How many PCs per one copy of Vista?

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I saw a posting yesterday that had something like 10 different things that
Vista records upon activation. It described a voting process where each
item had 1 vote (except the network MAC address which counts as 3). I
believe on startup, it polls those same items and as long as there are 7
votes, no new activation would be triggered. Once you drop below 7, you
would need to reactivate. Whether that will require a phone call or not is
still unknown. I assume once it's reactivated, you would reset all of the
values.

So the key in some ways seems to be the MAC address. If you change this
for some reason, you are much more likely to trigger a reactivation.
Otherwise, you can change up to 5 of the single vote traits and still be
rolling.

Sorry I can't remember where I saw this but searching on voting and
activation may bring it up.
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Where you thinking of this article?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2087792,00.asp

It discusses XP's activation voting scheme. I have not to this point seen
anything definitive on Vista's, but I believe it has been changed. It is
not so heavily weighted to the NIC.
 
Yes, remove it. But no, it does not call home. But to be within the EULA
you need to remove it from the first PC before installing on the second.


You just reinstall it.


Then you get a new PC and install it on that.


If the PC is dead then the license is no longer usable on that PC and you
can transfer the license to a new PC.
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Ok that's perfectly fine then.

I was just worried it needed to go some special removal process first
which would be a bad thing. =)

Thanks!

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If it is OEM then a mobo change will likely mean you need to buy a new
license. If it is retail the issue is not needing a new license but merely
needing to reactivate.
 
You cannot use the same product key to have Vista installed in more than one
place at any one time.

Reread the article. Anyway, the one-transfer provision has been rescinded
by MS.

Read the EULA. It says you may install the software on one device. Further
it defines a device as a partition or blade (not a computer). It even
specifies that if you receive copies of the software for two different
platforms (x86 and x64 dvd's) you may only install one of them at any one
time.

You can switch platforms on the same machine but cannot have both installed
at the same time.
 
Yes - that's the article. And you're right, I thought it was talking about
Vista when it was in fact about XP.

Does anyone know if there's a published list like this for Vista or is that
still top-secret, only to be released in China at this time?
 
LaRoux said:
Yes - that's the article. And you're right, I thought it was talking about
Vista when it was in fact about XP.

Does anyone know if there's a published list like this for Vista or is
that still top-secret, only to be released in China at this time?
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I haven't seen one. I do know now, per a post by Colin, that it's heavily
weighted toward the boot drive.
 
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