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javeryh:
I ended up ordering an ASUS "gaming" monitor. 27"/1080p/1ms/144hz. We shall see...

I have only had time to install the CPU, RAM and SSD onto the motherboard. Back to school night this week plus a million activities. I'm hoping to boot up this weekend if I can find a block of time. I've watched a ton of youtube videos so hopefully I'll know what I'm doing. I still haven't purchased the Windows license...

BadMouth:

--- Quote from: knave on September 23, 2019, 09:38:33 pm ---PSA for all my friends at byoac: until otherwise stated windows 10 will register or authenticate with a windows “7” key. Then your pc (mostly motherboard) is registered as licensed by Microsoft and future installs will activate automatically.

There are some possible nuances to this but it works...

Bottom line try prior to buying any licenses

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Thanks for posting about this. I had turned down the Win 10 update years ago when it was free.
With windows 7 support being dropped this January (last I heard anyway), I came to regret that decision.
This worked on my 7 year old Alienware laptop, so I'll get a few more years out of it. ;D

DaOld Man:
I upgraded to win10, and Im thinking of rolling back to 7. My facebook is slower than a snail with constipation. And these security issues keep popping up telling me my FProt anti virus is turned off, but it shows as being on. I think MS just keep digging deeper into your stuff with each new version. Im sure I had these problems when I first upgraded to win10 before my HD crash, but I cant remember what I did to fix it, and all the web tips dont seem to help.

javeryh:
I spent most of yesterday putting the computer together in between soccer games and baseball games and trying to watch the Giants. Anyway, I got it up and running. I'm quite pleased with myself because it was much harder than I thought it was going to be just because so much has changed since the last time I did this. I installed Windows 10 off of the USB Installer I downloaded from the MS website - no license required. It seems to work fine?

Anyway, I think I need to figure out how to update my motherboard (BIOS/drivers) so that is next on my to-do list. Then I need to figure out anti-virus protection - is Windows Defender enough? What do you guys recommend?

By the way, the M.2 SSD seems insanely fast. I couldn't believe how fast Windows installed - took less than a minute.

Drnick:
I don't know what everyone else is doing, but I now just run Defender and have Malwarebytes. I always have Firewall enabled. I use Firefox with Ad blocker, I've had no issues for the past few years :)

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