Give me a reason to keep Windows 7 DVDs?

All PCs at home have been replaced by Mac whatever. The old Windows 7 Home Premium and Windows 7 Professional are migrated to Windows 10 as Virtual Machines in Mac, and frankly they are open very occasionally.

Is there any reason to keep the Windows 7 DVDs?

 

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Is Windows DVD and Windows Installation CD the same thing? I need a Windows 7 Pro. Installation and repair CD

 

When Windows 10 goes belly-up (as it inevitably will), you will be grateful for the Win 7 DVDs if you still need to use Windows for anything.

 

Chumpkin: Is this the Dell listed in your system specs.?Did that come with Win XP Pro 32-bit preinstalled? My old desktop was 16 years old when I had to retire it. I built it and installed Win XP Pro. Then upgraded most of the hardware, purchased and installed Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit using an OEM DVD. Is that what you basically did, if so, then the Win 7 DVD and Installation DVD are one in the same. If you go to Control Panel\Backup and Restore. Look in the Left Pane it gives the option to Create a system repair disc. I suggest you create one. Just in case you experience some sort of catastrophic error. Whenever I purchase a new laptop the first the thing I do is create a set of recovery DVDs and a system repair DVD.

 

Thanks ij50: I have Windows 7 Pro. I took your advice and burned a Backup Restore CD.
My machine was given to me for Christmas and did not have an Installation CD. Program Key. I have a Dell Desktop machine I sent the system specs. to the Forum.

 

You're welcome. Glad to of some help.

 

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ij50: A while back some one posted that the program key was in the registry. If this is true, how do I find it? Thanks for your help.

 

H_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion. In the right pane highlight DigitalProductId(32-bit) DigitalProductId4(64-bit). But you find it's a binary value.

 

ij50 Thank you for the info. but I am afraid to mess with the registry. I am a 81 yr. old man and don't feel comfortable in the registry. I downloaded Belarc Adviser and found what it sais was the product installation key for my Win 7 Pro. It don' t look any product key that I have seen.1st block has 5 numbers 2nd. block has 3 numbers and the other blocks has different numbers in the block and letters in the last block. I thank you again. I will mark this thread resolved.
Best Wishes, Johnny

 

I could not mark the thread Resolved, only unsubscribe from thread

 

Hi Evan:
Evan I did not hijack that thread. I had a thread posted about the difference in a dvd an a cd and got a notification that ils0 had responded, and it gave the location of the response link. When I clicked the link il50 had tied it into another link. I thought this was strange and against the posting rules but went ahead and communicated with il50. I am sorry about this infraction and if anything like that comes up again I will not answer.
Best Wises cbumpkin

 

Evan: I'm sorry this happened. I really believed that it would be ok It won't happen again. I appreciate you correcting me.

Evan I think of you as a friend so I will tell you that the neurologist diagnosed me having Muscular Dystrophy to go along with the Parkinson's disease. Prayers needed.
Hope I don't get in trouble for inserting this personal message. Thanks