Wanting to Make sure this is Retail Win7

Hey I was wanting to take the lenovo crap off my Y-470

I thought I`d use retail. I have a 64x Dell Windows 7 Disk But it puts a DELL logo under the System prob stuff


Is this retail as if i were to have bought it?
Download Retail Windows 7 ISO from Official Website | Windows7hacker

Im not lookign to be illegal im just wanting to use my COA on my comp. I would be using the Windows 7 Pro SP1 one.

So is this retail?

 

Windows 7 with SP1: http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...-digitalriver-windows-7-sp1-13-languages.html. This iso is official and you can use your COA. I'd use ABR Beta to backup the activation though.

You can get ABR Beta from here: http://www.mediafire.com/?b3iy4lzncm8v2nc, put it on a flash drive, run it to backup your activation, reinstall windows and run it again to restore the activation. This is a means to backup the activation of windows that was made using the COA and thus is perfectly legal as long as you reinstall on the same computer.

 

Okay thanks so much! I just wanted to make sure. Great easy program too !.

So Will there be an performance increase from using retail?

 

Not at all, there is no performance difference between retail and OEM, the only difference is that the retail key isn't tied to a particular computer so you can remove it from an old computer and install it on a new one. The OEM key is tied to the computer where it was first installed and you cannot use that key on a different computer. Also, i'm guessing you have win7 pro on the lenovo, because if you have home premium and try to activate pro with your key, it will of course not work.

 

Yes I have Pro on it.

Well what I ment about Retail vs OEM is that Since ive had it ive had to restore it a few times. After awhile it gets pretty slow. and its a i7. Its not any software thats doing it, it just randomly slows down even my Graphics Gets choppy on World of warcraft. Having problems doing LOADS of tabs on Chrome and such like that. So I thought I`d try retail. '

And about the COA thing. Ive parted computers and kept the COA for XP and other Windows computers even windows 7. The keys usually work most of the time as long as its not active on another machine.

 

What tijo meant was that there is no technological difference between retail and OEM Windows 7. The difference is in the legalese, or to put it simply, whether or not Microsoft can sue your pants off if you do certain things.

If you have slowdown problems with OEM, you'll have the exact same slowdown problems with retail, because they're not coming directly from Windows.

 

Wrong. (insert quiz show sound here)

ABR works only on preinstalled factory OEM installations, if computer was wiped and COA key used there is no data for ABR to save.

And that's also actual software piracy

 

Hmm, didn't know that, thanks for the heads up. I remembered doing a clean install on my G73 then using ABR for a second on, but i did a factory restore in between now that i think of it so i guess that's why it worked.

 

Not if its my own and not being used on another computer besides the one im using it on

 

OEM license is not transferrable. Only Retail can be transferred to a new computer.

 

Well I cant afford to purchase about 20 retail XP`s then lol

Most are Dell`s though with use of DELL oem disk so most of them I dont worry about the COA