Recent content by Nalydyenlo

OK. I have a question. I'm upgrading from my old 32-bit machine to a new 64-bit machine with a completely different motherboard, processor etc. What I want to know is: If I download a 64-bit ISO and go about installing it on my new PC, will I be able to simply transfer the activation over from...

Yeah, I guess it's gonna come automatically then (for those with auto-updates fully turned on). I read somewhere that it's a ~300MB package that will possibly take up to 45 minutes to install in the background. I also read that the changes it makes aren't that profound - boot straight to desktop...

Damn, I was hoping 'twas going to be an optional update like win 7 service pack 1. I don't like the thought of my mom going to work on her newly re-vamped pc only to have it paralyzed for an hour or more while the update installs automatically. If you're right, I'd want to call over in the mean...

Thanks for the quick reply, Brink. That's good to know. The 8 to 8.1 update was like a whole re-install whereas this one I guess will be more like a service pack that we can install at our leisure, am I right? It's just that when I saw posts about leaked ISOs etc., I thought it was going to be a...

I just successfully upgraded my mom's XP machine to Win 8.1 cause of Microsoft's end-of-support for the old OS. It took the best part of a day backing up her files, installing and activating and then setting up new software on the new OS. It's not something I'd want to do again in a hurry and...

I'll still have the Vista Home Premium that the PC shipped with from the factory. I'm using it now and I kinda like it. Thread solved!:party:

Nah, seems a bit extreme. After all, when I think about it, I did quite well. I got two OS's for the price of one - a fully legit OEM Windows Vista and as some would argue, a not so legit Windows 8 (even though it's permanently activated and seems genuine!) Plus ,the PC's specs themselves are...

Yeah, I've heard it's pretty sluggish. Wouldn't do any harm to put it on a second partition and have a dual boot setup though. Microsoft doesn't have any option to upgrade from Vista for free do they? Now that'd be sweet. EDIT: ...sweet, but totally unnecessary as I already have 8.1!:sarc:

I'm not going to return it now. I've had it for months and I'm quite happy with it. I'm just a bit miffed that I won't be able to activate a clean install of 8.1 if ever I have to. It's not a huge big deal really - I've just discovered it has a hidden vista recovery partition and that a factory...

Are you kidding, it's got awesome specs!;)

I'm not trying to cheat the system. I have a valid activated copy of win 8.1 which I purchased at a shop with a PC. I remember the guy at the shop showing me that the activation was valid and permanent. I then upgraded for free from 8. I only found out a few weeks after that the key installed on...

Which, as I admitted in my last post, I don't have!

I wanna come clean. I don't have a Microsoft account and there was never any e-mail with a product key. Technically, I didn't buy Windows at all - my PC is second hand and I got it with Windows 8 + wmc activated (at the local pawn shop). The sticker on the case says that Vista was the original...

OK, thanks all. I guess that's as definitive an answer as I'm going to get. Shame! I downloaded that retail ISO for nothing. Was hoping there'd be some kind of a workaround. I can always back up my activated copy of win 8.1 anyway using disk imaging software, but it's not an ideal solution. To...

Is this possible? I think I already asked a question like this in another thread but I couldn't get a straight answer. I know you can activate a clean install of win 8.1 with a win 8 product key but you see, I don't have one - I only have the WMC upgrade key that got installed over it when the...