Having jumped in on the $29 Student Windows 7 deal back in November, I'm a fairly happy/proud (and legal) owner of Windows 7 pro 64bit.
Activated once after install, and all has been 'peachy' except for a single driver issue.
Recently, I've had to flip/flop my firewire driver from the TI driver to the 'Legacy' a couple times (for troubleshooting a audio issue) and Windows 7 prompted me to activate again.
Normally, I wouldn't have a problem... but when I typed in my key (saved in a read only notepad file), and clicked next... the activation screen just disappeared, but did not activate windows. rebooted, and same issue.
Finally gave up and activated via the automated phone system... but what a PITA.
I can deal with re-activating via internet, but having to call and read AND type in a 40+ character key is annoying.
blah. /rant.
Activated once after install, and all has been 'peachy' except for a single driver issue.
Recently, I've had to flip/flop my firewire driver from the TI driver to the 'Legacy' a couple times (for troubleshooting a audio issue) and Windows 7 prompted me to activate again.
Normally, I wouldn't have a problem... but when I typed in my key (saved in a read only notepad file), and clicked next... the activation screen just disappeared, but did not activate windows. rebooted, and same issue.
Finally gave up and activated via the automated phone system... but what a PITA.
I can deal with re-activating via internet, but having to call and read AND type in a 40+ character key is annoying.
blah. /rant.