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Upgrading from Vista
Hi, I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 that came with Vista. I bought an upgrade to Windows 7 pro, installed it and it worked - mostly. There are a few things that seem to behave differently from my desktop machine that was purchased with Win 7 pro. As time went on, things just got worse - IE 8 barely works at all, Itunes and WMP don't always work smoothly, even connecting to my wireless network can be a chore at times. I've compared settings and both look to be set the same. I finally got tired of fighting the 'bad' laptop installation, and I started to re-install windows 7 from the upgrade dvd. Now at the end of the process, it's asking me for the product key. I tried the Vista key and that didn't work. The COA from the Win7 disc does not have a product key. (It looks legit as compared to the images and descriptions on the MSFT site). Does anyone have any ideas? (I'd rather not do a complete wipe and reinstall if I can avoid it).
Thanks.