Reinstall OEM ?

[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:28:20 +1200, "Peter in New Zealand"

Just popping back into this thread with a curious observation. Was using the
computer earlier today with Home Prem OEM on it and when it resumed from
hibernation a little balloon politely informed me that activation had
completed satisfactorily, and thank you very much. Ahem! It's been activated
a few weeks now. So did it decide to de-activate for lunch and then
reactivate, just to play a joke on me? Or does Vista periodically recheck
its activation status and confirm if it's still OK?

That's a new twist ...

By default, Vista activates automatically (though not silently, i.e.
it is supposed to ask for your permission) when it is freshly
installed, if it can "see" the Internet.

Did you see a dialog asking permission to activate?

If not, was the wording "...activate" or "...validate"? The latter
term is related to WGA, which is a different subsystem.

Whatever the reason nothing's changed on the machine. Same hardware, and
everything's working just fine as usual. But it did give me a bit of a
start, expecially after reading some of the posts to the Vista groups about
activation issues.

Quite - I've "taken this to Microsoft" as per this page...

http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C7DAB1E724AB8C23!190.entry?_c=BlogPart

....as one of 35+ "wishes" for Vista, as per here:

http://cquirke.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!C7DAB1E724AB8C23!336.entry

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[thsuper1]

Help, I just want my vista back, my hard drive crashed, then my video card. Need to reinstall, but only have a suse platform installed right now. will have new HD for vista. My oem disc is for system builders, and I don't have the boot loader disc to use. what do I do?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326246/en-gb

 

[John D. Sheridan]

Makes one wish that newsgroups had "Stickys" like online forums do.

John

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Help, I just want my vista back, my hard drive crashed, then my video
card. Need to reinstall, but only have a suse platform installed right
now. will have new HD for vista. My oem disc is for system builders, and
I don't have the boot loader disc to use. what do I do?

What's a boot loader disk?

You can reinstall Vista from an OEM system builder disk. It is just a plain
old Vista dvd.