Win7 Retail full install CD?

Yes, that is OEM. I don't think you can actually find a full retail box now. Newegg doesn't have them anymore.
 
John is right, it's hard to find retail copies now. There's one on Amazon for nearly $500 which is a daylight robbery.

But as I said, if you only need to install it on one computer then the OEM version will be fine.
 
Actually I'm wondering if microsoft has lightened up on their licensing issues. Windows 8 only has OEM licenses now so I would assume they are trying do away with retail licenses. Maybe they don't care that you can reactivate an OEM on another motherboard now???
 
johnb35 said:
Maybe they don't care that you can reactivate an OEM on another motherboard now???
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Probably not. Truth be told, it can be done with Windows 7 (and earlier) licenses too...

Off topic (slightly), but what I don't get is why they've dropped 'boxed' (retail) copies of 8.1, yet you can still buy 'boxed' copies of Office 2013 which don't have any install discs. All it is is a small box with a little product key inside it and a piece of paper telling you where to download Office from. Seems bizarre. And a waste of packaging!

Edit: A couple of weeks ago we had 18 copies of Office Home & Business 2013 sent to house to install on 18 HP desktop machines for clients. We got a whole stack of boxes (see here: http://i1160.photobucket.com/albums/q487/vistakid10/Image-1_zpscd5ccddc.jpg), none of them with installation media for Office, of course. Just seemed like such a waste when we could have been emailed 18 Office product keys, but there you go... :rolleyes:
 
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Thanks guys for your unput ,i guess that bestbuy win7 will be ok, i had to buy a new Hard Drive cause the orinal broke,it had win vista,i don't think it will handle win 8.1 very well.
 
ivtec said:
Thanks guys for your unput ,i guess that bestbuy win7 will be ok, i had to buy a new Hard Drive cause the orinal broke,it had win vista,i don't think it will handle win 8.1 very well.
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If it can run Vista or 7, then it can run 8.1. 8.1 uses less resources than 7 and Vista, so it will run better than both (theoretically).
 
Hi, I don’t mean to butt in, but I’m also looking to upgrade my Vista to Win7. I noticed that the OEM was only for a clean install and not an upgrade. Is that a problem?
From what I’ve seen, I don’t want anything that even resembles 8 and if MS forces it on me, I’m going to MAC
 
Yeah just buy the OEM disc and then do a clean install of 7. Back up all your data first though because obviously the clean install means formatting your HDD.
 
spirit said:
Yeah just buy the OEM disc and then do a clean install of 7. Back up all your data first though because obviously the clean install means formatting your HDD.
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Thanks, I just wasn't sure how the licensing worked. I can't remember what product it was now, but years ago I was trying install something and it shutdown with a notice that it wasn't an upgrade version. I don't remember what I did to solve it, but I may have reformatted the drive or something.

Its really a pain to reformat the drive with so many programs with licensing on it. First is that I have to find all the keys and then some of my programs only allow one computer and when it tries to update I'm met with so much opposition that I don't want to continue.

Pinnacle Studio was one of those programs. I had to replace the drive after an ugly virus devastated my computer and it took a couple of months
to get a new key from them and I think I had to pay them. The second time it happened i decided that I would never ever use Pinnacle again.

Anyway I may just buy a new drive and take my time moving things over.:)
 
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