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Updated 11-30-2011 at 07:18 AM by Mike

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Updated 02-11-2012 at 08:02 PM by Mike

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1. Click "Start" and type "Fix Net" and press enter to let windows try to diagnose and repair problems.
2. Verify network drivers are up to date for your adapter... (upgrading may
use old Vista drivers that are not compatible with 7) Click Start and type
"Device Manager" and look for any driver errors.. usually a yellow triangle.
3. Click Start and type and enter "ev" and it will run the Event Viewer. Look
under Custom at the ...

Mcrosoft selling crapware-free PCs in its stores


The computers at Microsoft Stores don't have the crapware that Windows PCs typically come with, but they still have an assortment of Microsoft and Adobe software. Most controversially, they include Windows Live Essentials and Microsoft Security Essentials.

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/new...its-stores.ars

The short of this post is that Windows 7 Enterprise updates by default expecting a KMS server. I don't have one. I had to go through Microsoft Tech Support to change the key from KMS to MAK and then I could activate my copy of Windows 7.

I am glad I didn't reinstall. My installation disk uses KMS by default and I would have had the same problem again. I enjoy Linux and miss the days of the DOS prompt so it was refreshing to use the command prompt to solve the problem. I've heard ...