OK ill start off on saying hi and im new here. Sorry for being a nube. LOL My sony lap top has viruses. I would like to get a free copy of windows 7 premium with activation key. Can someone please help me find this. I want to wipe out my whole system and start new. If someone has the time to tell me step by step how to do this. That would be great. Please help
Thank you for your time
You won't get a free copy of Windows. However, you can Clean Reinstall a Factory OEM Windows using the product key that came with your laptop. That's if you don't want to work through cleaning your machine.
How do I do that
It was a use laptop from a friend
A copy of Windows 7 is free but the legal COA activation key are not free.
What Micorsoft COA sticker do you have on your laptop?
On that sticker will be which Windows 7 came with the laptop and give you the activation COA that you have already paid for when you bought the laptop. You can use that to clean install that Windows 7 again on that laptop.
This sticker might be on the bottom of the laptop or inside the battery compartment.
it came with windows vista. my budy put windows 7 premium on it before he gave it to me. If that helps
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That's the problem I don't have a product key
If your friend does not have a key for it, and does not have the windows 7 key sticker on it, Then its a illegal copy. You will need to buy one.
Newegg and amazon are good places to start.
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