Solve : Vista torrent?

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Answer» According to this site, if I own a 32-bit retail copy of Vista business, provided I use my license key, I can send in for an upgrade DVD (for 9 bucks) with the 64-bit version of the same OS. However, since I already have a license key, is it legal to just download a torrent of the 64-bit DVD image? If I can save 9 bucks I'd rather do that. I'm a cheap skate There's no telling what you would get with that and we don't support torrents of illegal apps here...Sorry.If you are running Vista Business, maybe you are using Windows in a business? You'd have to be the shortsighted cheapskate of the century to prefer a Bit Torrent download of mission critical software when you can get a legal licenced pressed DVD for the sum of 9 dollars which you can return if it does not work. As patio says you do not know what you are getting. What you download could be full of Trojans or back doors or just plain corrupted files. And burned DVDs don't always last as long as pressed ones. Anyhow, when you use Bit Torrent to download a file, it is split into chunks, and as the download proceeds, you are sharing all your chunks that you have downloaded so far with all the members of the swarm, and uploading them to some, so even disregarding the licensing question, you would be sharing copyright material illegally. Quote from: patio on November 25, 2009, 06:56:37 AM There's no telling what you would get I kind of figured that, as SamTrout was also saying.....I think I'll just ORDER the DVDWere more than willing to send you 3 of the 9 Bucks....thx anyway... One will suffice Anyway, I already ordered it Good for you Got my 64 bit Vista TODAY and installed it.. I've been messing with it for a little while now. It's the first 64 bit OS I've ever had on one of my machines, besides the TIME I installed a 64 bit version of Fedora/Linux for a brief period, to test the EM64T extensions of the Pent. 4 646 processor in the computer.. After using the 32 bit version of Vista Business for a while, this certainly seems smoother, most likely due to the obvious--64 bits of code per register. I've got it dual-booted with my 32bit version so I also got to test out EASYbcd for the first time, besides only recommending it to others. Both names in the bcd file said "Microsoft Windows Vista" and I changed one to Vista 64 and the other to Vista 32 hee hee Cool OS at the least I currently run it side by side with Win7 64bit.....seems LIKE that would be an ideal setup for a tech. because if you must referrence one OS or the other you can switch over quickly. For the next 5 - 8 years that may just be perfect..My other benchtest machine has DOS/Win98SE/WinME/ and WinXP Pro on it.way to stay organized! If I were you, I might put XP onto the machine with Vista and 7, just to keep the old Kernal OS's on one machine and the NT kernal OS's on the other But I'm just weird like that Sometimes I feel like "Monk".

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According to this site, if I own a 32-bit retail copy of Vista business, provided I use my license key, I can send in for an upgrade DVD (for 9 bucks) with the 64-bit version of the same OS.

However, since I already have a license key, is it legal to just download a torrent of the 64-bit DVD image? If I can save 9 bucks I'd rather do that. I'm a cheap skate There's no telling what you would get with that and we don't support torrents of illegal apps here...Sorry.If you are running Vista Business, maybe you are using Windows in a business? You'd have to be the shortsighted cheapskate of the century to prefer a Bit Torrent download of mission critical software when you can get a legal licenced pressed DVD for the sum of 9 dollars which you can return if it does not work. As patio says you do not know what you are getting. What you download could be full of Trojans or back doors or just plain corrupted files. And burned DVDs don't always last as long as pressed ones.

Anyhow, when you use Bit Torrent to download a file, it is split into chunks, and as the download proceeds, you are sharing all your chunks that you have downloaded so far with all the members of the swarm, and uploading them to some, so even disregarding the licensing question, you would be sharing copyright material illegally.

Quote from: patio on November 25, 2009, 06:56:37 AM

There's no telling what you would get

I kind of figured that, as SamTrout was also saying.....I think I'll just ORDER the DVDWere more than willing to send you 3 of the 9 Bucks....thx anyway... One will suffice

Anyway, I already ordered it Good for you Got my 64 bit Vista TODAY and installed it.. I've been messing with it for a little while now. It's the first 64 bit OS I've ever had on one of my machines, besides the TIME I installed a 64 bit version of Fedora/Linux for a brief period, to test the EM64T extensions of the Pent. 4 646 processor in the computer..

After using the 32 bit version of Vista Business for a while, this certainly seems smoother, most likely due to the obvious--64 bits of code per register.

I've got it dual-booted with my 32bit version so I also got to test out EASYbcd for the first time, besides only recommending it to others. Both names in the bcd file said "Microsoft Windows Vista" and I changed one to Vista 64 and the other to Vista 32 hee hee

Cool OS at the least

I currently run it side by side with Win7 64bit.....seems LIKE that would be an ideal setup for a tech. because if you must referrence one OS or the other you can switch over quickly. For the next 5 - 8 years that may just be perfect..My other benchtest machine has DOS/Win98SE/WinME/ and WinXP Pro on it.way to stay organized!

If I were you, I might put XP onto the machine with Vista and 7, just to keep the old Kernal OS's on one machine and the NT kernal OS's on the other But I'm just weird like that

Sometimes I feel like "Monk".

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