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January 2nd 13, 05:45 PM
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Using Vista Home Premium Upgrade to "upgrade" OEM version
Working on my friends PC. Hew laptop was dying, so I backed it up and restored
the disk into a desktop replacement. I have a copy of Vista Home premium which I would like to use to activate the OS in this new machine, so that the PC will lose nothing from the previous laptop operation. I got everything working fine after the transfer from the laptop. Now, I need to replace the activation code (and OS?) to make it legal. Can anyone suggest the best sequence to accomplish this? 
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January 3rd 13, 12:05 AM
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Using Vista Home Premium Upgrade to "upgrade" OEM version
"Bob F" wrote in message ...
Working on my friends PC. Hew laptop was dying, so I backed it up and restored the disk into a desktop replacement. I have a copy of Vista Home premium which I would like to use to activate the OS in this new machine, so that the PC will lose nothing from the previous laptop operation. I got everything working fine after the transfer from the laptop. Now, I need to replace the activation code (and OS?) to make it legal. Can anyone suggest the best sequence to accomplish this? If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do... Computer - System - Change Product Key (lower right corner). - Bill
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January 3rd 13, 01:00 AM
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Using Vista Home Premium Upgrade to "upgrade" OEM version
Bill Leary wrote:
"Bob F" wrote in message ... Working on my friends PC. Hew laptop was dying, so I backed it up and restored the disk into a desktop replacement. I have a copy of Vista Home premium which I would like to use to activate the OS in this new machine, so that the PC will lose nothing from the previous laptop operation. I got everything working fine after the transfer from the laptop. Now, I need to replace the activation code (and OS?) to make it legal. Can anyone suggest the best sequence to accomplish this? If you're trying to do what I think you're trying to do... Computer - System - Change Product Key (lower right corner). - Bill I worried that I'd have to actually load the Retail program, but was happily surprised that just changing the key did the job and activated OK. Thanks.
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January 15th 13, 03:06 AM
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Using Vista Home Premium Upgrade to "upgrade" OEM version
KEVIN JOHN PANZKE wrote:
REFORMAT YOUR COMPUTERS AND INSTALL OPEN SOURCE LINUX UBUNTU! JUST FYI! THREAD CLOSED! You're an IDIOT. Thread Closed!
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