seanincali
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hey everyone.
i have a dell inspiron laptop that i bought in 2009 that came with windows vista home premium 64 bit.
when vista support went away, i upgraded to windows 7 home premium 64 bit and it went pretty smooth.
then i had a virus that put a period at the end of the registry for the "explorer.exe." which caused the windows to load a blank black screen on start up. so I thought my laptop was a toast and bought a new hp laptop.
then that had to get service about a month ago, so i started to looking into fixing my old windows 7 machine. i was able to find a post about the corrupted registry entry and was able to resurrect my windows 7 by deleting the spurious period at the end.
and now that the support for the 7 is going away, i would like to look into the option of upgrading this windows 7 laptop that was upgraded from vista to windows 8.1
is that advisable?
last time i was able to find a downloadable image of windows 7 from microsoft website, and then buy an activation key on ebay for cheap. but i'm not having the same luck at the moment.
any suggestions would be welcome.
i have a dell inspiron laptop that i bought in 2009 that came with windows vista home premium 64 bit.
when vista support went away, i upgraded to windows 7 home premium 64 bit and it went pretty smooth.
then i had a virus that put a period at the end of the registry for the "explorer.exe." which caused the windows to load a blank black screen on start up. so I thought my laptop was a toast and bought a new hp laptop.
then that had to get service about a month ago, so i started to looking into fixing my old windows 7 machine. i was able to find a post about the corrupted registry entry and was able to resurrect my windows 7 by deleting the spurious period at the end.
and now that the support for the 7 is going away, i would like to look into the option of upgrading this windows 7 laptop that was upgraded from vista to windows 8.1
is that advisable?
last time i was able to find a downloadable image of windows 7 from microsoft website, and then buy an activation key on ebay for cheap. but i'm not having the same luck at the moment.
any suggestions would be welcome.