I would like to do a fresh installation of windows 7 on my laptop via booting from flash drive, I'm wondering if there is a free version of windows 7 i can download and if you could point me in the right direction it would be much appreciated !

There is no "free" windows 7.
Don't you have the CD key on the back of the laptop maybe?

Free... and Windows

Hmmmm never heard of such a thing

Your key is stored in registry. Its encrypted tho.

You might have an UEFI-embedded key:
Open windows powershell
put in: (Get-WmiObject -query 'select * from SoftwareLicensingService').OA3xOriginalProductKey

Else this is quite easy.

Create a text document > copy in the code shown > name it See_Product_key.VBS

Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
MsgBox ConvertToKey(WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\DigitalProductId"))

Function ConvertToKey(Key)
Const KeyOffset = 52
i = 28
Chars = "BCDFGHJKMPQRTVWXY2346789"
Do
Cur = 0
x = 14
Do
Cur = Cur * 256
Cur = Key(x + KeyOffset) + Cur
Key(x + KeyOffset) = (Cur \ 24) And 255
Cur = Cur Mod 24
x = x -1
Loop While x >= 0
i = i -1
KeyOutput = Mid(Chars, Cur + 1, 1) & KeyOutput
If (((29 - i) Mod 6) = 0) And (i <> -1) Then
i = i -1
KeyOutput = "-" & KeyOutput
End If
Loop While i >= 0
ConvertToKey = KeyOutput
End Function




- If you are not able to change the file type follow this: http://www.mediacollege.com/microsoft/windows/extension-change.html

This post was edited by ZwiX on Sep 7 2016 03:00pm

i do have my registry key, i entered it on the microsoft website to verify + download but it's been sitting at this page for nearly 10 min:

got this error message:



what do

Check your PMs.

First and foremost since this is a laptop he should be chekcing for a recovery partion.