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Any Decent free operating systems?

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  • OwtForNowt
    OwtForNowt Posts: 1,685 Forumite
    edited 1 March 2010 at 5:46PM
    This sounds good. :D

    However when I click on 'Run as administrator' it just opens up my homepage. :o anyone any ideas why?

    Thanks.

    Ignore that, i just did it.

    It says;

    Windows Activation- 30days to activate.

    So im guessing it worked.

    Thanks a million. :D
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  • OwtForNowt
    OwtForNowt Posts: 1,685 Forumite
    Grrrrrr, atleast I thought it had worked. Just got a pop up to say the windows 7 pre-release will expire in 6 hours. :( Im confused. lol
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  • -TangleFoot-
    -TangleFoot- Posts: 4,673 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    edited 1 March 2010 at 7:20PM
    The Release Candidate would have been activated shortly after you installed it; the advice given above only applies if you install the operating system without entering a valid activation key. Your copy will still be forced to shut down regularly for the next few months, at which point it will expire proper irregardless of its WAT status.
  • OwtForNowt
    OwtForNowt Posts: 1,685 Forumite
    The Release Candidate would have been activated shortly after you installed it; the advice given above only applies if you install the operating system without entering a valid activation key. Your copy will still be forced to shut down regularly for the next few months, at which point it will expire proper irregardless of its WAT status.

    Ah right, thanks.

    I guess I'll be useing one of them other operating systems tomorow when windows 7 runs out.

    Thanks.
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