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Clean Windows 7 install.

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  • 21-02-2012 3:34pm
    #1
    Bloodwing
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭


    I'm not sure if this is the best place to post but I've been given some great advice in the past from people in here so I'll give it a try.

    I've had a Compaq Presario CQ61 laptop for a couple of years now and it's gone very slow over the last 6 months. I'm hoping to do a clean install of Windows 7 (I'm currently running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit) but the sticker containing the product key has almost entirely worn away.

    I no longer have any CDs or manuals that may have come with the laptop, I'm not even sure that i did get a restore CD.

    I tried using some software called Magic Jelly Bean Finder and this did return a Product ID and a CD Key but neither of these match what little of the sticker I can still see. Is there anyway i can retrieve the required Key?

    I have an OEM version of Windows 7 Home Premium that i installed on my PC when i built it. Would I be able to use this if i could locate the original product key for the laptop?

    Thanks.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    If you right-click on my computer, your product key is given down the bottom, and you can download a legitimate ISO that you can then burn of Windows 7 online if you don't have the DVD here.


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    Bloodwing
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    The product ID I'm getting by doing that is completely different to that which is on the sticker (at least the bits I can still see!!) do I not need whatever Key was on the sticker?


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    Woooops, my bad. Don't know what I was thinking there. I'm not sure then, sorry about that.


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    Bloodwing
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    Thanks anyway,

    I might just have to try ringing Microsoft. It seems a bit of a stupid idea to put the sticker on the bottom of the laptop. Pity i didn't write it down somewhere when i bought it.


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    deconduo
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,281 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    Try this maybe:
    http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

    Speccy should also work:
    http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard


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    Bloodwing
    Registered Users Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    deconduo wrote: »
    Try this maybe:
    http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

    Speccy should also work:
    http://www.piriform.com/speccy/download/standard

    Both of these are giving me the same product key as Serephucus suggestion. Its possible that this might be the key i need but when its different to the sticker I'd rather not risk it. A slow computer is better than one that won't run!!

    Thanks anyway.


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    Serephucus
    Registered Users Posts: 7,180 ✭✭✭Serephucus


    I'd be able to check for you, but I don't have my Windows DVD handy, so I've no way to confirm.


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    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Use a key-finder to get your key, then install with any Windows 7 disk. They're all the same until you enter the key.


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