If your copy of Vista Business is retail, either full or upgrade, you may
upgrade your computer as you wish. The worst thing that may happen is that
Vista may determine that you have reached the trigger point for a
reactivation. If online reactivation fails, you will be able to reactivate
by telephone.
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"Jarol" <Jarol@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A59B5065-D488-45A2-AEDE-C9851D20373F@microsoft.com...
>I have Vista Business sitting on my desk and I'm dying to install it on my
> PC. But I must know about a question that has been nagging me.
>
> Microsoft has decreed that you may only do enough hardware upgrades to
> your
> PC before Vista determines you need to buy another license. The EULA was
> changed halfway through beta so I'm not sure at all anymore.
>
> My question is, can I upgrade my CPU and add more memory with Vista
> already
> installed, or should I wait until after I purchase the CPU to do so? As of
> right now, my PC is more then capable of handling the OS as it has with
> beta
> pretty nicely. But I want to take full advantage of the DX10 games and
> future
> development so its kind of vital I know before I go into installing the
> new
> OS.