I recently purchased a Gateway T-1616 from Best Buy and received my laptop yesterday. I am planning on upgrading to 2 GB of RAM so that Vista runs more smoothly. In my box there was a disk to reinstall Vista's operating system, and a piece of paper with a product key code for Microsoft Works, and Office trial but no disk. When I upgrade my RAM, I have been told that I will have to reinstall Vista and all other programs. How can I reinstall Microsoft Works without the disk? Is it possible to download it online and use the product code given to me by Gateway? I don't want just a trial version, I want to have a stable copy since I use it for school.
Thanks in advance for your help!
2007-12-07 04:46:16 · 6 answers · asked by Tiffany R 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
You were given some bad info. Installing ram has nothing to do with what is installed on your hard drive.
Now for the software. Works generates file extensions that most of us can't open anymore because you have to have Works installed to open these files, and Works is just not a good enough word processor to bother with.
Be careful with the "trial" version of Office. It is not fully functional, and will only last 60 day, after which you will either have to pruchase it or it will stop working. If you want and need a good set of office productivity tools, (word processor, spread sheet, graphics editor, etc, give Open Office a try. It's a pretty big download, but it works really well, well work with Microsoft file extensions, and it's "FREE". You can find it at:
http://www.openoffice.org
2007-12-07 04:54:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ron M 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No way you'll have to reinstall the OS for just upgrading the RAM. You need a lot more new components for any licence invalidation to kick in.
I'd still get hold of the manufacturer and ask them for the original discs should you need to reinstall in the future. Or check with Best Buy, maybe it was an open box and someone swiped that particular disc.
2007-12-07 12:50:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of reinstalling everything because you added ram.
The works program may be included on the windows disk or you can download the works installer from the microsoft web site (your key will work as long as you get the same version)and write it to cd before you add your ram.
2007-12-07 12:53:19 · answer #3 · answered by the_prankster 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is all on the disk with Vista. It will reinstall all of the applications that came with it. You wont need to reinstall Vista after you upgrade the ram though. Whoever told you that is misinformed
2007-12-07 12:53:14 · answer #4 · answered by OZ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you upgrade your ram you will not need to reinstall Vista, whoever told you that doesn't know what they are talking about. As for reinstalling Works, it should be included on the Vista Installation disc, but you should also be able to download Works from http://www.microsoft.com/products/works/.
2007-12-07 12:51:31 · answer #5 · answered by farp 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
vista is new, though, and mostly inconvenient; so there might be some truth
2007-12-07 12:55:39 · answer #6 · answered by gasket300 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋