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01-21-2017 04:39 AM
I have purchased my hp lap since 4 years , it was installed on it Original widows 7 so it worked good even after some time i could recover the original drivers and the original windows 7. last year , accepting an windows 10 upgrading but it did not work good and at last i decided to comeback to my windows 7 but this option is not available again , so i contacted Microsoft help and they told me to reinstall fresh windows7 and it will be automatically activated but it did not happened. help me to re activate my windows 7
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01-21-2017 11:31 AM
01-21-2017 04:49 AM - edited 01-21-2017 04:49 AM
Windows 7 needs a Key Code to activate. You might have a sticker on the bottom ot the laptop or inside the battery bay with your original Key Code, and that can still be used, depending on the version of Windows 7 that you installed. Where did you get the Windows 7 that you have just installed?