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.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- windows 7 upgraded from windows vista
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- dell
- CPU
- core2duo 2ghz
- Memory
- 4 gig