Quick Q about Win7 and my current programs

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For example MS Office, Adobe lightroom, Photoshop - these all needed licence keys (as far as I can remember) when I installed them on Vista. Will there be any problems installing them on 7 when I upgrade? Can't find anything about it on Microsoft's site
 
basically, as neil said, if it works in Vista it'll work in 7.
 
Your question was about licence keys, these will work just the same under win7.
 
if you do an inplace upgrade from Vista to 7, you wont need to reinstall anything.

you'll only need to reinstall if you format your harddisc and do a completely clean install - in which case use the license keys you currently have.
 
Cool. So MS or adobe won't think it's someone trying to install their software on an extra machine? Sorry if it's a silly Q, just not seen it mentioned anywhere.. :thumbs:
 
nope, shouldn't be a problem mate - and if it doesn't like it, call them to explain and they will sort it all out for you :]
 
I've installed Norton Internet Security repeatedly on my laptop and although it shows no licences left on mynortonaccount.com it accepts that the machine I'm installing on is one that is already licensed.

I think with Adobe, do you not have to deactivate it? Although I'm not sure if that only applies to moving to a different machine as surely if your hard drive failed you'd have to reinstall on the same machine anyway.
 
If it's neccessary, it's really easy to deactivate adobe products (I've done it with web premium cs4 when I had a faulty macbook pro). Takes a few seconds and much less of a hassle then calling/emailing adobe support, which tends to take far longer (as in weeks) than you had hoped.
Have a search of the adobe forums and you might find someone has the same issue.
 
Things like Office look at the hardware in your computer (serial numbers, the MAC address of your Ethernet card, etc) to come up with a unique hardware profile (for want of a better description). There won't be a problem entering your serial and the hardware profile will be the same from your previous install and the W7 one, so activation shouldn't be an issue either. Even if there are activation problems, you just call up Microsoft and explain what's happened and they'll activate for you. For MS products like Office, serial numbers are validated inside the installer only - no internet connection needed.
 
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