The folks at the universityīookstores won't know this, nor will the folks on the academic software websites online. That is why the upgrade key will not show as valid. Academic Upgrade: Normally is to be used to upgrade a DIFFERENT operating system, such as XP or Vista to Windows 7. Otherwise, BEFORE you buy an upgrade, know this:ġ.
It will accept it, register it as a valid license key, and your problem will be solved.
Upon reboot, a window will pop up asking for you to put in the license key (e.g., here, from the Academic Upgrade disk). You will then be asked to restart (reboot).ħ. This will say "Resetting licensing software".Ħ. Download - next - Product Activation - Change product activation - Nextĥ Choose "Apply this fix". The support person will generate a pass key for you. Hours are 5am-9pm Mon-Fri, 6-3pm Sat & Sunday, Pacific Time USA.ģ.
Call Microsoft Tech Support at 1-80 (or local equivalent), and press 1 for Customer Support. I could not find a blog post to fix this and the computer manufacturer told
I also had purchased a Windows 7 Ultimate Academic Upgrade CD which I applied to a Windows 7 Home Premium box so that it became an Ultimate O/S - and got a "invalid key" message. She saved me tons of time and money as well as the angst from the day Thanks to a wonderfully smart, fast, and calm woman from Microsoft in Cebu for a VERY quick 5-minute and no-cost solution: I also made sure her supervisor got a compliment noted for her. I guess I get to call HP to get help on a MicroSoft product that I purchased from BestBuy because I decided to buy a pre-built desktop rather than a custom made system thinking that this would be the quick and easy way to go since HP and MS HAD to be working together to give the consumer a superior product and a superior buying experience than dealing with an e-mail order. HP does not even have on the product support pages a single word about a Windows 7 upgrade from the lower end OS's to the higher end OS's, just about upgrades from XP or Vista to Windows 7. VERY FRUSTRATING! My wife is ticked off because she feels the system is totally unreliable.ĥ) I have tried everthing short of spending hours on the telephone to try to fix the issue through forums, web searches, etc. Constant blue screen crashes (seems to be related to Norton 360, still trying to figure that one out), won't take certain Window updates, and now this with anytime upgrade. I have NEVER been as frustrated with a Microsoft product as I have been with Windows 7.
1) The PC came pre-installed with an activated version of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.Ģ) I purchased at BestBuy the Windows 7 Professional 64 bit upgrade.ģ) Tried the Anytime Upgrdae with the right activation key for the correct upgrade product: I hava no go after the Key verification, "accept the license term" screen, click throught the "upgrade" button, move on to the "upgrade could take as few as ten minutes" message, then 2 minutes later BANG right to "Windows Anytime Upgrade was not successful" message.Ĥ) I have had PC's back to the MS-DOS 4.01 days followed by MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP.