Vista Lic

[John Perry]

My Ex-wife bought a system with Vista about a year ago. She loves it but
says that she is getting messages that says her license should be renewed?

So my question is, does the Vista license need to be renewed? Where can she
look for license expiration date.be found on the system?

John

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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My Ex-wife bought a system with Vista about a year ago. She loves it but
says that she is getting messages that says her license should be renewed?

So my question is, does the Vista license need to be renewed? Where can she
look for license expiration date.be found on the system?

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

My Ex-wife bought a system with Vista about a year ago. She loves it but
says that she is getting messages that says her license should be renewed?

So my question is, does the Vista license need to be renewed?

No. If she's getting a message that her license should be renewed,
it's coming from a product other than Vista.

 

[John Perry]

Thank you for a very quick answer.

John

No. If she's getting a message that her license should be renewed,
it's coming from a product other than Vista.

 

[Joseph Meehan]

My guess is the message is coming from a trial version of an application
program like MS Office (things like Word and Excel) or from some other
program.

 

[Earle Horton]

Vista licenses do not need to be "renewed". Afaik, it is a perpetual
license unless you have a trial version. If you have an OEM version of
Vista, likely if it came with the desktop, you may need at some point to
enter the Product Key from the Certificate of Authenticity sticker on the
computer or the materials that came with it.

Earle

 

[DDW]

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DDW

 

[Ian D]

My Ex-wife bought a system with Vista about a year ago. She loves it but
says that she is getting messages that says her license should be renewed?

So my question is, does the Vista license need to be renewed? Where can
she look for license expiration date.be found on the system?

John

Since it's a year later it's most likely an anti-virus, or internet
security program license that has to be renewed. The AV
program itself should have this info. If this is the case,
rather than renewing the license, you would be better off
bying a new retail package on sale. That way you get
the latest version of the software, save money, and have
an original bootable emergency disk.

 

[Andrew Murray]

My Ex-wife bought a system with Vista about a year ago. She loves it but
says that she is getting messages that says her license should be renewed?

So my question is, does the Vista license need to be renewed? Where can
she look for license expiration date.be found on the system?

John

Maybe it means Live OneCare licence (a Microsoft product - Firewall,
anti-spyware, anti-virus product - you only get a 12 month subscription, as
is typical of those sorts of products (e.g. Norton, McAfee etc require a
licence renewal/subscription for continuing updates)).

Maybe it means she needs to activate Vista, but I doubt it, that's the first
thing that would have been done - or within the first 30 days of use.
Activation would need to be done also, if a major hardware change occurred
but as this is a relatively new computer I don't know this applies.