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so the topic of today's video is how to downgrade a copy of microsoft Windows 7

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professional or Windows 7 ultimate so what downgrade means is that for the

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first 18 months after october 22nd 2009

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you are allowed to buy a copy of Windows 7 professional then what you do is you

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call up microsoft customer service at 1-800-936-5700

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basically what you say to them is okay i bought a copy of Windows 7 and i want to

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use Windows xp for now so what you're able to do is you give them your Windows

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7 product key which is on the back here and i'm not going to show you that too

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carefully they read you out well first

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of all they verify your Windows 7 product key then they read you back a

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Windows xp product key then you just take any old Windows xp disk that you

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can find you can even download an iso if you have a tech net subscription and

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then you install Windows xp using that key when you're finally ready to go to

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Windows 7 maybe your office is upgrading all at the same time or maybe you're

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just not quite ready but you just want to buy Windows 7. so you have it for

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later all you do is pop in your Windows 7 cd and install Windows 7. and that

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will invalidate the Windows xp license that you were using temporarily thanks

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for checking out my video blog on Windows 7 downgrade