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(Unverified)Jul 12th 2009 7:33AM

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This is really news? Just like with Vista, the installer for Win7 is not that picky.

If you want to save money, you can just buy the upgrade version and do a fresh install with it. All that you have to do is go through the install routine a first time, but keep it in trial mode by not entering a key. Then you perform an upgrade install on that trial version. This time you enter the key since it is an upgrade. Sure it's a bit tedious sitting through the process twice, but it works.

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AdiliyoJul 12th 2009 3:23PM

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no, it's not the same as vista. The difference b/t the win7 upgrade and the vista upgrade is that apparently they changed it so that the copy of windows you're upgrading from has to be activated where it didn't have to be before. so the double install doesn't seem like it'll work anymore

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