beta serials

[garbanzo]

according to Paul Thurrott's site, the official beta being released friday is in fact the 7000 build. this means that any of us who are running it unactivated should be able to just grab a beta serial, right? or will we actually have to download the ISO in order to get a serial? if it's only going to be made available to the first 2.5 million people, it will go pretty quick. i don't know what time it will be released, but i'm in europe so there's a big time difference. my connection isn't great so it would take me a while to get the 2+ GB ISO...

 

[tdk08]

according to Paul Thurrott's site, the official beta being released friday is in fact the 7000 build. this means that any of us who are running it unactivated should be able to just grab a beta serial, right? or will we actually have to download the ISO in order to get a serial? if it's only going to be made available to the first 2.5 million people, it will go pretty quick. i don't know what time it will be released, but i'm in europe so there's a big time difference. my connection isn't great so it would take me a while to get the 2+ GB ISO...

good to know that the beta released will be 7000 so i wont have to worry about updating but i thought you could only get serials/iso's if you were an msdn subscriber (unless you are but im not)

 

[garbanzo]

no i'm not. but i imagine they have to provide some kind of activation for people who grab the public beta. otherwise no updates. and the 7000 build runs out too quick, there must be a way to extend it to august...

 

[z3r010]

There will be keys provided to the public on Friday with the download

 

[tdk08]

There will be keys provided to the public on Friday with the download

wow good thing you told me that cause i dont want to miss out!

 

[garbanzo]

There will be keys provided to the public on Friday with the download

i understand that. but what i'm curious to know is whether a key can be obtained without a download? can i visit the site on friday and just get a key since i already have an ISO of the 7000 build?

 

[tdk08]

Yeah good point I'm interested to know that now too

 

[smarteyeball]

Lets hope so, otherwise I've just wasted 3.15GB

 

[z3r010]

i understand that. but what i'm curious to know is whether a key can be obtained without a download? can i visit the site on friday and just get a key since i already have an ISO of the 7000 build?

If it works the way that Vista did then they will email you a key when you register for the download.

 

[darkassain]

yeah i agree with z3...

most likely if not you will have to sign on and then they will email you the link to the ISO and in that said email the key...

 

[garbanzo]

ok cool, thanks for the info.

hey, is there a way to change your key in 7? or should i just format/reinstall when i get an official one?

 

[darkassain]

since there should be no difference in the version numbers (or OS's)

you are just fine changing your key....

(activating using the key MS provides you....)

 

[garbanzo]

but at the moment i'm activated using a key microsoft didn't give me

can i change the key to an official one without reinstalling?

 

[darkassain]

before you do that do a sfc /scannow...

(it should put the original pkeyconfig.xrm-ms and tokens.dat)

you have to redo the watermark remover if you have it enabled though...

then activate using that key (the email one)...

 

[garbanzo]

ok thanks for the information.