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How to find my product key

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Hello all,

Recently I just purchased this Samsung series 3 laptop and i'm overall satisfied with the performance it gives. The only thing I hate about it is it carries Windows 8 even though the laptop itself is a non touch screen model. I find windows 8 to be frustrating because lots of software I have on my desktop doesn't work due to it being windows 8 and I have even ran it in compatibility mode for windows 7.

I have a key for windows 7 home and I wanna install it on my laptop.

However, I don't want the activation key for windows 8 to go to waste though. Is there anyway to extract the key with a program of some kind?

If I were to call Samsung would they give me the serial key for the OS as I do have the receipt in hand from BestBuy?

Thanks

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daswilhelm said:
that activation key that came with your laptop, is bound to it, so theres no way to transfer it to another machine.

Really? That sucks... :( 

I really feel that its a waste if I do a windows 7 install and lose the windows 8 key. Is there anything I can do by calling Microsoft or Windows?
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Window that comes with the laptops are OEM version and as far as i know, they are non transferable.

One most important thing is to check whether there are window 7 driver for ur laptop model coz if samsung don't have them, there is no point changing ur OS.

Make sure to burn factory restore disk before u do anything else.

ttcboy said:
Window that comes with the laptops are OEM version and as far as i know, they are non transferable.

One most important thing is to check whether there are window 7 driver for ur laptop model coz if samsung don't have them, there is no point changing ur OS.

Make sure to burn factory restore disk before u do anything else.

Yeah I hope they have drivers for the laptop lol.

Ill make a restore disk tonight

Thanks!
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