I have recently upgraded my hard drive and installed vista ultimate 64 bit on
it but it says my windows key is in use elsewhere? i have my old hdd here
which vista was on and it has been formatted. I have the real oem version of
windows ultimate

Howdy, Folks,
When putting a new motherboard in a system, in previous versions of Windows
it was possible to do a repair installation by booting from the CD.  This
prevented losing system settings and having to reinstall applications.  See:

I just recieved my Vista Express upgrade and i followed all instructions but
when while its installing it stops at 20% when its gathering files...please
help

Hmmm...OK, my desktop will not read the install disk; after about 5 min of
the drive trying to read it it just reads as  "DVD-ROM", and cannot open.
When you check the properties is says that there are 0 bytes used and 0 bytes
free. (It is a 32-bit running system, x86 processor ...

Did the upgrade from XP PRO to Ultimate using a full retail and it appears
that my old Windows is in a folder titled: $WINDOWS.~Q, there is no Windows
old folder anywhere. There is also a folder $INPLACE.~TR and one titled
$Recycle.Bin . Is it safe to delete all three of these? ...

I have been trying to install the 64 bit version of Vista Ultimate
on my system.  It is an ECS NForce4M-A motherboard with an Athlon 64
X2 4200 processor, 1 GB RAM, A GEForce 7300 GS GPU with 512 MB RAM
Video card and a couple of WD SATA HDs.  I ran the MS Advisor

Please help..
There are two primary partitions. On the first is Windows XP. On the second
is Windows Vista. To start an operating system, i just made its partition
active.

I have been having problems with computer not going to sleep, tried many
things but in end gave up. Yesterday there was a very large number of
downloads and now computer goes to sleep with no problems. Anyone know if
they have now rectifieed problem.

1.) I can't tell if I have 32-bit or 64-bit
    Dell Inspiron9400
    Intel(R) Core(TM)2CPU
    T7400 @2.16GHz

I can not change desktop shortcut icons.
I need help.

My wife bought me a copy of the Vista Home Premium Upgrade in March and all
went well until last week when I had a software issue with another programme
which caused me to have to re-install Vista.  All went well but yesterday I
got a message that "if I did not validate my copy ...

I have a xp system but recently installed a oem version of vista home
premium. now i need to wipe my pc due to some problems. Could some one tell
me if i will have to call support to re-activate it. and how to wipe my pc
again pls.

I have been playing with a variety of installation scenarios, one thing I
haven't figured out is a vista repair.  Is it possible to repair vista from
the os disc similar to xp home/pro?

My situation is that i currently have Vista Business that was provided to me
for free through school by the MSDNAA.  I would prefer to have Ultimate, and
recently got a new processor, alot more 4gb of ram etc, and Vista Business
wont address all my ram and such.  It only shows ...

I bought a lap-top with Vista Ult 64-BIT pre-installed only to find
Australia's major ISP Telstra does not support 64-BIT for internet access.
The lap-top vendor has supplied a separate copy of Vista Ultimate 32-BIT for
me to install. The lap-top has 2 separate drives. Can I run ...