Activate Windows 7?

[Raxbar]

At the moment I'm living outside of the United States. However, I ordered a copy of windows 7 for my new build from the US. The packaging says something about geographical restrictions, and I need to figure out if ill be able to activate from where i live.

 

[pjmelect]

You may not be able to activate from outside the united states. I live in England and I have had similar problems. You could activate it by going through a USA proxy. Even then when you do the updates WGA will flag the operating system as illegal, so do the updates through a proxy.

Once it is activated and you have done the first lot of updates you should have no further problems.

 

[Raxbar]

Which proxy would you recommend? Also, I read about being able to activate through calling a Microsoft activation center (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950929) do you know if this would work?

 

[Proximon]

I'm sure MS support will be happy to help you with this. They aren't just sitting around plotting ways to make your life miserable, you know The activation people have a good bit of discretion for this reason.

 

[Proximon]

This topic has been moved from the section Systems to section Windows 7 by Proximon

 

[Raxbar]

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