Undeadish welcome to SevenForums hope that you enjoy your Windows 7 install. We have lots of tutorials here.Tutorials - Windows 7 Forums
My fav dealing with the context menu is Context Menu - Add Copy To Folder and Move To Folder
Hope you have a good stay here on SF
The problem with enterprise versions of Microsoft Software is they are normally designed to operate in conjunction with a licensing server which is located at the enterprise - It may be this check that is failing in your case _ check with your IT manager at work as you may have to attach your system to the company network before the system will allow you to proceed
Thanks for the info liquid,
Should he be cautious of changing hardware or doing clean installs? Since he's using this at home, I'm not sure that he'll be able to renew the license if he ever ran out of activations.
You're welcome :)
If he has used a MAK key there will be a certain amount of activations allowed for the key (say 5000), but the admin will know how many. Every time you re-install windows, even on the same machine with the same hardware, and use the same MAK it will register as another key used. So if there are just a few activations on your MAK you need to watch out.
The MAK and the KMS keys are not included with the Windows 7 ISO you download from your Volume License area. There are different ISO downloads of Enterprise depending on whether you will use it with a KMS key or a MAK key. You have to go to your admin to get the correct key and activate Windows in the normal way described in this thread.
For future reference, the comments about discussing illegal activites came from your mentions of finding a registry tweak. There's no logical reason to be mucking around in the registry if you are trying to activate a legit copy...and that's what led people to think this. As you found out, activating was a very simple process, found right in the properties of the Computer icon on your desktop....same place it was with Vista.
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