Re: How To Fix Most Vista Problems & How To Install It Properly

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"Sorry won't work. Pre-installed Vista is OEM. A Retail CD/DVD WILL NOT WORK
with a OEM product key. Do you REALLY know what you are talking about?"

You are a nutcase!
You can buy OEM disks, you idiot!
How do you think we build Ststems! Do you think we buy retail disks all the
time.
Wake up, you stupid fool.

There are OEMs and OEM disks.
Dell, HP, etc are OEMs.

And what is on your bought OEM and retail disk is the same.
Will that sink in!!!

--
Mad Mike


"Gordon" wrote:

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3. OEM software is crap, pointless and uses memory and space and makes
the
OS unclean and unstable.

So how is MS Office 2007 OEM "crap and pointless"?


4. Always clean install, never Never NEVER upgrade from a previous OS.
This is the worst thing you can do. If you only own an upgrade copy
Simply
do a clean install (don't put in the licence) then do an upgrade install
once
the OS is installed and put in your licence. Takes more time to install
twice but it's worth it.

5. b) If you have bought a computer with Vista installed on it just find
someone with a retail (Not OEM) Vista DVD (remember every retail Vista DVD
is
the same and has all versions on it). Use the licence on the sticker of
your
computer to install it.

Sorry won't work. Pre-installed Vista is OEM. A Retail CD/DVD WILL NOT WORK
with a OEM product key. Do you REALLY know what you are talking about?



5. a) I recommend booting from the Vista CD and formatting the drives
(remember you have backed up to an external source). You can access the
Command Prompt from the Vista DVD to format hard drives.

6. Boot from the Vista DVD and then use the product key stuck on your
computer or where ever it may be to install a clean copy on a clean hard
drive. What you will have is Vista installed the way Microsoft intended
it
to be without any rubbish to disrupt its performance.

7. Install Service Pack 1 -then- Install Security Software -then- go
online
and Activate Windows, Update your security software and use Windows Update
to
update Microsoft products. Now copy your files back to your computer.

I don't think you can install SP1 on an un-activated installation....



Basically Vista works best if you install a clean retail copy on a clean
hard drive and then keep it and it's software up to date. Always start
with
a clean slate.

So don't winge about problems if you haven't installed from a clean slate.


Absolute rubbish.


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