My assistant has been doing most of our Win 7 installs in the office. So far we have only tried one upgrade and it went fine, however he did tell me that booting from the Win 7 DVD one of the options is to upgrade straight from the DVD, so that might be an option to just drop in the DVD and start the Upgrade.
________________________________ From: Adrian Montagnani [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: upgrading an expired Vista eval you could try to "rearm windows" If you install Windows 7 and don't enter an installation key, the 30-day activation clock starts. To see how many days you have left, click Start, right-click Computer, and choose Properties. At the bottom of the dialog under Windows Activation, you'll see the number of days left in your trial period. When that number gets perilously close to zero, you can extend the free period another 30 days via the following steps: * Step 1: Click Start, All Programs, Accessories. Right-click Command Prompt and choose Run As Administrator. Enter your administrator password. * Step 2: Type the following command and press Enter: slmgr -rearm Note the space after slmgr and the hyphen in front of rearm. * Step 3: Restart Windows 7. Once the OS restarts, the Properties dialog described above will indicate that Windows 7's activation grace period has been reset to a full 30 days. You can run the -rearm trick a total of three times. If you perform a -rearm at the end of each 30-day period, you end up with 120 days of full, unfettered Windows 7 use without having to supply an activation key in the interim. Regards, Adrian 2009/9/16 Eldridge, Dave <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Someone called me with this question and I don’t have the answer. He installed an eval of vista and it has expired. He has the rtm of win 7 with a key and was hoping to do an in place upgrade. Is this possible? This e-mail contains the thoughts and opinions of the sender and does not represent official Parkview Medical Center policy. This communication is intended only for the recipient(s) named above, may be confidential and/or legally privileged: and, must be treated as such in accordance with state and federal laws. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use of this communication, or any of its contents, is prohibited. If you have received this {communication} in error, please return to sender and delete the message from your computer system. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
