Re: Additional Windows Vista License

If you installed Vista from a CD that shipped with your laptop in a VM, you will not be able to activate it period, your license doesn't allow it to be installed in a VM, only on the computer it shipped with.

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"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uulbOsL2JHA.3780@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ignorance, basically. I had a third party install the VMware on my Dell desktop (64-bit), and I needed a 32-bit environment to run many of the dBase programs that I wrote in an earlier century. I gave the third party a copy of the unopened 32-bit Vista CD package that had come with my laptop some months ago, forgetting totally about activation (Dell had already activated it on the laptop, I am presuming).

Gordon

"Peter Foldes" <okf22@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#7KQ$AL2JHA.3476@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Gordon

do I run the risk of a lock-up

More of a lock-out than a lock-up. Why did you not activate Gordon. Just curious

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"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e0Mz2kJ2JHA.5244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sir Michael --

I am traveling at present. If I don't return to home base until after the activation period has expired, do I run the risk of a lock-up, or simply repeated warnings from MSFT?

Thanks for the prompt response.

GB



"Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:#TKFpgJ2JHA.4880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"Gordon Biggar" <colonel_biggs@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OexTvTJ2JHA.1644@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I recently installed VMware on my Vista 64-bit desktop. I used the Vista 32-bit software that I have on my laptop to set up a guest system. I believe that I now need to activate this latter system by purchasing a new license.

When I go the Computer\Properties route to activate the system and to purchase a new license, I keep getting the message "Unable to process your order at this time. Please try again later." (I am now several days later...)

Is there another route I should use to activate my software before my time expires (and my computer self destructs)?

Thanks for any assistance in this effort.

Gordon Biggar


The cost of a Microsoft license is not so much in the CD/DVD as the keycode which accompanies it. Buy yourself a new copy..


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