Windows 7 Best place to buy Win7?

[Anon_F]

Not bought an operating system online for 10 years so why is the best place to buy from?
Have looked at Novatech & Amazon, but any others to look at?
Looking to buy Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit to upgrade my laptop running XP.

 

[V_R]

Wherever its cheapest?

Does it really matter, its the same thing.

 

[TriplexDread]

I bought mine from a guy on Ebay, yeah I was sceptical as well however it was brand new and sealed. I even called MS to confirmed Key, they said all was fine.

INfact as I think on and ponder it wasn't from Ebay it was Play.com

Case had both 32 and 64 bit W7 Pro inside all for the bargain price at the time of £116

Its a little cheaper now I think

 

[EvanDavis]

e-buyer, OCUK who ever is the cheapest.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Just check all computer suppliers for an OEM version and buy from whoever's cheapest.

OCUK
E-Buyer
DABS
Aria
CCL
Scan
Kustom PC's

To name a few.

 

[grols]

buy computers directly from the operating system

 

[floppybootstomp]

buy computers directly from the operating system

Not quite with you on that one old son Care to elucidate?

 

[V_R]

buy computers directly from the operating system

lolwut?

 

[Anon_F]

Ended up going to Amazon.
Laptop now installed with Win7 Home Premium.
Just got 154 updates to do now!!

 

[floppybootstomp]

Probably too late now but if you ever use MS's Explorer as a browser then consider staying with Version 8 as versions 9 & 10, imo, suck. Very non-intuitive, imo.

And let us know what you think of the change and how it runs on a (probably) ageing laptop.

 

[Anon_F]

And let us know what you think of the change and how it runs on a (probably) ageing laptop.

Running ok on a 1.6GHz cpu with 4GB ram, but i do have 1 problem?
When i turn on the laptop it goes in to windows boot manager and offers me windows 7.
This is the only o/s on the laptop as when i installed it, it was a clean install?

Apart from that everything will be kept on usb flash drivers or external hdd.
Hard drive only 60GB

 

[EvanDavis]

?
When i turn on the laptop it goes in to windows boot manager and offers me windows 7.
This is the only o/s on the laptop as when i installed it, it was a clean install?

When you find a solution let me know. My desktop and laptop do the same.

 

[floppybootstomp]

Running ok on a 1.6GHz cpu with 4GB ram, but i do have 1 problem?
When i turn on the laptop it goes in to windows boot manager and offers me windows 7.
This is the only o/s on the laptop as when i installed it, it was a clean install?

Apart from that everything will be kept on usb flash drivers or external hdd.
Hard drive only 60GB

It sounds as if Windows preserved the old XP boot manager despite you choosing a clean install.

Only way round that is to format the hard disk then install Win 7 again (AFAIK).

Hardly worth the bother, tis a minor inconvenience to choose Win 7 on boot imo

Unless, of course, it's really irritating you, in which case, wipe the disk and start all over again.

Good to see Win 7 running nicely on a relatively modest system.

 

[EvanDavis]

It sounds as if Windows preserved the old XP boot manager despite you choosing a clean install.

Only way round that is to format the hard disk then install Win 7 again (AFAIK).

That said, both my desktop and laptop had new drives in with no prior installs

 

[floppybootstomp]

That said, both my desktop and laptop had new drives in with no prior installs

I'm not sure what's going on here then, I've done numerous Win 7 installs, mostly on desktops but also a few laptops and I've never encountered this phenomenon.

Colour me clueless then

 

[Anon_F]

To be honest it does not bother me & it's been a cheaper upgrade than buying a new laptop.
Just got to install Office 2010 Pro and all is completed, probably by next weekend.
But with only a 60GB hard drive all other programs as stated before will be stored externally.

And the biggest surprise was that an 8 yr old laptop could run Win7 all OK.
The strange thing is since upgrading the wireless signal strength has got stronger??

 

[V_R]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2282-default-operating-system-change-default-boot-os.html

?

 

[Anon_F]

Cheers V_R will have a look when on leave next week at got more time.

 

[cuba]

I bought Windows 7 Ultimate at eBay and i'm satisfied.