Vista Activation

[Shahal]

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.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

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

 

[Shahal]

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

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

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

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














Later Ted

 

[roy69]

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.

 

[rbmorse]

withdrawn