I have a Hp pavilion desktop with Vista Home Premium 64 bit and i want to do a clean with a retail vista same version . My question is : OEM act key (sticker in the side plate) will be activate the retail windows ?? Thanks and sorry for my english
I'm sure it'll activate yours because I own a Vista Ultimate 32-bit and I've used the serial key many times.
I've used the same key for many PCs and it worked, not sure why but maybe because mine is OEM version.
oem keys are not transferable and can only be used on one machine they may have activated but the minute you do a genuine check machines will get blasklisted.
Why do you want to install retail absolutely no benefit. Or just make Dell OEM SLP dvd out of your retail dvd all information available in stickies then it will preactivate.
I had a Vista hp Toshiba laptop and a Toshiba with Vista hb, reinstalled hp on both and activated over the phone with the key on the sticker of the hp machine.
Certificate Of Authentication. Basic a regular OEM key stickied under the notebook or perhaps on the right side of a computers.
because i am confused , oemactkey is oem coa key right ? and finally oemact activate retail vista right ? Thanks