Windows Vista Vista Ultimate OEM Activation

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Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?

What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
went back to XP.

About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
drive.

I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
surpise online activation went smoothly.

Bill
 
Re: Vista Ultimate OEM Activation

Bill Davis Jr wrote:
> Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?
>
> What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
> Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
> went back to XP.
>
> About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
> another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
> computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
> the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
> actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
> dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
> drive.
>
> I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
> surpise online activation went smoothly.
>
> Bill

The activation data is cleared every 120 days. This is not done to
accommodate users but for MS to save money.

Alias
 
Re: Vista Ultimate OEM Activation

On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:02:29 +0200, Alias <iamalias@REMOVEgmail.com>
wrote:

>Bill Davis Jr wrote:
>> Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?
>>
>> What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
>> Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
>> went back to XP.
>>
>> About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
>> another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
>> computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
>> the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
>> actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
>> dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
>> drive.
>>
>> I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
>> surpise online activation went smoothly.
>>
>> Bill
>
>The activation data is cleared every 120 days. This is not done to
>accommodate users but for MS to save money.
>
>Alias

Cool. Just like how XP was.
 
Re: Vista Ultimate OEM Activation

Bill Davis Jr wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 17:02:29 +0200, Alias <iamalias@REMOVEgmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Bill Davis Jr wrote:
>>> Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?
>>>
>>> What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
>>> Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
>>> went back to XP.
>>>
>>> About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
>>> another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
>>> computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
>>> the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
>>> actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
>>> dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
>>> drive.
>>>
>>> I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
>>> surpise online activation went smoothly.
>>>
>>> Bill
>> The activation data is cleared every 120 days. This is not done to
>> accommodate users but for MS to save money.
>>
>> Alias
>
> Cool. Just like how XP was.

And still is :-)

Alias
 
Re: Vista Ultimate OEM Activation


Bill Davis Jr;846916 Wrote:
> Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?
>
> What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
> Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
> went back to XP.
>
> About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
> another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
> computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
> the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
> actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
> dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
> drive.
>
> I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
> surpise online activation went smoothly.
>
> Bill
hi bill,
as far as I am aware the change of one major component would not
normally cause any problems with activation, most occur when updating a
motherboard which of course is not one component these days but a set of
them in a single physical package.


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understand.,- frank herbert
 
Re: Vista Ultimate OEM Activation

Bill Davis Jr wrote:
> Did they change the policy for re-activation of Vista Ultimate OEM?
>

Not that I'm aware of.


> What I mean is last year I built myself a new computer and installed
> Vista Ultimate OEM. I had some issues that I could not resolve so I
> went back to XP.
>
> About 2 months ago I lost main hard drives (I had a Raid 0 setup) and
> another drive due to a storm. They were the only hard drives in the
> computer. I upgrade to a newer drive, this time only a single drive in
> the system. I re-installed Vista again to play around wth it. I am
> actually happy with this install of Vista. My devices are working. I
> dont notice any difference between the Raid setup and the single
> drive.
>
> I thought I was going to have to call to get Vista re-activated. To my
> surpise online activation went smoothly.
>


And that's the way I'd have expected it to work, under the
circumstances you describe.


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