I will contact you once I install the same. Downloaded w7 ISO easily, just wondering if you do a reinstall with one of these, it will not be considered genuine and will not be activated unless you have a product key? Like with every Windows 7 install disc, you need a genuine product key to activate it. That can be a key from a sticker or if your computer was made by the likes of Dell or HP, you can backup the OEM key before reinstalling.
Thanks for the reply. Amazing site btw, a lot of great information. One more question. If that is the case your computer will not activate after reinstall. Fantastic post. Great info, loved the java trick. Thank you — now i can reinstall my oem build from legit source. Downloading and installing KB and the Rollup update KB will save a lot of time during updating though.
Great tutorial! Everything I need know, in terms I can understand, and steps I can actually perform. I was able to create an all consumer editions bootable DVD. Solutions or a link to everything I needed to do from start to finish.
Far more than I hoped to find in a single source. This really is a superb article. Many thanks. All he had was the Licence Key and no restore disk or anything. The procedure you describe worked a treat, and thanks for having the forethought to provide the SHA1 checksums for the various ISO files downloaded. Microsoft seem to have taken that page down for some reason. It seems to me that it would be a good idea to use a proxy to hide your IP address and to use a computer which does not have any MS products installed.
I would be very surprised if MS does not include spyware whenever one of their products is installed so that they can identify the computer. While downloading the two versions of 7 and 8. It took many rounds of account verification and entering codes before it would finally let me log in to Live. But since there are few companies more slimy and sneaky than MS, I am concerned that they might do something like block access to their web site or product updates. Before this I had never thought I would have a need to use a proxy to hide my identity.
My downloads continued and the SHA1 checksums verified correctly. I did have trouble getting to the pages that had the links to download 7 and 8.
Since the time I search a clean version of win7, problem solved in few seconds except the downlading ; Thank you! No free upgrades from Vista to Win7 are available. Or do we have to surgically remove all that telemetry that Microsoft has slathered on these operating systems lately? For Windows 8. Haha that non-JS method is just hilarious. Thanks HAL!!! This is really, really great info.
What is the difference between these? I cannot find any information on this. Which would reinstall a PC by Dell, HP, Acer, etc on a replacement hard drive that would allow the key code to be accepted? There are three key codes. Which ISOs, if any, will match which of these key codes? Microsoft makes this very confusing. If you can you shed some light on this, it would be very helpful? As these are not required for general users we left them out of the modified script.
The standard Windows 7 downloads will cover almost everything including retail and OEM so you can use the key from the sticker. The only thing they do not cover is the OEM pre installed keys, which if the computer was purchased from HP, Dell etc will be the key you find in Magic Jellybean and is different to the one on the sticker.
That is quite correct, I have done similar many times. I appreciate your work, thank you very much :D. Thanks mate, much appreciated. Monday, December 31, PM.
Did you try to be selective? Mckenzie 7. Your stuff has got to be more end user friendly, not just your desktop OS. Tuesday, January 8, AM. Thanks in advanced. Tuesday, January 15, PM. This month we had no failures. However, we use WSUS, approve one update and roll out one update. We repeat this process a number of days until all updates are applied. I always start with the "malicious software removal tool". Next day I pick up the CU. I'll do manual installs at some point when it's convenient.
Andrew www. Wednesday, January 23, AM. Has anyone tested Windows server to see if it is better for patch install times? Friday, January 25, PM. I was just wondering the same thing. I'd hate to have to migrate everything back to R2. It hasn't been slow for several months until just recently.
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Just wondering if there has been any updates to why Windows are so slow to update. If anyone has any updates, please post to this thread. Wednesday, March 20, AM. Luckily this is not a production server Wednesday, March 20, PM. Never seen any server version update this poorly! When is SP1 coming to fix this?! Friday, April 19, AM. Ok its happening right now to one of my windows servers!. I have been sitting here waiting to get RDP access to the server and wanting to go home!!!
It has taken over two hours with no response although the web server was up for all the time bar a minute of downtime in the last few mins while it rebooted. There has still been no explanation from MS as to why the download is really very very slow and then installation of updates is also very very slow. This is all exceptionally annoying and good motivation for not using windows in a web server environment.
Friday, April 19, PM. Monday, April 22, PM. Wednesday, May 1, PM. In place upgrade just works like an W10 update to the newer builds. Haha, ok yes I have seen Server geting the updates faster, but give it some time eh? Also really I do not like doing inplace upgrades on production server. But hey maybe I am just old skool hey? Great to hear that is slightly faster than , which was just pure pain updating imo.
Friday, May 3, AM. Why on Earth would this be marked as a solution to the problem? Wednesday, May 15, PM. Clean boot is the proposed answer to nearly every issue on the Technet forums Is an AI bot answering these? Wednesday, June 12, PM. Same problem, using WSUS without problems with Windows server R2, migrated to wsus with 2k16 with clients included new vms , and the problems begin, never works as expected, very slow to download from wsus, very slow to install, very slow for everything, these are the kind of things that makes me hate Windows!
Thursday, June 20, PM. Similar problem here - freshly provisioned Server vm's on ESXi 6. This is prior to joining a domain so WSUS is not involved and without antivirus deployed to eliminate those from consideration. Any suggestions on how to speed this up are appreciated. Monday, June 24, PM. Fresh reboot of the server. I agree with other post's that Microsoft should offer a "free" upgrade to the OS. Thursday, June 27, PM. Wednesday, July 3, PM. Monday, July 8, PM. I hope this answer reaches the masses.
Wednesday, July 10, PM. One thing to keep in mind with Express is that it consumes an enormous amount of disk space which becomes relevant if your running it on a SAN it can get costly.
Sunday, July 14, AM. Just here to pile on. This is still an issue in July All of my servers take hours to process updates. Everything else is normally done in under 30 minutes. Good to know that this is just the new, terrible normal.
Wednesday, July 24, AM. Saturday, August 10, AM. Same here!!! This is getting ridiculous! Wednesday, August 21, PM. The same is just going on here on a Hyperv-Host and its guests, both with Server Standard. Best greetings from Germany Olaf. Friday, August 30, PM. Hello Everyone, I had this exact problem windows server took multiple hours to update, following several resources i created this guide for slip streaming the iso.
Wednesday, September 4, PM. Same nightmare here. It's just a ploy to get us to move our stuff to Azure. Thursday, September 5, AM. Monday, September 9, AM. Andrew, my update experience with is pure joy. From fresh install done August to fully updated, done in less than an hour!!! Windows updates are completely broken at this point.
I can't wait until I can dump all Windows and just run Linux But still have Line of Business apps that require it. Despite Microsoft's "commitment to quality" updates are getting worse and worse. It's gross incompetence. Thursday, September 12, PM. This does not just effect Server It effects every OS that is built on I have multiple LTSB machines that have the same issue. It's complete dog shit. Saturday, September 14, AM.
LTSB is horrific for updating. Takes forever. LTSC is much better. Same here. Does Microsoft have any plans on optimizing this on Server , or should we just upgrade OS? Monday, September 23, AM. Just to update everyone in here with if this has been fixed.
It has not been fixed. Lawd have mercy! Wednesday, September 25, PM. Thursday, September 26, AM. Thanks you in advance!! Friday, September 27, AM. Windows has the same problem.. I will stay in for a long time, and are disgusting. Sunday, October 6, AM. Monday, October 7, PM.
Wednesday, October 9, PM. Good job mods mark a confirmation post as an answer. It's not an answer, there apparently is no answer and never will be an answer. Been dealing with slow updates on for a while now. What a waste of time for the systems I have to manually update. Sunday, October 20, AM.
I ran into this issue and found an answer on a Microsoft posting. Of course Windows update does them in the wrong order. Tuesday, November 5, AM. Most important, it will dramatically shorten the most annoying thing - long reboot time with the "Getting Windows ready You don't have to run this command before each and any update, but it seems to be useful at least once in each few months.
It does not interfere too much with normal server workload and can be started even in production hours, because it usually does not use more then one CPU core. You dont need to install Office on KMS server. Thanks for the great article, my question what if i need to activate just Visio and Project without all office apps shall i will use the same procedure or it will be different? If i have an environment of workstation that I reimage every 6 months and i only have VL of office When I activate the workstation, I will use up the licenses but what if i reimage the computers on the 6 months.
What will happen? In that case, if you are using KMS server to activate Office , all computers will be activated. You could have licenses and can activate computers against it.
Only a little window suggesting to use slmgr. Thanks for great article. Citrix for publishing office thru Xen App 7. Hi Great Article. Quick question which you may be able to answer for me.
We have an environment with computers. Do I need to run slmgr. Your old KMS server can activate unlimited number of Office copies.
Hi thanks for this article. Thank you. For Windows Server R2 Core, your command line instructions at the end of the article work perfectly.
Microsoft Office activation keys or product key can be used to activate your trial or limited edition of Office suite. After activating your version of Microsoft office you can avail full features of any of office applications including Microsoft Word , Excel , Outlook and PowerPoint Luckily, you can find a free genuine Microsoft Office product key online.
A Microsoft Office product key activates the software to its premium version. The premium or paid version gives you access to all the editions of Office
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