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activating vista
JamesJ jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup It didn't take long for the format. "John Barnes" <jbar...@email.net> wrote in message news:uWN8P%23kcIHA.4144@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... The format and install is also a clean install, but the drive is completeley formatted (erased)

Activating Vista Home Premium
NickP a...@a.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Hi Brink, I have not heard of this happening to others yet. Have you been able to reactive your Vista. If not a phone activation will do it for you. http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/84488-activate-vista-phone.html Yup, I managed to reactivate fine as

Activating Vista
Alias iamal...@shoesgmail.com. microsoft public windows vista general Bill Yanaire wrote: So if you need help with Microsoft you can come to the microsoft.public forums and ask your question. Free. But with the privledge of asking your free question, you will get the Ubuntu Marketing Department trying to convert

Help re-activating Vista
I'm willing to buy my own copy of Vista, but will I be able to activate it without installing it? I don't want to wipe out my disk. Thank you, ---Robert I guess the equivalent questions are o) Can I do an upgrade in-place from a full copy of Vista, or do I need the upgrade copy? o) Can I do the upgrade in-place of

activating vista
philo ph...@privacy.net microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "JamesJ" <jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com> wrote in message news:uwqVPEVcIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... There is no option to activate by phone after I enter the key code then click next. I just get the error message 0xc004f061 saying the code is

activating vista
Cal Bear '66 x...@xxx.org microsoft public windows vista general Use phone activation and speak to a real person -- I Bleed Blue and Gold GO BEARS! I got vista about a month ago and I just put new memory in today. I noticed that it wants me to re-activate windows. When I go to do that, it says that my product

Notified of hardware change within 12 hours of Service Pack 1 ...
JamesJ jjy@darwin_roadrunner.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Maybe do another upgrade install? I just gave it a try by typing in a random number... and you are right...there is no phone activation option. With XP, that was an option I've used and it only took a few minutes.

Help re-activating Vista
If I was to reformat, which I will probably have to, will I be able to reactivate Vista, or will I have to get a new product key? Thank you in advance for your responses. Maybe. If you have the full retail version, you will be able to install it on the new system but the automated activation will fail because your

Re-activating Vista
TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl Xref: TK2MSFTNGHUB02.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windows.server. general:33290 X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windows.server.general I downloaded the KMS for server 2003 to activate vista clients and setup/activated. I think I remember reading somewhere that this one can not activate server 2008

Activating Vista on a Newly Upgraded Computer?
Ronnie Vernon MVP r...@invalid.org microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Robert You have a lot of different issues with this When you bought the original PC with Vista I'm willing to buy my own copy of Vista, but will I be able to activate it without installing it? I don't want to wipe out my disk.

Activating Vista Home Premium
cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) cquirken...@nospam.mvps.org microsoft public windows vista general On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 18:03:32 -0700, "xfile" wrote: Alias wrote: Stephan Rose wrote: I concur what Stephan Rose said about "It does more damage[...]" Actually Alias, it is commonly called spamming and the only thing it

Activating Vista on a Newly Upgraded Computer?
Mick Murphy MickMur...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup Juan, you are completely incorrect!!!! He is virtually building a NEW computer, and HAS to reactivate. Most hardware changes, even minor ones, require reactivation. An OEM disk is tied to the computer that it was

Help re-activating Vista
dougt53 doug...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup "Dave" wrote: Try the activation again. When it fails, call the telephone number. Enter the bunch of numbers, and answer the robot. You should be able to get a new key. If not, stay on the line until a real person comes on.

Activating Vista
Still spouting the I hate Vista crap. Don't you bozo's ever get tired of your own voices and rants on one subject. No, I don't see Rose's post as "I hate Vista crap" at all; I think he's spot-on, both about the higher rate of activation issues in Vista, and the reluctance of pro-IT (and consumers) to adopt Vista.

Activating Vista on a Newly Upgraded Computer?
If i activate a Windows Vista Enterprise PC, then blow it away and go to activate it again, does that count as 2 licenses? Does it work on the pc's MAC address? And if some of my staff activate there own machines at home with my Vista enterprise OS license, how could i possibly know who has used all my licenses?

Problem Activating Vista Volume license copy
If this is the case then I suggest that you backup your data files and use the procedure in the post 'Activation error Home Premium UG over Win XP Prof', also in this newsgroup, to help you clean install. Dwarf "muteboy303" wrote: I recently upgraded from XP to Vista Ultimate and i am now promted after 28 days to

Activating Vista Home Premium
Alex T. Al...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows vista general I really have two questions. 1. I have a Sager NP8790 laptop that had a hard drive go bad. I'm installing new hard drives and re-installing Vista on the same laptop. Will Microsoft charge me to re-activate Vista if using on same computer

Help re-activating Vista
Bruce Chambers bchamb...@cable0ne.n3t microsoft public windows vista general algae wrote: I have just about finished setting up, tweaking, etc. a new Vista pc. This will also probably require re-activation, unless you have a Volume Licensed version of WinXP Pro installed. If it's been more than 120 days since

activating My Vista upgrade.
Robert Katz robtk...@gmail.com microsoft public windows vista installation_setup I bought a standard manufacturer's PC with Vista Ultimate. I activated Windows, installed lots of I'm willing to buy my own copy of Vista, but will I be able to activate it without installing it? I don't want to wipe out my disk.

Problem Activating Vista Volume license copy
I replaced the motherboard and processor, but kept the old hard disk drive with Vista already installed. It all runs fine, but Vista is now asking me to activate again, and when I try the product key that came with the software, it tells me that this code is already in use. Does anyone know how I can solve this