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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on April 04, 2010, 08:56:30 PM

Title: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 04, 2010, 08:56:30 PM

Apparently the Win7 on my laptop is not legitimate, and that stupid update caught it.

If I used my old student email to buy this

http://www.microsoft.com/student/discounts/theultimatesteal-us/default.aspx

Would I be able to convert my netbook to a legitimate version with ease?

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: Diunx on April 04, 2010, 10:48:07 PM

What does the update do? is it the one that change your background and put a watermark in front of everything?

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 04, 2010, 10:53:25 PM

Yea, and naggy pop ups. I think as time goes on it will start disabling widgets and shit too.

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: Vizzys on April 04, 2010, 10:55:57 PM

you shouldnt let windows download updates for you

or at least read what they actually do before you install them

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: demi on April 04, 2010, 11:04:46 PM

My guess: No

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: Diunx on April 04, 2010, 11:07:43 PM

I got rid of that thing on XP, you should do a google search and get that shit out of your system.

Title: Re: Can you downgrade Windows 7 from Ultimate to Pro without doing a clean install?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 04, 2010, 11:17:20 PM

Quote from: Viz on April 04, 2010, 10:55:57 PM

you shouldnt let windows download updates for you

or at least read what they actually do before you install them

I went ahead and unchecked the box for the update weeks ago, or else this would have happened when they rolled it out back in Feb. Somehow it got turned back on and downloaded itself yesterday.