activation worry Installing and Upgrading Vista Discuss activation worry in the Windows Vista forums; i wish to perform a clean format and install on my computer. so far i believe i used the key twice, obviously the first time round for first install and ...

[realbrutal]

i wish to perform a clean format and install on my computer. so far i believe i used the key twice, obviously the first time round for first install and the second time was due to major hardware changes i.e motherboard and cpu (switched from amd to intel, hehe). im i allowed to perform a fresh install/format without the activation key getting in the way? many thanks in advance

regards, merwan

[crabby]

If you haven't updated any hardware it will activate fine!

If you have, then just call the microsoft activation line and they will activate it for you.


crabby

[realbrutal]

im going to do format/ install and hope it will be fine. thank you very much for this reply.

[lakeswimmer]

I updated my pc with vista recently and I don't have any problems upgrading it. If you still have any problems installing you can contact microsoft for that..