Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 15:08:05 -0400 Tim Crone via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: On Jul 29, 2015 2:26 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Now I just need to how to activate my installation of Win7. Windows will try to activate over the internet with the key you gave for install, if it wasn't installed on that machine before. I knew our laptop would be booted on Windows only little, so I told it during installation that I would do it manually later. You should not have to enable any special services. Good. If you open properties on my computer it will say whether the system is activated. I don't think there's a persistent affirmative message. I did open the properties of computer and found a message that it wasn't activated, but there was also a link to activate it. I clicked on the link and it asked if I wanted to activate it on-line now or later, I clicked now and it started the process. About 15 seconds later, it said the system was activated and was genuine Windows. Thanks for the help! Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
On Jul 29, 2015 2:26 PM, Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Now I just need to how to activate my installation of Win7. Windows will try to activate over the internet with the key you gave for install, if it wasn't installed on that machine before. If the activation fails, you'll get a message in the system tray, but only after you have connected to the internet at least once (i.e. your NIC works). I'm not sure what happens after the activation timer expires (30 days or whatever it is now). You should not have to enable any special services. If you open properties on my computer it will say whether the system is activated. I don't think there's a persistent affirmative message. You might be able to force activation by running Windows Update and installing the Malware Detection application. I usually just wait it out. If you are only offline, I think you will eventually get the same icon in the system tray, and it will present a dialog box with information on how you can call in to get an activation key. Best, Tim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:27:09 -0600 Craig via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: From my experience, Win7 is ornery about booting so I'm reluctant to advise Just try it. But the root command looks correct for legacy GRUB. Well, I did, Just try it, and it worked. I performed the following steps: 1. Boot SystemRescue CD. 2. Execute startx 3. At a terminal prompt, type, grub enter. 4. Type, root (hd0,2). 5. Type, setup (hd0). 6. Type, quit. 7. Reboot. Kinda redundant to startx from a terminal just to open an xterm, isn't it? *smiles* Well, if one wants to run Gparted to make sure things are OK, it's quite necessary ... Now I just need to how to activate my installation of Win7. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
I have just installed Windows 7 Home Premium on our Dell Inspiron 600m (old, outdated, underpowered, etc.) dual-boot with Linux laptop. I have some questions: 1. How do I run Windows Update? 2. How do I manually run Windows authorization/activation (which must be done in the first 30 days)? There is a Window feature in the Control Panel called Windows Process Activation Service with the sub-entries of: - .NET Environment - Configuration APIs - Process Model Are these things I should turn on? 3. What are XPS documents? I want to be able to print to postscript so I can transfer the postscript (with all the fonts) to my Linux system to make new PDFs to replace ones which were made on a Windows system without all fonts embedded (which are hard to read on Linux). Is that at all related? 4. Installing Windows 7, of course, over-wrote my GRUB boot sector information. I have a procedure to fix the boot system of our main computer, which is single-boot and has /boot as /dev/sda1: 1. Boot SystemRescue CD. 2. Execute startx 3. At a terminal prompt, type, grub enter. 4. Type, root (hd0,0). 5. Type, setup (hd0). 6. Type, quit. 7. Reboot. Since the laptop has First partition - Windows 7 Second partition - another NTFS partition Third partition - /boot, should I change line 4 above to: Type, root (hd0,2) ? 5. Can I go ahead and install Dell's XP drivers and have things work properly? The network is now working properly, so I figure I should not install that driver, but the audio is not working. 6. Anything else I should know? Thanks, Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
Craig wrote: I have just installed Windows 7 Home Premium I know very little 'bout Win7 3. What are XPS documents? I want to be able to print to postscript so I can transfer the postscript (with all the fonts) to my Linux system to make new PDFs to replace ones which were made on a Windows system without all fonts embedded (which are hard to read on Linux). Is that at all related? When I must use MSWin, I use PDFCreator to print PDF files. I believe it is based on Ghostscript - and although I haven't tested it extensively, it seems to embed the fonts. GPL licensed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ 4. Installing Windows 7, of course, over-wrote my GRUB boot sector information. GRUB or GRUB2? They are quite different. I have a procedure to fix the boot system of our main computer, which is single-boot and has /boot as /dev/sda1: 1. Boot SystemRescue CD. 2. Execute startx 3. At a terminal prompt, type, grub enter. Kinda redundant to startx from a terminal just to open an xterm, isn't it? *smiles* 4. Type, root (hd0,0). 5. Type, setup (hd0). 6. Type, quit. 7. Reboot. That looks like GRUB legacy. Since the laptop has First partition - Windows 7 Second partition - another NTFS partition Third partition - /boot, should I change line 4 above to: Type, root (hd0,2) ? Maybe. I tried to migrate a physical Win7 to a virtual machine and this dual partition thwarted me and I failed. On mine, the first partition was very small and was the Win7 boot. The second partition was the real Win location. From my experience, Win7 is ornery about booting so I'm reluctant to advise Just try it. But the root command looks correct for legacy GRUB. However, I gave up on dual boot a long time ago. MS Win is now always in a virtual machine (VirtualBox most recently). So long as there is enough RAM, it works just fine 6. Anything else I should know? I sure like having my MSWin as a guest OS. It means I don't have to have as much software installed in MSWin because both the guest and the host are running. And I set up the networking so the guest can't reach the internet. And it's easy to make a backup of the guest - or migrate to another host. Oh, and I can copy/paste between the guest and the host. The only disadvantage I've found is the need for RAM. I have an laptop that shipped with WinXP, that I put the maximum of 1G RAM and it was quite usable running a OpenBox on the host and WinXP on the guest. Not peppy, but usable. -- Philip ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
Craig, 1. Windows Update: Short: type windows update in the dialogue box that opens just above the start button, after you click the start button. Long: you should have a Control Panel option on the menu when you click on the Start button (which is the Windows symbol, round and in bottom left corner). Select the Control Panel, look for a choice that includes Windows Update. 5. In my research I read on the internet, if the Win7 install does not have a driver that works, you should be able to install the driver from the OE CD and it probably will work and won't break anything. Try it now while breaking it and reloading Win7 is still relatively painless. - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 15:06:01 -0400 Meade Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Craig, 1. Windows Update: Short: type windows update in the dialogue box that opens just above the start button, after you click the start button. Long: you should have a Control Panel option on the menu when you click on the Start button (which is the Windows symbol, round and in bottom left corner). Select the Control Panel, look for a choice that includes Windows Update. Yes, you are right, it is on the Control Panel, and easily visible if one has it display all entries instead of categories. In XP, it was at the top of the start menu and readily visible. 5. In my research I read on the internet, if the Win7 install does not have a driver that works, you should be able to install the driver from the OE CD and it probably will work and won't break anything. Try it now while breaking it and reloading Win7 is still relatively painless. Hmmm ... Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
Re: [MBZ] OT: Windows 7 Questions
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:08:39 -0500 fmiser via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: When I must use MSWin, I use PDFCreator to print PDF files. I believe it is based on Ghostscript - and although I haven't tested it extensively, it seems to embed the fonts. GPL licensed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ Thank you for the link, Fred, that sounds like what I need. From my experience, Win7 is ornery about booting so I'm reluctant to advise Just try it. But the root command looks correct for legacy GRUB. However, I gave up on dual boot a long time ago. MS Win is now always in a virtual machine (VirtualBox most recently). So long as there is enough RAM, it works just fine My Linux installation is complete and I use it as a backup location. I'd like to get access to it as easily as possible. I have an laptop that shipped with WinXP, that I put the maximum of 1G RAM and it was quite usable running a OpenBox on the host and WinXP on the guest. Not peppy, but usable. This laptop also shipped with XP and has 1G RAM. Win7 seems less peppy than XP, so I don't want to change from a dual boot. Craig ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
