I have had some hard drive issues recently, and have therefore installed
windows several times on the same machine and activated it, while trying to
get my system running, now it says that the product key is in use, how can i
resolve this problem?
I have had some hard drive issues recently, and have therefore installed
windows several times on the same machine and activated it, while trying to
get my system running, now it says that the product key is in use, how can i
resolve this problem?
You can get started with phone activation by typing "slui.exe 4"
(w/o the quotes) in the Start Search box in the Start Menu and pressing
Enter.
The phone activation process takes about 6 minutes.
"Carl" <Carl@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:EC8783EA-0676-484A-9BD7-780F114BD3AF@xxxxxx
I have had some hard drive issues recently, and have therefore installed
windows several times on the same machine and activated it, while trying to
get my system running, now it says that the product key is in use, how can i
resolve this problem?
"Carl" <Carl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EC8783EA-0676-484A-9BD7-780F114BD3AF@xxxxxxto
> I have had some hard drive issues recently, and have therefore installed
> windows several times on the same machine and activated it, while tryingi
> get my system running, now it says that the product key is in use, how can
> resolve this problem?
call Microsoft and explain the situation...
chances are they'll take care if it ASAP


In addition to Carey's suggestion, this tutorial will show you how to do a phone activation step by step.
Activate Vista by Phone
Shawn
see this link on my website:
http://vistasupport.mvps.org/product...ady_in_use.htm
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"Carl" <Carl@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:EC8783EA-0676-484A-9BD7-780F114BD3AF@xxxxxx
>I have had some hard drive issues recently, and have therefore installed
> windows several times on the same machine and activated it, while trying
> to
> get my system running, now it says that the product key is in use, how can
> i
> resolve this problem?
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