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| Thread ID: 73447 | 2006-10-19 04:44:00 | Ouch: Only one reinstall for Vista per PC. | Antmannz (6583) | Press F1 |
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| 492669 | 2006-10-19 23:14:00 | No he is not. If I buy Vista and then upgrade the MB and reinstall Vista I can only reinstall it once after that so they can get stuffed. Then I am misinterpreting the article completely? In my understanding, if you get a new motherboard, then you can reinstall Vista onto that new motherboard, and that reinstall onto the new motherboard can be for as many re-loads as you like, on that second motherboard. But you cannot then change the motherboard again, you get one "transfer" to a new hardware set only. On the first or second set of hardware, the reinstalls are unrestricted, what is restricted is transferring the OS to anything beyond that, i.e. a third motherboard would require a new copy? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 492670 | 2006-10-19 23:47:00 | I really hope they have a Corporate version if I have to deal with Vista at work... I don't know how accurate this is, but I heard that the volume licence version will now need to be activated. However, instead of activating against Microsoft's server, your company sets up their own. This is supposedly going to reduce the piracy of volume licence versions of Vista, although I can see pirates just copying the activation server software too :rolleyes: I also don't know how that will work when you try to take the software home: My MSDN licence at work allows me to take XP home and use it there, but how would I activate Vista at home without the corporate activation server? |
Nermal (7077) | ||
| 492671 | 2006-10-20 00:18:00 | But you cannot then change the motherboard again, you get one "transfer" to a new hardware set only. On the first or second set of hardware, the reinstalls are unrestricted, what is restricted is transferring the OS to anything beyond that, i.e. a third motherboard would require a new copy? What happens about taking images of your drives --- ie I use Acronis True Image. People like me who do this are copying the o/s etc, etc, onto another drive in case you need to put it back again, or move it. Misty :confused: |
Misty (368) | ||
| 492672 | 2006-10-20 00:35:00 | Good point Misty. I wonder how GHOST will react? After all it was designed to dump your whole OS and programmes onto a new HDD. I know people that use it all the time to tidy up their machines. :confused: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 492673 | 2006-10-20 01:09:00 | Imaging will still work, but as with XP if you were to reimage to a new PC, it would throw a fit and see all the wrong hardware and demand activation, after a reinstall to fix the drivers. Reimaging back to the same PC would be fine, however as above, my take on it is that within the limits of the "original PC +1 replacement one", reinstallation will be permitted as often as needed. It means a full retail version is really just "OEM+1" |
godfather (25) | ||
| 492674 | 2006-10-20 01:43:00 | Imaging will still work, but as with XP if you were to reimage to a new PC, it would throw a fit and see all the wrong hardware and demand activation, after a reinstall to fix the drivers. Reimaging back to the same PC would be fine, however as above, my take on it is that within the limits of the "original PC +1 replacement one", reinstallation will be permitted as often as needed. It means a full retail version is really just "OEM+1" Thanks g/f - that's a relief. However I cannot see myself jumping in to get Vista for quite a while after it has been released anyway. Misty ;) |
Misty (368) | ||
| 492675 | 2006-10-20 20:09:00 | I used to be a die hard W98 user, until I got XP on new computer a few months ago. Its a whole new world with no more slow downs and lock ups. My view now is you would have to be a tosser to use software 8 yrs old. As far as getting only 1 reinstall with Vista is, get over it. It problay cost as much as a small countries gdp to develop it. They will need to sell heaps of the software to pay the development costs back. The last thing they need are dip****s who run rabbit versions of their OS on their pcs and laptops. tedheath |
tedheath (537) | ||
| 492676 | 2006-10-21 02:49:00 | My view now is you would have to be a tosser to use software 8 yrs old. As far as getting only 1 reinstall with Vista is, get over it. It problay cost as much as a small countries gdp to develop it. They will need to sell heaps of the software to pay the development costs back. The last thing they need are dip****s who run rabbit versions of their OS on their pcs and laptops. tedheath Who cares what you think. Yes, people with money can rush out and buy the latest operating systems but there are people that cannot afford to and their 8 year old operating systems run just fine. |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 492677 | 2006-10-21 03:01:00 | In 98 every program has full access to all memory . Oh no :eek: Why did Microsoft ever release such a program, shame on them . Only Sony do rootkits :D I take reasonable steps with security . You can only do so much . I know a number of people who still use ME . THEY are happy with it even though it gets a lot of stick from so called techo's who say to upgrade to XP . |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 492678 | 2006-10-22 04:09:00 | Damn Microsoft trying to take over the world once again. :mad: Since its security is so tight I wonder how many of my old system servicing softwares actually works on it i.e. System Mechanic, CCleaner, etc. | PedalSlammer (8511) | ||
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