Activate Vista (Vista Ultimate)

[braddy60]

Hi

My brother and I have new laptops, he has windows vista Home Premium and I have Ultimate, he was asked to activate the product but I have not, is there an explanation for this?

Regards

Braddy

[TonyE]

There are 3 basic types of activation for Vista:
Retail - usually when you buy Vista and install it yourself
OEM - usually installed by the computer manufacturer
Volume - mainly applies to businesses, not home users.

OEM and volume licences are normally pre-activated so you only need to manually activate retail copies of Vista. It appears that your product was pre-activated but your brothers was not. Another possibility is a known bug with activation, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931573

[braddy60]

Hi Tony

Thanks for the info, I guess you are correct mine must have been preactivated.

Regards

Braddy

[LegareColeman]

Bugs in the Registration/Activation code?????? Really gives you confidence that the code is not going to cut off your use of your system doesn't it! <img src=/S/nope.gif border=0 alt=nope width=15 height=15>

[braddy60]

Hi Legare

Yeah it's scary isn't it. <img src=/S/scream.gif border=0 alt=scream width=15 height=15>

Braddy