I own a copy of Vista Ultimate and bought an additional license of Vista Home
Premium for use on another computer.  I did this through Microsoft over the
internet.  The hard drive in the Vista HP machine died, but I cant find the
license code to reinstall.  

Had a nasty HDD failure last week and so have had to buy a new computer, and
have upgraded it to Vista from the CD I bought a few months ago - but I had
already installed the CD on my previous PC, and now it is telling me that the
Product key typed is already in use.

i recently bought a second 500GB hard dirve and upon installing it vista
would not boot. i got system disk error and it tried to boot to cd-rom
and when it did not find the system disk it asked for it. once i
installed that it started the install process for vista. why did this

My uncles business has an old machine running XP Pro SP2 OEM that simply
cannot handle old software anymore, so I'll be building him a new modern
machine.
The problem is the software he needs to run doesn't run on Vista, it's a

I'm having a problem when trying to install Vista x64.  I set the boot
order right so that it reads off the DVD drive.  I hit spacebar to begin
running OS off of the DVD drive, and it proceeds to do so.
It gets through the "Loading Windows Files" white on black bar, and the

I'm using Windows XP SP2 I did try to install Windows Vista Business
but I keep recieving ** STOP: 0x0000005C (0x0000010B, 0x00000001,
0x00000000, 0x00000000) on boot up in windows vista.
I'm using CPU:Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20GHz  Memory:2.00 GB

Hi, I'm trying to install Windows Vista x64 Business, but when the the
install gets to the completing installation part it gives me a blue
screen and then the computer restarts less than a second later.
The specs on my computer are:

my message is I would like to download my microsoft free for now, and i
woulld like to know if i can still use this product with mcafee security on
my pc
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i have done the disc clean up and defragmented files, but still my computer
holds way to much memory than my computer can handle, making everything slow,
including the internet, please help?

XP stores user data in c:\Documents & Settings\me and uses the nomenclature
"My" Documents, "My" This, and "My" that..   Vista has a more sensible
structure - storing user data in c:\Users and Music in "Music" etc..  No
more "My" this and that.  I'm glad to get away from that ...

I run vbscripts under Vista PE.
One of  my scripts needs an additional DLL to run.
Under WinPE "regsvr32 xyz.dll" doesn't work.
How can I register the DLL under WinPE?

Hi all, I have searched the forums but haven't come accross my
particular problem yet.  On a clean install of Vista x64 Home Premium,
it goes through all the way to "completing Installation" reboots, goes
to "loading for the first time" and then blue screens at the same spot

Howdy, I have sbcglobal newsgroups running perfectly fine on my notebook
with xp. It runs wirelessly through the same ATT DSL router that I
connected my new Vista machine to.
When I typed exactly the same NEWSGROUP settings  on my new Vista

can not install lexmark P3150 (3100) series.  anybody have suggestions. thanks

I have Windows Vista Premium loaded to my PC. The language is German. I want
it to configure in English. I tried with the Recovery Disc, but I can change
the Region & keyboard to English, but not the Language. Can you suggest, How
I can select the English- Language.