Lenovo Statement on Superfish

Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by dhimes on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:13PM (#9076185)

I've always been curious about how this work. If I buy a Win machine and want to keep Win (say to dual-boot), how do I do this? Buy a second OS disk? Torrent one and use my key?

I get it if I'm wiping out and putting on Linux or something, but that always seems like I'm wasting something I've already bought.

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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by Alupis on Thursday February 19, 2015 @02:34PM (#9076384)

You don't have to "waste" the windows license key you purchased... it allows you to do a fresh install and just use that key. You can use any windows ISO or disk to do the fresh install. In fact I think somewhere you can download the Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 ISO's directly from Microsoft.

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Re:Lenovo Statement on Superfish by dhimes on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:22AM (#9080101)

OK great- that was exactly what I was asking. The 'backup' files they ask me to make re-installs the original state of the machine- I assume that includes crapware. Thanks.

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