i recently purchased Vista home premium and activaed it and all was good
until i installed SP1 for vista. now it's saying my activation coed is
allready in and i need to pruchase a newone.

Hello,

try re-activating by phone. It shouldn't take longer than five minutes and
is quite easy.
Maybe SP1 has wrongly detected a driver as new hardware or something.
Reactivate and it should be OK again.
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"Jamie C" <Jamie (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> i recently purchased Vista home premium and activaed it and all was good
> until i installed SP1 for vista. now it's saying my activation coed is
> allready in and i need to pruchase a newone.

You are prompted to activate Windows Vista after you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947519

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"Jamie C" <Jamie (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:EDDBD353-6FFD-4936-A116-(E-Mail Removed)...
i recently purchased Vista home premium and activaed it and all was good
until i installed SP1 for vista. now it's saying my activation coed is
allready in and i need to pruchase a newone.

Hello Jamie,
Did you get a ballon popup and if so what was on that message? The exact
text string if possible.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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