PC ,win 7 pro ,activated with just offline Display

Hi, First day on Win Forum ,To be honest, I am a telecom guy / Electrician not a coder or developer , just a hardware modification type .I got an HP Omni 110 AiO for a couple of bucks and figured I would invest about ) and get this albatross running as a back up .Well I always figured I needed to break the passwords and reinstall 7 upgrade to 10 ,bang done . Well after some brick walls later I find no hard drive and little memory. i got SSD 256 gig and 8 gig of DDR 3mem .used a Sys recovery Boot disk. Well at that i used the attached product Key and after fighting M/S got it activated .Well after some work got Wi/feFi working but no display except for the off line stuff internet/ particularly "Internet Explorer" keeps a banner saying "Cannot Display internet Display" ! After running system trouble shooter , with no result, I have settled to wait for a 2 week wait for a reinstall fresh disk that hopefully has a Autorun. Dll file is not corrupted or whatever M/S calls their f ups . Any insight to this would be so helpful .Thankx Marky007

thanks it came back with "media disconnected" I havent used any dos comm. in 15 years LOL, and i have no idea how to connect media ,will a fresh Win 7 reinstall remedy. ihate to ask but thanks for your help MM007

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I cant load any thing or any browsers yet so firefox is DOA for now ,i like your patriot tag i am member A.L. post 903 MT. Washington PA. thanks

Hi MM07,
Have you tried just typing in 'google chrome' and ignoring the banners - Internet explorer has given me some wierd and wonderful errors for some time now, so I don't think you will improve it even with a fresh install. But I have used it to get new installs going and have always managed to get chrome installed - I am using version 109.0.5414.120 (Official Build) (64-bit) but you do need to stop the automatic updates. Also there is a version of MS Edge for Win7 which I also have installed, but my default is Chrome. Once you have a decent browser you are away and can forget Internet Explorer - in fact I stop (or uninstall) the Explorer 10 and 11 updates as I have found various conflicts if they are installed. If that fails, Firefox should again get you internet access and you could put Firefox Installer on a USB.
Reading your post again, not sure if you want to run Win7 long term, or just to get upgrade to 10.

Pete

Thanks i am going to do the USB fire fox ! I am going to update of course ! I am so used to 10. I have read a lot of gurus love 7 so I know I used it a lot I just cant picture ,it seems so old school now LOL thanks again MM007

Hi,
If have any trouble, and you are just after Win 10, it might be easier for you to just install it straight from Win10 ISO File. Just use the Microsoft Media Creation tool to create a bootable USB and use it to install Win 10,. Then Activate it once it is installed. It should activate with a digital license if you have already got an activated Win7 OS on that machine. Pete

Microsoft started blocking all free upgrades from Windows 7 to 10 in September 2023. If your computer is running Windows 7 and you want to upgrade to Windows 10 you will have to buy a new Windows 10 product key. They are available from many online sellers for about US $20.