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Originally Posted by Katsunami
And from my own posts: I've resolved that by keeping an activated image on an external hard drive. Once in a while, that image gets updated. When I'd need to re-install, I'll just put that image onto the computer and it's activated already.
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So long as you never upgrade your hardware for any reason, sure, that will work. But you still had to do the initial activation. You can't set the PC up in the first place without this reliance on Microsoft, which was my point. You also can't do major upgrades to it, which makes it more disposable. And are you really going to want to run Windows 7 beyond 2020? I guess if what you do on a PC never changes, that could work out. That won't be the case for most PC users though.
Personally, I didn't bother making a complete image, but I did used to back up all my important stuff to an external drive. Then the damn thing failed when I needed it. I could have set up a RAID arrangement but that's a lot of hassle. Instead all my backups are in the cloud now, which has had the side effect of making my life a lot easier. No more hassle syncing and transferring. It's all there and it's all accessible to all my devices. There's no going back for me.