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| | Product Key Problems I bought windows vista ultimate in may of 2007 to upgrade from XP, it ran fine until feb 2008, when my graphics card failed and i thought my windows messed up, causing me to erase windows, so i had to take it to Data Doctors to get XP back on so i could upgrade to Vista, well now its not letting me activate my windows because my product key is already in use and im using the same key from my Ultimate box! |
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| | Re: Product Key Problems You can select Activate by Phone, and give Microsoft a call and they will get you activated and back up and running. Basically, it shows that it is already in use because you had it installed and activated previously. -- Dustin Harper dharper@xxxxxx http://www.vistarip.com | Vista Resource & Information Page "Robert" <Robert@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:72285B24-06AA-4CB7-A57B-9A69B5D003E2@xxxxxx Quote: >I bought windows vista ultimate in may of 2007 to upgrade from XP, it ran > fine until feb 2008, when my graphics card failed and i thought my > windows > messed up, causing me to erase windows, so i had to take it to Data > Doctors > to get XP back on so i could upgrade to Vista, well now its not letting me > activate my windows because my product key is already in use and im using > the > same key from my Ultimate box! |
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| | Re: Product Key Problems You can reset your Windows Vista activation by performing the following: 1. Click on the Start button and in the Start Search box type in: slui.exe 4 2. Press the Enter key on your keyboard. 3. Select your Country. 4. Follow the instructions for phone activation. 5. Once completed, restart your computer. -- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User --------------------------------------------------------------- "Robert" wrote: I bought windows vista ultimate in may of 2007 to upgrade from XP, it ran fine until feb 2008, when my graphics card failed and i thought my windows messed up, causing me to erase windows, so i had to take it to Data Doctors to get XP back on so i could upgrade to Vista, well now its not letting me activate my windows because my product key is already in use and im using the same key from my Ultimate box! |
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