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clean install of windows 7
I have a 5 year old dell inspiron running windows home premium 7 32 bit. It's been running very slowly recently, so thought I would try to load a system image that I had created previosly , but was told that there were corrupt files so had to abandon this.
I have my windows license key and I was led to believe that if went onto the microsoft web site I could download what i needed to re - install windows, however part way through the process a message appeared saying that my copy of windows was an OEM version and that I would need to conatct Dell to resolve the probelm.
On going to the DELL web site and registering my details , I found that all conatct methods for technical support were unavailable , I suppose because my laptop is years out of warranty.
Any idea what my options are?