Windows Vista Licensing Activation

Posted: 03-09-2007, 10:03 PM

TIChuck

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I recently purchased Vista Ultimate and chose to dual boot with XP and Vista,
thus activating the Vista license.
I then un-installed Vista and chose to load it as virtual machine (VMWare)
on my XP box.
To no one's surprise (probably), I am getting a message that the software
has already been acivated.
What do I need to do in order to resolve this issue ?

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BobS

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Re: Windows Vista Licensing Activation

Posted: 03-09-2007, 11:40 PM

Just use the telephone activation. You can use Ultimate in a virtual
environment according to the EULA so there should be no problem with that
configuration.

Bob S.

"TIChuck" <TIChuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently purchased Vista Ultimate and chose to dual boot with XP and
>Vista,
> thus activating the Vista license.
> I then un-installed Vista and chose to load it as virtual machine (VMWare)
> on my XP box.
> To no one's surprise (probably), I am getting a message that the software
> has already been acivated.
> What do I need to do in order to resolve this issue ?

TIChuck

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Re: Windows Vista Licensing Activation

Posted: 03-11-2007, 08:13 AM

Thanks Bob.....i'll give it a shot.....and I'll read the EULA...for the first
time....:>)

"BobS" wrote:

> Just use the telephone activation. You can use Ultimate in a virtual
> environment according to the EULA so there should be no problem with that
> configuration.
>
> Bob S.
>
>
> "TIChuck" <TIChuck@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4AEC3D8F-6EE3-46A7-BE08-CA28B6FDB164@microsoft.com...
> >I recently purchased Vista Ultimate and chose to dual boot with XP and
> >Vista,
> > thus activating the Vista license.
> > I then un-installed Vista and chose to load it as virtual machine (VMWare)
> > on my XP box.
> > To no one's surprise (probably), I am getting a message that the software
> > has already been acivated.
> > What do I need to do in order to resolve this issue ?
>
>
>

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