Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 32bit (OEM) System Builder DVD 1 Pack [Old Packaging]

This disc will perform a clean install of Windows 7, which means you must backup all of your files in Windows XP before installing Windows 7, and you must also re-install all of your programs when the Windows 7 installation is complete. The only agreement I encountered with this system builder disc was the standard Windows license, which is the same one you would encounter if you were turning on a new computer for the first time. The installation itself is very straightforward. After you backup your files from Windows XP, and you have gathered all of the installation discs you need to re-install stuff (or are confident you can download everything you need to re-install), put the Windows 7 CD in and restart your computer. When it first boots up, there will be a message that flashes very briefly that says Press F(something) for boot options. Press that button quickly and select the CD/DVD drive to boot from the disc. When the installation starts simply follow the prompts. If you are doing a standard install, the prompts are self-explanatory. If you want to work with (delete, format, etc.) a partition, click the Custom option and when it shows the list of partitions, select the one you want to work with along with the appropriate choice. The installation takes about 30 minutes to complete. Once it's done, re-install all of your programs, put your files back and run Windows Update to get all of the security patches. Windows Update will take a bit of time and involve restarting multiple times. Windows Update can be found in the Control Panel (Start --> Control Panel --> System and Security --> Windows Update --> Check for updates). During the installation you will be prompted for the Product Key. This is the 25 character key that appears on the case in an extremely small font and in part on a blue background, which makes it very difficult to read. The simple solution is to take a picture of the code with your phone and zoom in on the picture. You can also use a magnifying glass, but the camera on your phone will likely be more accessible. The disc and code come in a sealed envelope to prevent tampering. Windows 7 will automatically attempt to activate after 3 days if you don't do anything. If you want to activate it prior to that, to ensure you entered the correct product key, do so via the Control Panel (Start --> Control Panel --> System and Security --> System --> scroll down to the bottom and select the option to activate windows). When it's activated, you will see the genuine Microsoft symbol to the right. Good luck

The only reason I use Microsoft windows is that the businesses I worked for require it. I had a Mac on my desk at work from 1986 until 1995; then our company started using Microsoft office products. That's when my dislike of Bill Gate began. I don't know the guy. The Mac never failed; it was turned off only when the power company lost the load. Windows crashed, and still crashes, frequently. A few weeks ago I suffered a system crash when using Win-XP. Because I need windows to run some special software that won't run in the Mac environment, I upgraded to Windows 7; it still sucks. I am seriously considering getting rid of all the PC garbage and gettin a Mac for email and personal accounting. The rest of the world can stay in the hell created by Microsoft.

The packaging for this disc is scary because it has a lot of warnings and stickers saying it is only for system builders and basically telling you not to open it unless you are a system builder. But I went ahead and opened it on the strength of the opinions of other Amazon reviewers, and it did the job of upgrading my old PC from XP to Windows 7 without too much trouble. I used Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor and Windows Easy Transfer from the Microsoft site before I tried upgrading and both of those things made it even easier. I didn't want to change my OS but I also didn't want to be so vulnerable to hackers, and I don't think Windows 7 is too difficult to understand, and the "help" sections are in fact helpful. I did a custom installation and then searched for Easy Transfer and clicked on the icons to transfer everything back, and once I reloaded the programs, all my documents and files were right where I had left them earlier in the day. The big bonus for me was that I could use my Office 2003 disc, instead of having to buy a new Office disc, which is expensive. My only issue was that my computer was so old that it wasn't even wireless enabled, and my online access is through a wireless card. My PC had a wireless adapter on it that I didn't even know about, and that led to some frustration, holding and then talking to people from Verizon who wanted to tell me that my wireless card had magically stopped working right about the same time I loaded the new OS, but I finally got someone wonderful named Eric who explained to me how to download a new driver for the adapter to a flash drive and install it on the new OS, and presto I was online and could download Microsoft Security Essentials. But most people probably won't be working with an antiquated machine like me (or they'll know what's making it work, unlike me) and won't have this issue! Overall this is a good product and the peace of mind is really worth the price I paid for it.

I have installed the s/w on an older IBM T43 laptop running XP. It originally had 1GB of RAM, but I replaced one 512Mb chip with 2GB, so it actually has 2.5 Gb now. And it flies!! I had 2 issues during installation: 1) Even though I selected "New installation" (vs. "Upgrade"), and fully expected my 50Gb h/d to be wiped clean during the install, I ended up with old Windows (dir name=Windows.old) on my h/d after everything was installed and working. I damn near ran out of disk space (only 1.4Gb of space ws left after the install). On the plus side: all my files survived, I did not have to restore my pictures, movies and docs. I thought Win 7 wiped out the old XP? 2) When Win 7 came up, it had no idea of wireless. None. Could not find it, could not configure it, nor add it. I ended up connecting it to internet via network cable, then downloaded the drivers (from Intel site, of all places - do a Google search for "Win 7 no wireless after install", there are number of links to sites with drivers. For example, "http://www.fixya.com/support/t1161190-ibm_thinkpad_t43_wireless_lan_problem"). This happened, apparently, because Win 7 came way after IBM stopped making T43's, so no drivers exist. Whatever. I used generic driver for my hardware (Intel LAN 2200BG card). Otherwise, the install process is pretty easy, and takes 15-20 mins.

Simply put, the best Windows ever. Make sure you do a clean install of Windows 7, if your previous version had any errors, or viruses on it. If so you will not be able to do Windows 7 backups because the task manager in Windows 7 will be corrupted with errors. However a clean install is not a easy task. I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 32-bit with 3GB of ram running on an old Intel Celeron. I backed up my Windows files using Dell Datasafe Online Backup, which stores my music, photos, videos, office files, favorites, ect. It's basically a cloud backup for files only which is good for any install. If you had any programs in your computer such as Microsoft Office, or a printer hooked up to your computer you will need the installation CD. Dell data safe dose not backup programs. Programs such as Roxio Creator, and Power DVD you can download from the Dell website using your service tag number. Make a backup copy of these files from Dell because you only get 3 tries to download these programs. I got most of my drivers from Driver Update, and the rest of the drivers I got from Dell drivers using my service tag. Make sure you have a backup external hard drive just in case something goes wrong such as a bad driver from the Dell website. You can easily restore your system using Windows restore if this happens. My Windows runs perfect on this old labtop machine with a 1TB drive, and USB 3.0 express card. I previously had Windows 7, installed over Windows Vista, but I did a clean install the second time because the first installation came with malware and errors. As a result, I could not do a any kind of backup of my system, and files on my external hard drive in Windows 7 backup and restore, but with a clean install now my computer runs perfect; error free. This version of windows blows Vista away, so I would definitely recommend the upgrade. Just make sure you review the seller, and the product they are selling on Amazon.com, or on any website. There are many people selling Windows Operation Systems without a valid Product Key, or a Genuine Microsoft Label. Windows 7 comes with either a Certificate of Authenticity, or a Genuine Microsoft Label, so investigate the seller before you buy it. My Windows is activated, and Genuine.

When I first ordered it, I wasn't clear on what the term "system builder" meant--and when i got the product open, I discovered a little more information was required than "First, just hit the "Run" button..."--things that kept coming up required, like: you have to guarantee that you're a company who performs the tech support for the whole world of users--who, with all their potential lawsuits leveraged against us--force us into having to rely on greedy Geek Squad tech support that wants to fee us to death with $100/hr install help--constitutes enough legal deterrence to skip installation of this universally used Windows 7 program for ourselves--skip installing this particular copy, self-identical with any Windows 7 program you use? What? Because the average person doesn't want to provide his own home telephone number as a step in the start up sequence...for the world's computer uses to call his home with their tech support needs!!!...do this absurd, ridiculous first step before you go on to the next step...in the install procedure of this Windows 7 program-->on your computer-->for yourself--This is what makes this particular Windows 7 program a definite: "Don't buy if you are not a professional installer"--whatever "professional installer" means! I installed a Windows 7 without being a professional installer, or having to install a professional installer's telephone number--millions of programs are operating out there without lawsuit-lightning-rod tech support telephone numbers on them: What? Just to install this overqualified, over-glorified term: "system builder" on the box?!--to allow them to create another version for profit that is no-more Windows 7 than the non-"system builder," standard version is--When these "professional" installer/"system builders" are not even capable of building a Windows 7 system themselves....The few trivial technicalities they insist on this version of the Windows 7 program form an insurmountable stone-wall barrier between the rest of us and these product-insiders that want to restrict us from using advances in the program, supposing that this "version" has the substance of a useful feature or two more than the regular version--asks us: "Why we, the general public, aren't allowed to install"system builder class" onto our computers ourselves? Why, I was just invited by Microsoft to install Windows 8 on my computer: a World Class, total system upgrade!--being built by Microsoft's elite "professional installers"/system builders that don's seem to care about who downloads this free program onto their own computer, which can be sold to the world, and cause potential lawsuits by not functioning, right? An entire operating system which has lots of technical "system builder" differences in it from Windows 7--What does Windows 7 "system builder" mean...When Jolicloud--a totally superior system of plastic up-gradability--even to that of Windows 8--is just one of many downloadable systems superior to Windows 7 out there--freely available to download onto your computer to recycle it (what I was trying to do with this Windows 7 beast...)...Go ahead, "system builder," Make My Day...

I installed this quite easily as a virtual machine that is meant to run in the Virtual Box product, and on a mid-2010 MacBook Pro with 4 Gb of memory. I have a specific purpose for running Windows 7 as a virtual machine. I do not have a "pro" knowledge of or experience with Virtual Box. I did read bits and pieces of the Virtual Box documentation. With that said, installation was surprisingly simple to do, and powering on the virtual machine is just a click. I installed Virtual Box Guest Additions in my Windows 7 instance and I guess I am ready to learn how to make things work as a virtual machine user. Everything is fine, so far. While running Windows 7 I updated it to all the current "Important Updates" and installed Microsoft Security Essentials, Adobe Reader and Adobe Flash Player. I also installed Firefox, Google Chrome, Java 7 JRE, and LibreOffice 4.x. I also created a standard user account to do all my serious work within. The account with administrative privileges is only used for software installs and updates. I log in, do my updates or installs, and restart or log out of the administrative account immediately. Then I log in to the standard user account. All true work is done in a standard user account. This secret prevents a lot of malware from installing silently with an administrator's privileges. Because Windows 7 is very easily infected with malware, and because the Microsoft way of distributing code is not open sourced, I rated it a '3' only. I later bought two additional units of this product so I could have two additional product keys for creating two additional virtual machines -- all of them VirtualBox virtual machines. They run beautifully. I picked this version of Windows 7 because I believe it is sufficient for the purpose I have in mind. One question is whether I can go to Control Panel --> Back Up Your Computer and back up to a device that is on the network. Based on the Microsoft documentation, this might not be possible. At a later date I will set up a FreeNAS share and test network backups to that share. However this is not really a problem for the purpose I have in mind. The actual virtual machines can be backed up to network storage quite easily.

Amazon seems to rotate vendors for this product. Mine came from Majestic Quality. I got a single bootable DVD with 32 bit Windows 7 Home Premium (bloat free), a Microsoft sticker on the envelope with my unique 25 digit Windows activation key, and a little card inside saying "phone activation is recommended". Specifics: I am 99% sure that the OS on the DVD can be downloaded FREE from Microsoft (google HeiDoc.net and Digital River) in the form of an .iso file that you burn to a DVD yourself. What you are really buying here is the OEM product key. Windows product keys are not 'bit' specific, so if you download the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium this key should activate it, and that is how I intend to use it on a future machine. I bought this as insurance so I can continue to run Windows 7 if my existing computer dies. The Microsoft COA sticker says: "For use on a refurbished PC, No Commercial Value, for Authenication Only". 'No commercial value', really, then how come this thing sells for close to a hundred bucks? If you can make sense of this Microsoft gibberish, your a better man than me. The DVD describes the location of the product key as on the "installation disk holder", well that's one way to refer to the flimsy piece of cellophane (over cardboard) where I find my product key attached. The card saying phone authentication is 'recommended' can probably be translated to mean that this key will fail online authenication. I have not authenicated yet so I have no personal experience here, but I read Microsoft has three levels of authenication: online, robot telephone, and live person (probably some dude in India). Why two different automated systems? Why is a phone call necessary? Only Microsoft knows the answer to that one, and they are not talking. Three stars because it is overpriced. (update 1) Took off a star, because when I later tried the DVD, I found it could only be read by one of two computers on which I tried it. On my modern desktop the install repeatedly exits after a few seconds with the message: "unexpected error" (I guess this is to differentiate it from an 'expected error'.) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (update 2) --- Auto Activation Trap or Fraud? I was distressed to find that on a test install from the DVD Computer properties showed it was set to 'auto activate' in 3 days. If it 'auto activated' on my test machine, it would essentially destroy the value of my purchase, because I bought this OEM Windows key to use on a FUTURE machine. But doing some thinking about this and running some tests on my install, I now suspect strongly that 3 days to 'auto activation' is a fraud, a scare tactic of Microsoft. The only way it could 'auto activate' is if the unique 25 digit product code on the packaging is also on the DVD, but that would make every DVD different! How likely is that? Very unlikely. My tests show the product code build into the DVD is the default Home Premium key which probably exists on millions of machines, and it is well known it cannot be used to activate Windows 7. By adjusting the clock I simulated going over the 3 day 'auto activation' boundary and as I suspected nothing happened. The desktop did not turn black nor did 'not genuine' text appear on the screen. In fact a recheck of Computer properties showed 27 days to activation. 3 days to 'auto activation' is a Microsoft lie.

Package arrived on time. Installation was easier than expected. Only issue is the CD Key- I could not get it to work when first installing the program, so I choose to validate my copy later via the Internet. When I got around to validating via the Internet, the code worked the first time. :s Would buy again. :)

Habe diese OEM Version vor einiger Zeit zur Eerrweiterung meiner Starter Version gekauft und habe keine Sekunde und keinen Cent bereut. Windows 7 ist Das Bisher Angenehmste Betriebssystem das Microsoft entwickelt hat. Mit wenigen Handgriffen sind Systemeinstellungen vorgenommen und auch die Oberfläche lässt sich ohne großen Aufwand anpassen. Ich werde so lange dabei bleiben, bis auch dieses System nicht merh mit Upates versorgt wird. Die Aktivierung lief per Telefon problemlos und gewohnt zuverlässig. (Hatte schon eine 64-bit Version als OEM und wussete daher, was auf mich zu kam ) Sehr zu Empfehlen

This is as far as I can tell a genuine Microsoft DVD, and is supplied with a licence key on a sticker so that you can stick it on to your PC after installation. It's not hard to install, but it comes with no instructions, so the assumption is that you know what you're doing and you know how to install any drivers that might be necessary. I used this after refurbishing my daughter's laptop, and I needed to find and install a driver for the internet connection, which of course I needed to download on another PC and then install on the laptop via USB memory stick. In my case everything else worked fine using the standard windows drivers, so it's all good.

The need was to upgrade from Vista Home Premium. Firstly you can be confident that the item you receive is genuine. It is not presented in the usual MS boxed retail pakaging,but in a substantial sealed two card packet that is clearly a Microsoft item. "The Software is intended for preinstallation" dont be put off. Product key accepted first time by MS on line and the installation was very straightforward albeit tiresome. There is a compatabilty table on the MS website that will confirm suitabilty to upgrade from your current OS I recommend that you check this before purchasing. I did make a phone call to another vendor on the Amazon site who is selling a download version of the software...... I was not impressed at all,they took a while to answer and when they did there was an amazing lack of knowledge. They wanted my card details and then they would send me on line download instructions via e mail.......... In my opinion you should steer well clear of vendors using this approach pay the extra and save on the Anadin.

cercato e comprato per upgrade di un laptop un po' vecchiotto (windows vista) , e provare a fare poi l'upgrade a windows 10 il prodotto , a differenza di altri simili , contiene sia il codice di licenza sia il dvd di installazione. anche se si possono attivare altre lingue , di fatto l'installazione e' in inglese. qualche problema di installazione dovuto alla scelta di aggiornare il prodotto prima di installare , una successiva installazione senza aggiornamenti e' filata liscia e durata poco piu' di un'ora (ma gli aggiornamenti successivi parecchie ore e parecchi riavvii ) qualche problema con l'autorun , superato lanciando direttamente l'appicazione