Your pre-activated Win 7 installation disc is illegal for all the reasons have been mentioned above but. What would you suggest, without spending a fortune to purchase a key from microsoft ?.Hello Davy49

Can someone PLEASE suggest a easy way for me to get in the 'activated' category ? I'm trying to 'rack' my brain to figure out a way to get past this dilemma.I know there is a method to do so, but my brain hasn't told me how to do it yet. I think that's where my issue started.because now windows 10 pro 64- bit edition isn't activated.and of course I don't have a 'valid' 25 digit product key available to get it activated. So I installed the 64-bit windows 7 pro edition, yesterday when I installed windows 10 on her laptop I used a disc labeled ' windows 10 install media / 32-bit & 64-bit ).

I have a disc that has windows 7 all edition's on it ( pre-activated ). As I remember though.something happened and I remember asking her if she would like me to update her system from the home edition to the pro edition, she said sure. I think where I went wrong was previously her laptop came with windows 7 home premium oa edition installed on it, and as I'm quite a bit older now.my memory isn't what it used to be. As most everyone knows that some time the first of next year, microsoft is 'supposedly' going to stop giving security updates to the operating system. Well, I'll start off by saying I did something rather 'stupid'.yesterday I had the idea to upgrade my wifes older laptop ( Acer Aspire 5250-BZ873 ) to windows 10 from window 7.

Pre activated windows 7