Does Vista only allow 1 licence on 1 machine?

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My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How do i
transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work. How many
computer does 1 home premium licence will support.
 
HapZungLam said:
My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How do i
transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work. How many
computer does 1 home premium licence will support.
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One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
years.

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Richard Urban said:
One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
years.

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What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?
 
HapZungLam said:
What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?
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If you have purchased a retail copy of Vista - nothing. You can upgrade your
computer as you see fit, as long as you only have the operating system on
one computer at a time.


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Quote from George Ankner:
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HapZungLam said:
My concern is that if 1 day that i have to ugrade my computer. How
do i
transfer licnece to my new computer and such. How does it work.
How many
computer does 1 home premium licence will support.
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The retail license permits you to install the copy on one device for
each license you buy

From the EULA

<------------------->
2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device (physical hardware
system). That device is the "licensed device." A hardware partition
or blade is considered to be a separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software
on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two
processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the
Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not
use the software on any other device.
<-------------------->

As regards moving your copy frm one machine to another

For retail licenses of Windows Vista the following applies from the
End User License Agreement

<-------------------------->
15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall
the software and install it on another device for your use. You may
not do so to share this license between devices.
<-------------------------->


So yes you may uninstall the software from one machine and move it to
another. There is no restriction on this.
 
Partially, it depends on what kind of license you have. Retail now seems to
allow unlimited internal transfers and one external transfer.
OEM cannot be transferred and it is generally considered by Microsoft that a
new motherboard constitiutes a transfer for this purpose unless it is due to
a defective mobo.
Other licenses have other restrictions.
 
Mike Brannigan said:
The retail license permits you to install the copy on one device for
each license you buy

From the EULA

<------------------->
2. INSTALLATION AND USE RIGHTS. Before you use the software under a
license, you must assign that license to one device (physical hardware
system). That device is the "licensed device." A hardware partition
or blade is considered to be a separate device.
a. Licensed Device. You may install one copy of the software
on the licensed device. You may use the software on up to two
processors on that device at one time. Except as provided in the
Storage and Network Use (Ultimate edition) sections below, you may not
use the software on any other device.
<-------------------->

As regards moving your copy frm one machine to another

For retail licenses of Windows Vista the following applies from the
End User License Agreement

<-------------------------->
15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.
a. Software Other than Windows Anytime Upgrade. You may uninstall
the software and install it on another device for your use. You may
not do so to share this license between devices.
<-------------------------->


So yes you may uninstall the software from one machine and move it to
another. There is no restriction on this.
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Does uninstall mean include format or repartition my harddrive? I am afriad
that It requres me to register "online" like Genisus that once i varifyed on
the paticular computer and it's set. Can't do anything about it. Or i may
have to get online and do some inconvient things to tell microsoft that i've
to transfer my licnece.

Since from what i know, one of my friend asked me to help him reload windows
on one of his computer. However when i try to varify its windows, i got
denied since it says the copy of windows had already varify on other
machine.... something like that.
 
John Barnes said:
Partially, it depends on what kind of license you have. Retail now seems to
allow unlimited internal transfers and one external transfer.
OEM cannot be transferred and it is generally considered by Microsoft that a
new motherboard constitiutes a transfer for this purpose unless it is due to
a defective mobo.
Other licenses have other restrictions.
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Yes, i m planning to get a retail from stores
 
HapZungLam said:
Does uninstall mean include format or repartition my harddrive? I
am afriad
that It requres me to register "online" like Genisus that once i
varifyed on
the paticular computer and it's set. Can't do anything about it.
Or i may
have to get online and do some inconvient things to tell microsoft
that i've
to transfer my licnece.

Since from what i know, one of my friend asked me to help him reload
windows
on one of his computer. However when i try to varify its windows, i
got
denied since it says the copy of windows had already varify on other
machine.... something like that.
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Uninstall means that you remove the software from the hardrive by
whatever means you wish - this can be a format or just deleing all the
files from another running operating system.
As regards activating - which is what you are talking about - you will
have to activate your retail copy on the machine just as you do with
Windows XP today and if you substantially change the hardware of that
machine or move your install to another machine you will have to
reactivate. This can be either over the internet or via telephone.
There is no real change from what you have toady with Windows XP in
its simplest terms.
 
Jon said:
True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.
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But he wrote 'Home Premium' - that's definitely not a licence for, e.
g., server + 5 clients;-)

Roy
 
Jon Davis said:
True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.

Jon
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Please read. Whether it is OEM or retail, Home Premium is one license per
computer.

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Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
Ok, thats not hard to understand (and answers the question I was searching
for (thanks)) but, if I rip the hard drive out of the current machine and
physically install it into another PC (new M/B, processor, ram, peripherals
etc) then will the original Install of Vista accept this? I remember reading
something about Vista not liking significant changes to the machine setup?

PJ
 
PJ said:
Ok, thats not hard to understand (and answers the question I was searching
for (thanks)) but, if I rip the hard drive out of the current machine and
physically install it into another PC (new M/B, processor, ram,
peripherals
etc) then will the original Install of Vista accept this? I remember
reading
something about Vista not liking significant changes to the machine setup?

PJ
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<chop>

From another thread "Motherboard upgrade advice" - but it relates your
situation i.e.a new mobo and CPU but same ol' harddrive with Vista on it:

*Technically* - and I'm not that technnical - whether you will need to
reinstall the OS depends on the chipset types etc. etc. You can try popping
in the harddrive with the OS on it and see if it successfully picks it all
up and runs A-OK. THere are things you can do beforehand to increase the
likelihood of success. You increase your chance of success by setting your
computer to more generic basic drivers before attempting the transfer. Have
a look:

[Swapping your board without so much as a reinstall - arstechnica]
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/77909774/m/1400925745

More reading:

[How to install a new motherboard without reinstalling Windows -
arstechnica]
http://arstechnica.com/journals/har...-new-motherboard-without-reinstalling-windows

I definitely would do a backup of data / documents / pictures / music and so
on. You might have a look at Windows Easy Transfer.

Most likely you will need to re-activate your copy. But you are completely
entitle to your copy (retail) so do not worry about that aspect.

Saucy
 
This is ambiguous wording. If a "device" is defined as a 'physical
hardware system' and a HDD partition is considered to be a "device",
that doesn't work because a partition is inherently non-tangible and
therefore is *NOT* a "device" which is defined in a physical sense.

Yet again Brannigan just confuses the issue.

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Question,

I used to put 2 partitions on my HD, 1 for my live system, a second for
testing drivers or software before messing up my live system. With windows
activation now, Will I still be able to use a test partition? This is on the
same hardware or device other than the different disk partition.

Especially with vista, I question anytime I get new updates, drivers or
software and do not want to go through reinstalling my system for a lousey
software problem. and no I don't trust uninstalling or restore points. I
still feel they corrupt the registry. So I trust using a test platform I
don't have to worry about.
 
liven4all said:
Question,

I used to put 2 partitions on my HD, 1 for my live system, a second for
testing drivers or software before messing up my live system. With windows
activation now, Will I still be able to use a test partition? This is on the
same hardware or device other than the different disk partition.

Especially with vista, I question anytime I get new updates, drivers or
software and do not want to go through reinstalling my system for a lousey
software problem. and no I don't trust uninstalling or restore points. I
still feel they corrupt the registry. So I trust using a test platform I
don't have to worry about.
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The vista license only allows for one installation on one device at a
time. Individual partitions are considered individual devices under the
provisions in the EULA. So legally you will not be able to use the same
license for both installs. You would require 2 licenses to do what you
want. One for the live install and another for your test one.
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