can i get a free window operating system from web?
2007-09-23 16:54:48 · 6 answers · asked by Balwant 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
Sure.
Try PCLinuxOS. (http://www.pclinuxos.com)
2007-09-23 17:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. This article is particularly for XP, but I'm sure it applies to everything else these days.
Install Problems – What Windows Does –Install on Another Computer – Product Key – 25-character code
“When you buy Windows XP in a shrink-wrapped box, you are allowed to install one copy on one PC. When Windows comes pre-installed on a new PC, it stays with the PC. You cannot transfer it from the bundled machine to a different machine. MS uses a technique called “BIOS locking” to make sure the copy stays ties to that specific PC forever.
Windows installer makes you type the 25-character code that’s printed on the case. The Product Activation program looks at various serial numbers inside your PC – the processor, network card, disk drives, etc. – mixes them together, and produces a second 25 character code that identifies your PC. These 50 characters, together, are called the Installation ID.
When you activate XP, you give MS the 50-character Installaton ID. If nobody else activated that 25-character code or if it has been activated with that specific Installation ID (which means you activated this particular copy of XP from the same PC twice) MS send back a 42-character Confirmation ID. The Installation ID and the Confirmation ID are stored on our PC.
If that 25-character code has been already been used on a different PC you will be notified that the number of times you can activate Windows with this product key has been exceeded.”
Source: paraphrased from p. 18, Windows Gigabook for Dummies, by Peter Weverka et al.
2007-09-24 00:23:28 · answer #2 · answered by TheHumbleOne 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are no Windows OS's that are free. You can get them free from the web but that is considered illegal as you are downloading pirated software.
If you download Microsoft pirated Windows they will surely find out about it and Bill Gates will send federal agents to your house who will then arrest you and throw you in a federal prison for the rest of your life where you will be cellmates with an oversized guy named "teddy bear" who will force you to cuddle with him on a nightly basis for the term of your prison sentence.
So I wouldn't download those "free windows" if I was you :oP
2007-09-24 00:06:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2007-09-24 00:03:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2007-09-24 00:04:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it's illegal...
2007-09-23 23:59:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋