Vista Activation

Anytime I do any major hardware upgrade on my computer, I reinstall Vista so I don't have conflicting drivers causing problems. I've had to do that 3 times in the past 7 months or so. (Been rigorously upgrading my computer, lol) This past time when I installed a new motherboard, it wouldn't let me activate over the internet. I had to go thru the task of calling MS for activation. Now is this going to be a problem for me down the road some. Are they going to say,"Nope we're not activating your product because we suspect you're installing vista on multiple computers" Which is completely untrue. I know I'm going to reinstall again at least once by the end of the year when I get my i7 processor, new mobo and ram. I really don't want to spend another 300 dollars on Vista Ultimate because MS won't activate my current copy of it.

Hello.


If you have full retail and not an OEM (system builders) Vista then you should have no problems at all, you may have to re-activate again though. Think of it this way: in essence, you're installing to a "new" machine whenever you make major upgrades.
















Later Ted

So even if I have to call MS everytime from here on to activate they will let me activate it right?

Shahal said:

So even if I have to call MS everytime from here on to activate they will let me activate it right?

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They should, as long as you have a "full retail" Vista and not OEM.














Later Ted

As Ted has said there should be no problem, if MS give you any hasstle just tell them your old computer failed so you went with a different bit. By the price it sounds as you do have a retail version which you should be allowed to install as many times as you want on one computer.

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