Speed up laptop

Rev

NiftyDigits wrote: »

You don't need to do it anyway. Windows 10 will activate without it.

Did you run as Admin?

Otherwise it looks as if you are running a 64 bit application on a 32 bat OS.

Did you install 32 bit or 64 bit?

I've just checked. The version of windows 10 is 32 but and I've selected the 64bit boot media.


I've no idea why because the original version of Windows 7 was definitely 64bit

Will give it a go tomorrow.

Rev

Decided to give it a go now and the first thing it did was ask for a product key!

NiftyDigits

Rev wrote: »

Decided to give it a go now and the first thing it did was ask for a product key!

Did you skip past that? Installed from boot?

Rev

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Did you skip past that? Installed from boot?

I skipped passed it but I didn't want to install incase I do so and it then asks me for the activation key after install.

J_B

Have you used 'magic jelly bean' to get the key, just in case?

https://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/

NiftyDigits

Rev wrote: »

I skipped passed it but I didn't want to install incase I do so and it then asks me for the activation key after install.

Why? Worse case scenario you could simply reinstall Windows 7 64 bit.

Rev

NiftyDigits wrote: »

Why? Worse case scenario you could simply reinstall Windows 7 64 bit.

I don't have the recovery media. I had made a USB drive with the recovery media on but have managed to misplace it so I can't reinstall the original Windows 7 until I find that.

NiftyDigits

Rev wrote: »

I don't have the recovery media. I had made a USB drive with the recovery media on but have managed to misplace it so I can't reinstall the original Windows 7 until I find that.

It's in your Inbox

Rev

Thanks. Managed to get it to download eventually.

Windows 10 wouldn't install. For some reason it just kept going through the install process. Getting to the first reboot then starting again.


So I reinstalled Windows 7 with the aim of creating the USB media again and trying again to clean install Windows 10.


I can't do that as for some reason Windows 7 won't see the laptops wifi device so I can't connect to the Internet which means the media creation tool won't work.


Off to try and find a cat cable to connect it to the modem and download the Wifi drivers.

Rev

Hahaha that hasn't worked either because the Ethernet controller also isn't installed.