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| Thread ID: 97180 | 2009-02-06 09:51:00 | WINDOWS 7 Beta and AVG 8 | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 745549 | 2009-02-06 09:51:00 | I've got the WIN7 beta installed in a dual boot with WinXP Home. I have installed AVG 8 on both OS. What seems to be happening is that after I have installed AVG on the second OS, the first one no longer recognises the license key and asks for it or for a re-install. Once I reinstall, then the other OS does the same thing! So my question is: does this happen with AVG in other dual-boot configs, or is it just a Win7 beta thing? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 745550 | 2009-02-06 10:27:00 | What may be happening is the License is seeing each OS as a separate PC, if its a single user license it cancels out the other - the two partitions shouldn't have anything to do with one another in the respect you mention. I wouldn't be surprised that if you put a different license on one the other would work fine as well. I know with Nod32, you can dual boot and the license is fine, as its licensed to the person not the machine / OS. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 745551 | 2009-02-06 19:31:00 | This is the free version of AVG we are talking about, so you ought to be able to install it as many times as you like. I agree the partitions shouldn't know anything about each other. The only place where there is any "overlap" is in the dual-boot environment. This is where my understanding gets very sketchy, but maybe AVG puts something in the MBR that then gets modified by each OS as it boots (or something equally magic...) I realized after my original post that I hadn't tried preserving the license key that AVG provides and then just re-pasting it when this situation arises, to see if that fixes it instead of a re-install, or whether it still gets stuffed when I boot the other OS. I'll try that this morning. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 745552 | 2009-02-06 21:16:00 | Hmmm, interesting. I'm not encountering the problem this morning, although it happened a couple of times yesterday. Leaving aside that it was being bolshie because of Waitangi Day, which I think we can all agree is unlikely, the only thing I can think of is that it depends on the order in which you uninstall/install the software on the two OS. Of course I have no idea which order I did it in yesterday, so it may just remain a mystery. One thing though - I did get a BSOD this morning when I tried to uninstall AVG on Win 7, so there would appear to be something not quite right there. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 745553 | 2009-02-06 21:30:00 | Just remember Windows 7 is Beta - its meant to have problems and faults - thats why it's free. If you are having problems with a certain application / operation hit the "send a report" (I think its called) - the reason MS and other places give out the Beta's is so people can report back any problems, then hopefully they can be fixed before it goes RTM. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 745554 | 2009-02-06 22:04:00 | Just remember Windows 7 is Beta - its meant to have problems and faults - thats why it's free. If you are having problems with a certain application / operation hit the "send a report" (I think its called) - the reason MS and other places give out the Beta's is so people can report back any problems, then hopefully they can be fixed before it goes RTM.You're absolutely right. The only reason I posted was to find out if this was a known problem in any dual-boot environment before I wasted anybody's time in posting unnecessary feedback. |
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