Seems that you can perform a clean install of Windows 7 – with an upgrade disk (read much cheaper here).

Normally, if you install with an upgrade disk, you cannot activate windows.  The work around is to perform a clean install, ensure that there are no pending Windows Updates waiting to install (orange shield on restart icon), and make the following registry change:

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Change MediaBootInstall from "1" to "0".

Open Regedit (Start, Type in Regedit and press enter)

Click “Yes” on the User Access Control

Navigate Regedit to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Setup/OOBE/

Right click on the MediaBootInstall key and choose Modify.  Change the “1” to a “0”

Restart the computer, and you should be able to activate your “Clean” install of Windows 7!

Now, easier than before, Microsoft has released a handy utility to turn an ISO image of Windows 7 into a bootable DVD or Flash drive!

Select the ISO file for Windows 7

Choose USB or DVD

That’s it!

It doesn’t get much easier than this!  I will say, that I have first knowledge that installing Windows 7 with a USB device is MUCH faster than with DVD.  From start to finish, USB only took about 20 minutes… DVD took close to 30-40 minutes.

[ Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool ]

With the biggest and best launch to date, Microsoft has launched, in my opinion, the best operating system to come out from Redmond Washington.  Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.  Get your credit card out, and download it today!

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