
> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
> register it?

Registering a Windows OS is optional, activation is mandatory. Though
usually pc's with windows preinstalled have already been activated.
 
Y

Yousuf Khan

Flightless Bird
On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, Buffalo wrote:
> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
> Do you have to register it with MS?
> What happens if you don't?
> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to register
> it?
> Thanks,
> Buffalo

You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
activate it, both are already done for you.

Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
store separately from the computer and install afterwards.

Yousuf Khan
 
F

Frank

Flightless Bird
On 8/28/2010 7:58 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>> What happens if you don't?
>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>> register
>> it?
>> Thanks,
>> Buffalo
>
> You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
> got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
> activate it, both are already done for you.
>
> Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
> store separately from the computer and install afterwards.
>
> Yousuf Khan

It may be activated but I seriously doubt it will be registered, as that
is up to the actual users to do, if they so desire.
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:34:40 -0700, Frank wrote:

> On 8/28/2010 7:58 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>> On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>>> What happens if you don't?
>>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>>> register
>>> it?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Buffalo
>>
>> You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
>> got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
>> activate it, both are already done for you.
>>
>> Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
>> store separately from the computer and install afterwards.
>>
>> Yousuf Khan
>
> It may be activated but I seriously doubt it will be registered, as that
> is up to the actual users to do, if they so desire.

Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
idea who the user will be...

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
 
R

Roy Smith

Flightless Bird
Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:34:40 -0700, Frank wrote:
>
>> On 8/28/2010 7:58 AM, Yousuf Khan wrote:
>>> On 8/25/2010 6:01 PM, Buffalo wrote:
>>>> This is my friends new laptop and it contains Windows 7 Home
>>>> Premium.(Purchased at Office Depot with Win7 on it)
>>>> Do you have to register it with MS?
>>>> What happens if you don't?
>>>> How much time do you have after you first use it before you HAVE to
>>>> register
>>>> it?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Buffalo
>>> You have nothing to do, everything is already taken care of since you
>>> got this Windows with the laptop. You don't need to register it or
>>> activate it, both are already done for you.
>>>
>>> Activation is only for those copies of Windows which you buy from a
>>> store separately from the computer and install afterwards.
>>>
>>> Yousuf Khan
>> It may be activated but I seriously doubt it will be registered, as that
>> is up to the actual users to do, if they so desire.
>
> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
> idea who the user will be...

They do if it's a custom built PC...


--

Roy Smith
Windows 7 Professional
Postbox 2.0.0b2
Saturday, August 28, 2010 5:20:02 PM
 
Y

Yousuf Khan

Flightless Bird
On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
> idea who the user will be...
>

Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
then change later on.

Yousuf Khan
 
D

Doum

Flightless Bird
Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> écrivait news:4c79b916$1@news.bnb-
lp.com:

> On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
>> idea who the user will be...
>>
>
> Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
> then change later on.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Maybe but they don't register it with M$.
 
G

Gene E. Bloch

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:34:10 -0400, Yousuf Khan wrote:

> On 28/08/2010 6:12 PM, Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> Not to mention that at the time of manufacture, the manufacturer has no
>> idea who the user will be...
>>
>
> Usually, most OEMs put a default user id of "owner" in, which you can
> then change later on.
>
> Yousuf Khan

Or maybe "Microsoft".

I have seen (and had to fix) that.

It still asked me to register, IIRC, which corroborates what Doum said.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)
 
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