Reactivating Windows 7

[Lysander]

I want to change the motherboard and CPU of a computer that runs Windows 7 [retail edition]. Will this cause issues? Will I be able to/have to reactivate since W7 isn't supported anymore?

 

[MagicBoy]

If it's just the board, you'll probably get away with it. There's a threshold for a certain number of items changing. 5 from 10 IIRC.

New board will usually trip the MAC address and disk controllers check. Keep the same GPU,CPU, RAM and drives and it should be fine.

Last time I checked, 7 would still activate. A fresh installation requires patching up before it'll activate as the root certificates to connect to the servers were updated at some point.

 

[Lysander]

If it's just the board, you'll probably get away with it. There's a threshold for a certain number of items changing. 5 from 10 IIRC.

New board will usually trip the MAC address and disk controllers check. Keep the same GPU,CPU, RAM and drives and it should be fine.

Last time I checked, 7 would still activate. A fresh installation requires patching up before it'll activate as the root certificates to connect to the servers were updated at some point.

Ah, I should have said I will be changing the CPU as well.

 

[MagicBoy]

Motherboard and CPU will likely trip it.

 

[Lysander]

Motherboard and CPU will likely trip it.

Which is fine, but is it even possible to reactivate W7 these days since it's out of support?

EDIT: apparently it can be:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...s 7 can still be,the lack of security updates.

Windows 7 can still be installed and activated after end of support

 

[MagicBoy]

Which is fine, but is it even possible to reactivate W7 these days since it's out of support?

See post 2!