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Vista Upgrade COA number already in use????

Posted: 01-03-2008, 11:45 PM
Dale
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I bought a Vista "ready" laptop last year (2006) and sent in all the
paperwork for the free upgrade to Vista. I installed it early in 07, found
out how crappy it ran, and reinstalled XP. Now that there are 40 million
updates for Vista, I decieded to reinstall it and it seems to be working much
better after all the updates. However, today, a window popped up and said
"activate windows now or it woll stop working in 22 days". When I tried to
activate, it told me my product key was already in use. Is this because I
installed it once already? How do I orrect this? I tried to go to
Microsoft.com, but you have to have an 8 year college degree to use their
site. Can anyone help? Thanks -Dale
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Dustin Harper
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Re: Vista Upgrade COA number already in use????
Posted: 01-04-2008, 12:24 AM
Yes, it is because you installed it already. You can choose Activate by
Phone, give Microsoft a call, and they will get you activated with no
problems in about 5 minutes.

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"Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a Vista "ready" laptop last year (2006) and sent in all the
> paperwork for the free upgrade to Vista. I installed it early in 07, found
> out how crappy it ran, and reinstalled XP. Now that there are 40 million
> updates for Vista, I decieded to reinstall it and it seems to be working
> much
> better after all the updates. However, today, a window popped up and said
> "activate windows now or it woll stop working in 22 days". When I tried to
> activate, it told me my product key was already in use. Is this because I
> installed it once already? How do I orrect this? I tried to go to
> Microsoft.com, but you have to have an 8 year college degree to use their
> site. Can anyone help? Thanks -Dale
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Bruce Chambers
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Re: Vista Upgrade COA number already in use????
Posted: 01-04-2008, 02:21 AM
Dale wrote:
> I bought a Vista "ready" laptop last year (2006) and sent in all the
> paperwork for the free upgrade to Vista. I installed it early in 07, found
> out how crappy it ran, and reinstalled XP. Now that there are 40 million
> updates for Vista, I decieded to reinstall it and it seems to be working much
> better after all the updates. However, today, a window popped up and said
> "activate windows now or it woll stop working in 22 days". When I tried to
> activate, it told me my product key was already in use. Is this because I
> installed it once already?

Yes.
> How do I orrect this?

Use telephone activation.




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