Is this allowed?

Pobby

My desk top was running on win 7 , I upgraded to win 10. A friend gave me an old but quality laptop running on xp. It is VERY slow and I think a reinstall would help. It is on xp. I have a disk but goodness knows where it is. I still have my shop bought win 7 disk. Is it legal to place the win 7 os onto the laptop?

HappyMJ

Pobby wrote: »

My desk top was running on win 7 , I upgraded to win 10. A friend gave me an old but quality laptop running on xp. It is VERY slow and I think a reinstall would help. It is on xp. I have a disk but goodness knows where it is. I still have my shop bought win 7 disk. Is it legal to place the win 7 os onto the laptop?

Legal in what way?

You're not committing a criminal offence if that's what you mean.

I_have_spoken

Windows 7 won't activate, and it's breaking the terms of the license.

Anyhow, the best way to speed up laptops is to install an SSD drive. But on a machine of XP era, who knows what devices were used. Chances are Windows 7/10 won't have drivers for the video etc.

pappa_golf

when you upgraded to win 10 , you used your win 7 serial number to "pay" for it


if you use the same install disk and serial number to install it on another machine Mr Gates will be annoyed that you ae cheating him


yes it will install , no it will not register , and you will get funny messages after a few weeks

paddyrg

An XP vintage machine could be upto 15 yrs old, and probably better suited to one of the compact Linux builds (I doubt it can handle Mint, for instance). I suspect it'll still be depressingly slow to use, though, so maybe don't trouble it too much with anything demanding!