Everytime I switch it on!

Works fine for me on all my machines, definitely slight improvement in performance too, though day to day, most people wouldn't notice it. If you want a terrible attempt at windows you need to go back to Windows ME.

mike

Or you can just pirate windows 7 then upgrade to 10 for a legit copy free.

Rather do this then waste £10 on either carded keys or MSDN or something else thats in violation of MS terms that gets the key blocked after a few months anyways. You can see the other deal from this company, only reason it's allowed is because HUKD are getting £££ from it.

The company hasn't even been trading for over a year and was dormant previously with £4 in it.

For anyone interested just noticed that Opium Pulses have 1100+ Windows 7 licenses back in stock - bit more expensive though, currently $15.71 which equates to £12.45 (though part of this will be due to the fall in the pound)

I bought a couple last time round for laptops I was refurbishing (worked fine inc upgrade to W10 though i had to activate them by the phone method)

hi is there a more straightforward way to download this what do i do?
thanks seems very complicated with all this torrent stuff

I was an technical preview tester months before the Windows Insider release. It went through many builds with options being added, removed, and changed. Microsoft actively got feedback from testers and adapted it during development. Personally I am quite happy with the final product that has emerged, it is quicker, slicker, more user friendly and makes my job a hell of a lot easier.

Most of my supported SME's have either totally migrated or have a cross section of Windows 7/8.1 and 10. More often than not the feedback I receive is very positive and users would not move back once they are trained correctly about the features it offers to increase their productivity. One thing I can tell you without a doubt is that your average business user doesn't give too hoots to what OS the computer runs, so long as it lets them do their job without hassle.

The people who pick fault with the Windows app store on the desktop version of Windows... well, anyone can work out the issue there. Desktop Windows has more apps than you can shake a stick at, maybe try the alternative app store that you used on Windows 7, you know the one, is called Google, where you can search for even more new programs that edit your dog pictures to make it look like their smiling at you. Oh and that still works fine on Windows 10. :wink:

So I guess its apples and pears, like anything in life, choice is key, use what you want. But I remember the same discussions happened when Windows 98 and Windows 7 came out, people were naysayers and evangelised that Windows 95 or XP was better. Some people hate change, human nature.

But anyways, back to this deal... dubious at very best. But with Opium Pulses not being an authorised Microsoft OEM seller, more likely than not breach of copyright, will it work? Yes. If a business used one would it stand up in a court of law in a copyright infringment case? I doubt it.

Just chill and take it easy, use a flavor of Linux if you dare! :smile:

Regards
Flea

nothing wrong with windows 10 - its a great OS - i would like to see a list of specific faults from the whingers (no doubt i'll get one)
the shambles (on some genuine W7 installs) is the upgrade procedure from 7 to 10 - its a total joke - hanging on 99% download / hanging on "checking for updates" etc

thanks for that not your fault but not straight forward and i have never heard of all theses things if I follow the sequence I should be alright then cheers

and how would you do that? (key wise) if I upgraded my Win 7 to Win 10 via free upgrade then wanted clean windows 10

What about your hardware, its might be outdated what could lead to lot of isues once you upgraded to windows10, also I would suggest clean install of win10 once you have updateded your machine from older version of windows, to make it more stable and reduce the numbers of problems caused by upgrading process

Nothing but problems since I upgraded to 10, 7 is the best one they ever did.

Should it be Y/Remind me every ten seconds until I choose Y?

That is just it as far as I am concerned....Windows 10 they just cannot give it away! I have prevented (up/DOWN)grade on my Win 7.

Yes, that's the point, if your Windows 7/8 actually says it's not genuine before you upgrade, upgrading will simply mean it's still not genuine when you get to Windows 10.

If Windows thinks it's fully activated and legit beforehand using a loader or whatever, it will upgrade to a fully licensed Windows 10.

This free for pirates thing came about in March last year when a Microsoft bigwig was talking about Windows piracy in China and loads of news outlets got the wrong end of the stick and made out it would be free for pirates as well, MS quickly clarified the next day that it won't be free for pirates.

So, they don't intend for it to be free for pirates, but it still is if the right methods are used.

Appears to be out of stock on everything!

Install Torrent client (Tixati is a good one)

Download Torrent, preferably Generation2 or murphy78 releases as they aren't pirated.

Then download and install Rufus and use it to 'burn' the ISO to DVD or USB.

It was possible well in to this year (2016) anyway this is a moot point as I have no interest in informing anyone on the current status of pirating Windows 10. If you obtain a licence this way and Microsoft rescind it, then that's your problem.

Seems to be out of stock now.

Is it actually possible for a non genuine copy of windows 7 to become legit by manually installing windows 10 via Microsoft's free update offer as some claim?

hi can anyone tell me how to put it on my pc downloaded a torrent file but it does not do anything anyone got a step by step guide including suitable torrent file whatever that is cheers

It wont be leagal even using daz triple 2 loader MS will switch it later to non genius its all over reddit at pirated section, there is no way to pirated turn into legal copy not anymore, it was possible with test version with windows10 at early stage!

Right I got the key. How does one create a USB installation as my PC don't have a disc drive lol

Windows 8.1: Professional (OEM) $9.60

None in stock

http://www.askvg.com/faq-upgrading-to-windows-10-from-non-genuine-windows/

Think this link above should help answer peoples questions about non-genuine windows, when you upgrade from a non-genuine key of win 7 or 8.1, when it goes to the paid version of windows 10 on 25th july then they will be given 30 days to upgrade before they cant use there operating system. (unless you use some more dodgy software to fix it or refresh the trail period lol)

I bought a 8.1 key from the site to give it ago and see if its genuine or not, the image file sent looks rather legit but wont find out till a few weeks in haha.

P.s. just editing it to say yes seems like my comment went through moderation before being posted never posted before so unsure if its normal or what haha i assume it is :smiley:

That story was rebuked by Microsoft themselves and they said that was NOT the case, so they are not giving pirates any sort of amnesty. What is happening is the upgrade cannot tell the difference between the working activation methods around (like Daz) and a real activation, those will get fully activated for nothing.

On a side note, is anyone else having all their comments moderated before being posted????

Microsoft announced that it would upgrade pirate copies of Win 7 to 10 free of charge for the first year.

All sold out it seems

That's the main problem with this "deal", it could activate and you will be OK, it could fail to activate on install or it could say the license key has been blacklisted days or weeks down the line. You're taking a risk when you buy this product.

The debate about whether this is in fact legal licenses or pirated license keys is another matter.

I clicked the get deal link on my phone ( galaxy s4 ) ( i am now posting on my pc ) and immediately a pop up screen said i had four viruses on my phone and would allow me to get rid of the pop up screen had to reset my phone which seems to have sorted it !!!!

If I'm building a PC within the coming days is this a legit way to get Windows or will it pop up that it's not the real thing?

The point is that the Windows Store is there, and it's an integral part of Microsoft's vision, as a desktop OS for this purpose Windows 10 in entirely a failure. I will use Windows 10 for DX12 gaming, I am hoping that the Vulkan API rapidly progresses and that will take over as the main gaming API, then there's absolutely no reliance on Microsoft's operating systems for gaming in the future.

This will only be the case if your current Windows has the not genuine watermark in the bottom right corner and probably has a black background and nags on boot. If your Windows has been activated with something like the Daz loader it sails through the activation and becomes a fully genuine Windows 10.

Hmm, I've reported this deal already, it's been up for 2 days, surely some mods must have spotted it? What next, advertising websites with stolen goods? I'm sure that would get hot too

well on pc you can still fully enjoy all the benefits of your windows10 without going into Microsoft store, its just another excuse to make it look bad, like the guy who made a video about the background coulor on windows10 when you log in, its so ugly that he cant use it and drive him nuts, dont matter that you only spend there few seconds...

I can't stand W10. Everything Windows with me is on 7. Depending on the legitimacy of these keys, I don't have to then upgrade to 10 right? I can buy the 7 OEM and stick on that yeah?

I installed on iMac El Cap with parallels 11 & activated then upgraded to W10, I thought this was okay, legit?

The problem for Microsoft is that no one wants to use their shoddy Windows Store and that's why they've failed with their Windows Phones and 8/10 in general.

Been looking for a Windows 7 OEM to install on my iMac to get Parallels working.

Presuming the price reflects the legality of the software? (i.e. highly dubious!)

I recall some of these Windows Licensing Key License threads via previous HUKD Postings on here too.

As the impending 'cut-off' day approaches, I reckon we're going to see a ferocious number of such threads popping up like mushrooms all over the ruddy place! (I'm guessing?).

Personally speaking, the more the merrier ..... :-)

Good Post OP.

Its mainly couse you can't teach an old dog new tricks, thats where the problem is!

If i have a non activated version of windows 10, will buy the Windows 10 version activate it?

your pirated copy still gona be pirated even after upgrade!

Just to point out that free upgrade to W10 ends 29th July: "end of July", yes, but no joy if 30th or 31st!

These are just MSDN keys which they can easy photoshop onto the .psd of the COA floating around the internet if they are to send you a "scanned license"

What.....the hell.........I find myself agreeing with you. Does not..compute.....

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

What I'd add to this is that almost no one uses the Windows 10 store apps. Windows 10 tablets don't sell and Microsoft is sacking off their Windows phone division. I sell computers where I work and the feedback from the customers is entirely negative regarding Windows 10. In fact some still ask can I downgrade, or if I've sold a Windows 7 machine and it upgrades they want to downgrade it again.

If I had Windows 7 I'd stick with it for now. I'm waiting to see if Windows build 1607 the next major update to Windows 10 on 16th July codenamed Redstone 1 will improve Windows 10. The current build 10586.420 can still have problems with the start menu not working. How they haven't solved that problem is incredible.

Windows 8 proved that you can't merge a tablet and desktop OS successfully and Windows 10 is a botched apology for that ethos. If you're a gamer you'll want Windows 10 at some point if you play upcoming games.

Anyway there's mileage to get out of even the PS4 yet. Uncharted 4 and God of War both look fantastic on PS4. Rambling now. Bye :smiley:

I'm afraid Classic Shell does absolutely zero to compensate for all the other shortcomings of Tablet 10. Didn't matter WHAT I did to Tablet 10, it is barely usable compared to Windows 7. Anything you want to do beyond opening a file and booking a holiday online it tries to hide from you. All the face lifts in the world can't help with that. Some of us just don't WANT a tablet experience on a proper PC. That's why we build PC's, not clip together a few parts behind a 7-10" slab. I'm not suggesting for a moment this is some kind of superiority, what I'm suggesting is that's the REASON you build a PC. Because you don't want to use a tablet.

I'm amazed it took so long for someone to suggest this.

Anyway, I've got an iMac now and...oh, never mind.

That 'tablet' is the new graphical user interface (or 'look & usability' to you).

You can get all the benefits of W10 but keep your W7 'feel' by downloading Classic Shell for free.

Would you elaborate more about this please ??
What About if I buy Windows 7 or 8 and use free upgrade to W10 will I encounter the same problem ??

Au contraire, it's easy - & legit, Microsoft have no problem if you change from 32 bit to 64 bit - just upgrade via installation media as opposed to other methods. Choose the 64 bit version of W10 & Bob's your uncle. I've done this on several machines.

LOL! :smile: Well it's pretty easy to see what happened. At some point in the last few years, someone at Microsoft looked around and noticed that lots of people use their smartphones ALL THE ****** TIME - including, I hasten to add, while crossing the road IN FRONT OF MOVING CARS. And IN THE CINEMA WHILE SOME PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO WATCH A FILM. But I digress.
So this Microsoft bobbin thought: "Oh I know, let me design an operating system that TURNS EVERY SINGLE OBJECT A HUMAN BEING OWNS INTO A PRETEND PSEUDO-TABLET SMARTPHONE THINGY." So they designed Windows phones, Windows 8 and Windows 10. Because, ya know, they're so advanced they jumped Windows 9 entirely and blasted into the modern age, kind of like that ship in Star Wars.
If Microsoft had their way, they would turn EVERYTHING into tablet smartphone thingys. Including Weetabix, bananas and apples. Go swipe that, Microsoft.

I spent at least 15 years teaching myself to build the ultimate gaming rig......I did this, of course, in the hope that one day, I would be able to use it like a liddle Android swipey touchy screen phone that's 4% of the user experience and play Candy Crush on it. Yup....
I have enough games that only need up to DX11 to last well into my retirement, and well into the afterlife as well. So I can just about squeeze by without DX12.

Agree a billion per cent! You forgot to add that they even ruined the calendar in Windows 10! I mean, how the **** can you mess up THE DATE??? :neutral_face:
I made the HUGE mistake of 'upgrading' to Windows 10 a few weeks back and was EXTREMELY relieved to find that I could revert to Windows 7 if I did so within a month. Of course I did so very much sooner! I still don't know why Microsoft seemed to think that my lovely desktop PC had suddenly turned into a ****** tablet!! :confused:
Going back to Windows 7 was brilliant, fantastic, wonderful... an utter joy... like going for a holiday in paradise again... :smiley:

It does...tested many times

They will work. Question is, for how long

Why do people still fall for these? All they do is sell the open market keys, you can get the keys they sell by literally googling 'windows 8 key' or 'windows 10 key' etc.

Ordered Windows 10 and Gigabyte Brix i3.

Time to move from Mac OS X.

What, you mean you've not bought a load of Linx tablets and stacked the Office 365 licenses, after upgrading to the home version for £10 ? :laughing:

mike

Compared to ME, Vista was a dream, I used it for around 3 months just because I didn't have time to downgrade, then out came Windows 7, but to be honest never had any problems it just worked for me, I suspect I was lucky though or maybe having tried RedHat Linux shortly before hand, I'd got used to things simply not working as you'd expect :laughing:

These days, going back to Windows 7, seems somewhat archaic, but I've never had problems with 8, 8.1 or 10, each OS worked fine, all I had to do was configure the system for my applications and I reckon, even if the OS wasn't faster (which it was for 8, 8.1 and 10) my working pattern was definitely faster.

mike

Hot for W7 and nothing else

They wouldn't offer it with support for both versions of Windows if they weren't fully supported. Don't forget we are referring to Business class PCs so the proper support is critical.

All these lovely deal's on the Operating System what about Microsoft Office.... ? I've not seen any deal on them

If I buy one, and install Windows 10 on my laptop, then decide to build a PC, can I then use the key on the PC but not on the laptop?

What do you mean by activation code?

Use the official Microsoft Windows 10 website:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10ISO

Anybody purchased Windows 10 from this company? Did it work?

Write down and keep that long series of numbers, you can use them again if you need to reinstall.

Will this work on a ZX80 ?

I love how they have a (C) at the bottom of their site. :laughing:

can anyone confirm where you download a genuine ISO from? and if this is legit deal?

​So there wouldn't be any potential issues with hardware conflicts?

I have xp will this work?

The Win 8.1 Pro version looks to be a particularly good deal, as the free upgrade to Win 10 is still operating (I think). I have used similar routes to Win 10 on most of our PCs and never had any problems. Win 10 is a pretty sorted out OS, the only way of doing things cheaper is to use a free LINUX program, which requires a little more knowledge.
Heat added, this is a good way of getting Win 10 very cheaply.

I think you are forgetting the horrible buggy mess that was Vista .........
I dont mind win 10 , its fine . Only real complaint after months of using is the lack of win media player that was quickly solved by downloading VLC

If you buy a Business class machine with Win10 Pro it may have downgrade rights to Win7. If not you will have to buy a Win7 license.

Atleast "N" is one of the options!

Silly question of the day, I'm likely to buy a new laptop soon with Windows 10 and I'd rather just stay on Windows 7. Is there any way I can do this?

Well at least you have a '64' bit operating system :laughing:

HUKD should be investigated by trading standards for aiding and abetting an illegal practice

I received an error message when I entered my Windows 10 Pro key :-(
But the nice woman at Microsoft generated another Key for me :-)

Be aware that many sellers especially on ebay are selling same key to different people. They will work for sometime, not sure after. If you call Microsoft once you got the key they will tell how many times is been activated. If none, always try after a couple of weeks and see if that is changed. Always pay with paypal, it will be much easier to get the money back. I been a victim my self and amazingly my key does still work despite the fact that Microsoft told me that it was already blocked sometime ago. I must say that the very first time I called Microsoft it appeared as a genuine key and non in use yet, few day later about 5 or 6 activations including mine and few weeks later it was blocked

Noooo don't do it,
stay on the more stable, secure and PRIVATE os already installed. :stuck_out_tongue:

Cannot understand HUKD condoning this company (OpiumPulses) by allowing product listings of theirs to be posted on here. They're MSDN licences failing that duplicates that are sold to many, many customers from what's been gathered. Avoid-Avoid-Avoid.
PS PayPal dispute for a failed install failed dismally. Should you want no hassle and ask yourself whether this is too good to be true I'd conclude that's exactly what this offering / con is (again IMHO).

Actually you can transfer an oem from one machine to another, yes not officially. what happens is Windows activation fails and then you call the Microsoft product activation, enter the activation code and she reads authorisation code, fully automated and sometimes you'll be asked how many computers have you installed this on and you say 1. I've never had to buy a new key from oem and I upgrade my computer every refresh.

Pain in the **** calling the activation line but it's fully automated and quite quick.

​so same as with previous windows o/s then, OEM lives and dues with the machine (officially at least)

It's not so bad :smiley: Just need to remember to reinstall a fresh copy windows 10 later on. I've upgraded 3 machines off windows 8 pro media upgrade keys which was cool as I didn't have an OS to upgrade off so £25 for 100% legal windows 8 pro media non oem keys was a good deal for me.

On the deal itself - good price but strictly speaking the key maybe genuine but you will be in violation of the licence terms. For home use I don't think Microsoft are going to be bothered, but don't do this for a business. Also the upgrade source licence affects what you can do after the upgrade..

OEM 7 / 8.x to Win 10 = No transfer allowed to new hardware
Retail 7 / 8.x to Win 10 = Can be transferred

Basically it will retain its transfer rights.

You only need "flag" the motherboard as upgraded once. After this is done the hardware is licenced for Win 10 using the call back to Microsoft option ie don't enter a key during install.

Also if you have bios embedded key instead of a COA sticker (thing with the Windows product key) then generally the upgrade will pick that up if use the newer ISO's / media creation tool - worked since the November update.

I don't believe that at all as I done exactly the same thing and they did not give me a new key I had to buy another one.

I have a pirated win 7 pro disc, worked for years and upgrades to win8 fine.

I upgraded win10 to a new SSD by 1st downloading the win10 upgrade onto a usb stick so that the laptop motherboard was 'recognised' .......or at least that's what I assume?
Then switched out the HD for the SSD and installed WIN10 from the usb stick and it's activated with no problems.
Depending on what I'm doing I switch from HD to SSD with no problems.

love the idea but just cant give them my details - even papal sends your billing address and i dont trust them

Force updates (whether they might actually make things worse or not)
"All apps" in the Start menu ...on a proper computer. How embarrassing.
Tablet mode (why??)
Barred from the right click to preview photo and video files (again - why)
Mail (hideous built-in mail client whereby you can't even customise it to a basic level due to Microsoft preferring you to pay money for that level of privilege)
There's a few starters - oh aside from the fact that as I previously detailed in another post, it refused to let me save something to my C: drive, due to some sort of "admin rights" issue, and after going in and opening up all admin rights it then generated a NEW excuse as to why it refused to let me save to my C: drive!! This was a complete non-issue in Windows 7. I built the damn PC and I had a full retail version - I think I'm allowed to alter stuff thanks. I had various attempts at trying to tell me "maybe you partitioned the hard disk wrong" or something. I was attempting the simple act of saving an innocuous file to my C: drive. I wanted on there so I could access it quickly, I wasn't trying to bloody decompile the registry.
I could provide many more things but to be honest I prefer to blot out the horrible experience as I've now upgraded to the final version of Windows that Microsoft put out, and couldn't be happier. :smiley:
Should add this is absolutely nothing to do with 'getting used to' or 'hating change'. At least Windows 3.11 to 95, 95 to 98, 98 to Xp, Xp to 7 (those were all the jumps I personally made I know there were more versions) were all STILL WINDOWS!! Windows 10 is not Windows. It is this horrible mess of a "oooh, yeah you want Windows to be just like your tablet, don't you! Yeah you want to unify everything between your PC and your Xbox One, yeh?"

NO

All other issues aside, it's pretty gross that people actually do direct upgrades and not fresh installs. Just imagine all the bloat that gets left behind...

the key is bound to your motherboard so if you change your mobo your key becomes invalid

This still does work ! MS don't really care, they want everyone on W10.

Microsoft should be paying us soon to use their bugged Operating systems.

​I did that and then, out of nowhere, my I got the, Windows is not genuine blah blah and before I could do anything it downgraded to the base edition and I was screwed. Thankfully I found a seller on eBay who sells the Win7 licence from scrapped pc's and actually sends you the holographic sticker. So far, so good (for a tenner)

What's the exact issue?

Works fine for me on all my machines, definitely slight improvement in performance too, though day to day, most people wouldn't notice it. If you want a terrible attempt at windows you need to go back to Windows ME.

mike

Aghast at why anyone would be buying this to downgrade to Windows 10. Terrible, terrible attempt at "Windows". Buy this and keep it!! Unless you like pretending your Core i7, 12gb RAM, GeForce 1080, 27" monitored beast is a iddle Linx tablet, there is literally no plus point in downgrading to Windows 10 - other than DirectX 12. Oh aside from.......no...that's it.

from a technical point of view this will work, from a licensing point of view - this is no more legit than downloading a torrent of w7 and upgrading. You are paying some random people who got W7/w8/W10 serial numbers off post-lease corporate computers. It's not stealing but close and definitely not in line with Microsoft EULA, so not sure what are you paying for, but it is definitely not a legitimate copy of Windows.

Google?

Or you can find original non-modified/hacked ISOs on torrent sites quite easily. Torrents do have legitimate uses.

To be fair to the company in their response to this customer they seemed confident that this was just a one off issue (and the other reviews and their overall feedback would seem to support this)

"Bogus" no, but if W7 has been successfully activated by even questionable means, it will qualify for w10 upgrade and result in MS activating that W10 installation as legitimate. This dubious state of affairs should cease when MS stop the free W10 entitlement at end July 2016.

I would like to know as well.

Trust pilot vets every review so I am very surprised this got through there 'sorry this does not conform to our rules....' Email?

one small issue there. His pc might not support 64 bit

Doesn't seem legit... https://uk.trustpilot.com/reviews/57641e820000ff00096739b9

why would you downgrade from ultimate to pro. Ask the question again
What you meant was......

Can I downgrade my pirated copy of Windows 7 ultimate to the pro version

Running Windows 8.1 pro on ssd, if I clone to another ssd and upgrade to windows 10 can I use both operating systems?

good find op, heat added

Tempting...but a bit of a gamble? You decide.


From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/howtotell/Shop.aspx | Beware of Product Keys Sold Separately

Pretty sure it still works, the upgrade offer ends in july.

Yep, surely a bogus W7 key won't be magically made legit by upgrading to W10?

I bought one of the last lot and it worked fine. Used an 8.1 Pro key to do a clean install of Windows 10. Accepted and activated no problem.

Its tied to the mother board i think and it is a legit license , you can reinstall a fresh copy of 10 and it sees your machine has a legit license on the server or something, it does work unless they stopped it very recent as i did it a few months ago.

Yes you can, using something like Daz loader you can upgrade and get a full digital entitlement activated license, exactly the same as if you upgrade with a legit license key.

i am on windows vista if i buy windows 10 pro will it works can can i upgrad without problems?? sorry i am not very good at computing .thanks

Everytime I switch it on!

Or you can just pirate windows 7 then upgrade to 10 for a legit copy free.

Bought Win 7 thanks - how do you actually install if you cant get the iso from microsoft?

Can anyone vouch for Opium Pulses? I've not heard of them.

Lovely and cheap.

Brain cells.

It did not work

If I buy a Windows 7 Pro OEM can I change my current product key (an Ultimate volume key) to the new one (effectively a downgrade) and then go through the Windows 10 Pro upgrade?

If this works, is the upgraded Windows 10 Pro also OEM (i.e. having risk of failing if you change hardware, etc)?

Will these OEM versions work with a Mac via Boot Camp does anyone know?