Clean install of Windows 7 with Upgrade version not Full version

[benwood]

I bought the Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Family Pack and want to use it on a clean installation on my newly built computer and I don't want to do the double installation trick. I tried using these instructions http://blog.chriskankiewicz.com/post/10/windows-7-activation-hack/ . But when I went to make the registry changes I couldn't find "...Setup\OOBE" under the CurrentVersion directory. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm a novice regarding the directory so please be very explicit in your instructions. Or is there another way to do a clean install with Windows 7 upgrade. A lot of the instructions on how to do so on Google are obsolete as Microsoft has fixed some of the loopholes.

 

[ViRGE]

It just means you need to create the necessary keys by hand. If you're not comfortable doing that, the following command (run from a prompt with administrator privileges) should do the trick.

REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE /v MediaBootInstall /t reg_dword  /f /d 0

 

[benwood]

It just means you need to create the necessary keys by hand. If you're not comfortable doing that, the following command (run from a prompt with administrator privileges) should do the trick.

REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\OOBE /v MediaBootInstall /t reg_dword  /f /d 0

I did a cut & paste to a CMD window and got the following message "Error: Access is denied". What did I do wrong?

 

[ViRGE]

I did a cut & paste to a CMD window and got the following message "Error: Access is denied". What did I do wrong?

That means you didn't do it from a prompt with admin privileges. CTRL-SHIFT-ENTER when bringing up a command prompt.