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Vista - Autherize VISTA

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Old 05-04-2007   #1 (permalink)
erik


 
 

Autherize VISTA

i just bought a new motherboard, and replaced my old one. Now vista is always
complaining to activate windows, but when i want to active it it says the
serial # is already in use. Yea by my old motherboard. Anyway to fix it?

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Old 05-04-2007   #2 (permalink)
Dustin Harper


 
 

Re: Autherize VISTA

You can choose to activate by phone and tell Microsoft that you replaced
your MB and they should activate it for you.

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Dustin Harper
dharper@vistarip.com
http://www.vistarip.com

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"erik" <erik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>i just bought a new motherboard, and replaced my old one. Now vista is
>always
> complaining to activate windows, but when i want to active it it says the
> serial # is already in use. Yea by my old motherboard. Anyway to fix it?


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