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AuthorTopicAmy Babinchak
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Geo
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AskWoody PlusThanks Amy! I used your service for my wife’s business T430s W7 Pro for one year. It worked well and gave us breathing space. I was tempted to sign up for a 2nd year, but I upgraded the T430s (512 GB HDD and 16 GB Mem) to W10 Pro 20H2 instead. So far okay and no regrets. The laptop feels more agile (and lost 10GB on the boot drive).
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Amy Babinchak
ManagerI’m glad to hear it. Windows 10 is a much more security product and the modern feature set is pretty much a requirement if you’re a user of cloud applications and services.
Can I get you to try Edge now? The new Chromium based Edge is truly a great browser. Microsoft finally got a browser right.
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Kirsty
ManagerTo prepare for your license purchase you will need:
Amy, we are getting requests from people who (perhaps) didn’t use the year 1 licence.
It would be helpful to add details for how people can now get on board now, and the details of the year 1 and year 2 purchase needed 🙂1 user thanked author for this post.
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Amy Babinchak
ManagerThanks for the that suggestion. In the form, we ask that anyone needing the year 1 license email Ted direct and his information there for doing so.
Basically the story is that you must have a year 1 licensed installed before you can use your year 2 license. We’ve had a few people contact us about year 1 but not many
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Nibbled To Death By Ducks
AskWoody PlusThanks, Susan and Amy, really nice of you to do this for “Woody” people!
This year, I think I’m going to have to go with 0Patch, as $140-odd bucks vs. $28-30 US via PayPal is looking more attractive, since
- I really have very little MSFT on this machine; Use LibreOffice, GIMP, Thunderbird, other open-source stuff on this box. MSE and the Pro OS, that’s it.
- Senior budget! 🙂
You DO get some offshore telephone support with an ESU, but…hey, maybe I’ll change my mind before Feb. I understand the last patch for the first year will be the one that comes down on the second Tuesday.
Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330, Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Greenhorn
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Nibbled To Death By Ducks
AskWoody PlusThose that follow Susan’s Patch List recommendations.
Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330, Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Greenhorn
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"...all the people, all the time..."Peter Ustinov ad-lib in "Logan's Run"
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anonymous
GuestDo they take cash? I am old person and do not have credit card. Plus I turn off Windows 7 updates around 2015 when Windows 10 was being forced on people. I have not install any updates after that. Would I have to pay for those as well?
I use my Windows 7 computer every other day or so online. I have not had any problems. I do not use for any banking or money stuff since I do not have that. I just use for news and email.
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anonymous
GuestThanks but looks like there is only one way – email. I tried to log into my email account and not working since gmail does not recognize my device that I always use. It seems I will just have to forget about this and keep using my Windows 7 without any updates. It sill works well with only the 2015 updates installed.
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Paul T
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ManagerNo cash sorry. PayPal, Credit card or bank transfer are the options.
Just a thought, since you’re down to very little computer use, perhaps try a consumption device like an iPad? I bought last years model for $90 new recently. There are even less expensive models and any of them put you in a more secure place than the unpatched windows 7 computer.
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gkarasik
AskWoody PlusNibbled To Death By Ducks
AskWoody PlusOK, for info straight from the horse’s mouth (0Patch) for all those interested, or confused, or both:
See post #2326320Win7 Pro SP1 64-bit, Dell Latitude E6330, Intel CORE i5 "Ivy Bridge", 12GB RAM, Group "0Patch", Multiple Air-Gapped backup drives in different locations. Linux Mint Greenhorn
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"...all the people, all the time..."Peter Ustinov ad-lib in "Logan's Run"redknight
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AskWoody PlusI meant the installation instructions. Susan’s instructions from last year:
- Open an elevated command window (enter cmd into the Windows search box and select the “Run as administrator” option).
- At the prompt, type in slmgr /ipk [full key]” and click Enter. (Replace [full key] with the complete ESU key number.)
Be patient: eventually a screen will pop up indicating that the key was properly entered
- Back at the prompt, enter slmgr /dlv and click Enter; this will go out and acquire the given activation key.
Again, be patient: each step takes some time. After a pause, a screen will pop up indicating that the key is ready for activation.
- In that same screen, look for the Activation ID. It should be 77db037b-95c3-48d7-a3ab-a9c6d41093e0. (For the first year, all ESU setups will have that same number.)
- Final step: Back in the command window, enter slmgr /ato 77db037b-95c3-48d7-a3ab-a9c6d41093e0 — another window should pop up, stating an activation was successful.
This year the activation id will be different?
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