need vista key help

Hi please help i just recently got windows vista home premium but it say i need to activate my product key ive been trying it alot but it says its in use can you please help i need a new product key for windows vista home premium.please give a code i need help thanks for reading

 

Where did you purchase it from? If it was brand new in the box for the upgrade it should not be telling you that the key is in use and we can't give out keys as they is pirating.

 

I got it with the box it was an upgrade disc i upgraded from home basic to home premium i really need a code please.

 

If it was an upgrade disk shouldn't there be a code for when you upgraded? Some kind of record showing that you purchased it, you can always contact MS and see what they can do for you.

Thing is we can't give out codes here (priacy).

 

activating your windows key is the authorization process to make sure your windows key isn't pirated... you can try activating over the phone and explain your situation. i needed to do that when i reinstalled vista on my laptop for whatever reason... now i've upgraded back to XP Pro.

 

Save yourself a step and go ahead and reinstall XP, your going to do it eventually anyway, I promise.

 

Why so certain?

 

cause you'll like vista for like 3 or 4 months. then you'll find out how crappy it is and switch back to XP... i laughed when a friend of mine told me that too, look at me now...

 

I agree there are problems with the compatibility issues, but overall it doesn't seem that bad.

What all problems did you experience to give it the name of a crappy OS?

I do like XP better, easier to get around and use

 

program incompatability
hardware incompatability (with vista sp1 even though it worked before)
high RAM usage, nearly 1gb when idle compared to 500mb on XP with the same setup
high Video RAM usage when idle, 158MB on Vista to 10MB on xp
it takes around 8gb to install vista compared to the 1.5 of xp
vista starts taking up your harddrive and you need to constantly defrag it to get it back, (i kept only having 9gb free, then after defrag i'd have 16gb)
UAC (user account controls)
windows defender
and the list will go on...

 

edited by ddp

 

No problem; if you also have the power (corporate) to censor O'Reilly Press, please PM me - I want to invest in your business interests.

O'Reilly is FAR from an 'underground' publisher.

@OP: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528355/
See 'Big Book of Windows Hacks';
By Preston Gralla
First Edition October 2007
Pages: 652
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52835-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596528355

p. 25; hack #04




@ddp: maybe we can un-delete the published info, to keep members and guests from goin' off-site???

 

What causes the mass taking up space in the hardrive and the decreaase in ram?

 

cause vista is a Bloatware OS... It needs alot of RAM and resources to make it look so shiny and pretty, it runs at about 20% slower than XP from my own expirences... If you like it, then stick with it. But I'm sticking with XP til they work out all the bugs in Vista...

 

Saw your response to the def of bloatware.
Not satisfied at all were you

 

Nope, then I discovered the whole thing with it "using" up my hard drive. The whole 9gb free then after defragging I had 15gb part...
Oh and the included defragging utility SUCKS its an absolutely horrendous(sp) device. There are many free utilities that do the same...

 

Any recommandations for freeware that will do the defrag instead of the one they included?

I agree as the one with the os is so slow and it leaves you with no idea with where the progress is.