

You only have my word as I have no evidence of the sealed nature of the package, and I do not want to provide a screen shot of the Amazon order as I don't want to divulge such information. For what it's worth, I got this off Amazon new, everything was sealed. I have no idea why I can't see a product key sticker on the unit, research on other forums has suggested that Asus actually put it on the inside, around where the battery sits. Yes some honest people will be caught short by this set of rules, ALL dishonest people will be shown the door as a result.Īnd I am one of those people. Not stating this is the case, it is just that Tom's asks that no such info is provided in ALL situations. What if scenario: How do we know that this person will not go to someone elses PC and use the "extractor" to get a "free product key. Why is anybody providing guidance to product key extraction? or even the providence of the machine is questionable. or perhaps no sticker means its not new? and has been removed by prev owner. call ASUS and ask them where the sticker is. Licence rules from MS state that the cert must be attached to the machine.so where is yours? if you bought new. Tom rules say we should not help people get past security.so I didnt. So it was not that I didnt understand the question. The key part of my answer was "There are ways to get the key. Simply only ever using the partition assumes I want all the bloatware crap included with the laptop when I do a fresh install. Second of all, since I bought this laptop and the license for Windows 7 that it runs on, I have the right to know it. First of all, that doesn't answer the question.
