PLEASE HELP WITH WINDOWS VISTA!

[stevennodalo]

On January 8, 2007 I ordered a laptop that had XP Media Center but was Vista upgradable and said that I can get a free Vista upgrade. In February, after Vista came out, I ordered another laptop with Vista Home Premium on it. I talked to a sales representative from HP and he said I can use the Vista cd from the laptop i ordered in Feb, onto the laptop I ordered in January. Well, unfortunately, he was wrong. I installed it and it worked for about a month and now it wont let me access anything unless I type in a new product key. I can get a free Vista upgrade from windows, but will a Vista upgrade key work? Do i have to buy the Vista Home Premium in order to activate my laptop? I have been unable to use my laptop since 3 weeks ago and everyday i contact HP AND MICROSOFT about this and all of the operators (whom can barely speak english) have trouble understanding me and direct me somewhere else until it has been hours and hours of waiting and redirecting and they finally tell me that they can't help me. Please, can someone help me out?

[mwa103]

This is an article which talks about delaying Vista activation for up to a year, but not sure if it will work since yours has already locked you out. If it does work, it will give you time to get the upgrade version coming. That's the only way I see to get it working is to reinstall XP then install the Vista upgrade (not sure if you can do a Vista upgrade over Vista, you may try that first).

-Mike

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013258

[Johnathan]

wat abput finding a serial somewhere? www.serialbay.com o yea and if im to late sorry but u should really try that if u wanna live on the edge lol

[nighthawk]

Finding a serial on the web just like that is a little bit illegal, I don't think they allow things like that on this forum.

[Johnathan]

hmmmmm ok but dats how i get all my stuff well apart from windows it cam preinstalled

[nighthawk]

So do I, but using other people's serial numbers is like stealing. The biggest problem with this is that hosting companies see this as criminal activities and don't allow websites hosted on their server to have any warez content, so admins and moderators have to prevent any such content.

btw, these posts might be deleted.