Recent content by Throat Wobbler Mangrove

Finally, thanks for all your feedback -- I guess I just missed the cutoff by having Vista instead of 7

Yes, and thank you for your patience here -- sorry I didn't make myself more clear in the first posts. I have read tonight that Windows 10 activates on its own somehow after a few days, and so I'm hoping that maybe that will happen to this installation I've just done, but possibly it won't...

Well, damn.

Actually, no, no -- I'm not running into any issues whatsoever with this 64-bit Windows 10 I just installed yesterday. Well, actually, the only issue I'm running across is the fact that there's only 2 GB of RAM on this machine, which is the A205-S5831. And even though I am reading in the...

Oh, wait -- by "internet or phone service", do you mean ways I might have gotten help from Microsoft? Because I haven't tried that yet. Do you think they might somehow supply me with a product key, given my situation?

No, no, no -- there was no "error", and therefore no error code. All it said was that the product key I typed in was not valid. And I did all this within the Windows 10 install, after it did in fact completely install, but before any activation. Also, I don't know what you mean by "the...

What I've tried to do so far is enter the product key on the bottom of the Toshiba, but there was no error code, the system just said the key wasn't valid. And I did double-check the key and I did enter it correctly. And so what I'm trying to do is activate this 64-bit Windows 10 OS that I...

I have a somewhat bizarre problem wherein I have an old Toshiba laptop from about 2007-2008 that has Windows Vista 32-bit version on it, but apparently it's always had a 64-bit motherboard in it. It was apparently assembled at that time when 64-bit CPUs and motherboards were released, but...