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" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> 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.



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

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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!

Check out the Maximum PC website for some info.

http://maximumpc.com/

MS keeps changing the EULA.


"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> 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.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> "HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
>
>
> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
> years.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)

What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9FBE7DC2-87A0-4ACF-9AC7-BF580761D138@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> "HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> What happen if i upgrade my computer then? I"ve to buy another licence?



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.


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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!

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> 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.

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.
--

Mike Brannigan

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.

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> 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.

"Mike Brannigan" wrote:
> 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.
> --
>
> Mike Brannigan

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" wrote:

> 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.

Yes, i m planning to get a retail from stores

"HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C1605334-9573-4396-962C-731506E99D70@microsoft.com...
> "Mike Brannigan" wrote:
>> 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.
>> --
>>
>> Mike Brannigan
>
> 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.

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.

--

Mike Brannigan

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:uZmhB2YDHHA.348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
> years.

True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.

Jon

Jon Davis schrieb:
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
> news:uZmhB2YDHHA.348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.
>
> True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.

But he wrote 'Home Premium' - that's definitely not a licence for, e.
g., server + 5 clients;-)

Roy

"Jon Davis" <jon@REMOVE.ME.PLEASE.jondavis.net> wrote in message
news:eWj%23ekgDHHA.3444@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
> news:uZmhB2YDHHA.348@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> One license equals one computer. It hasn't changed for the past 15 - 20
>> years.
>
> True of OEM licenses. He didn't say his license was OEM.
>
> Jon
>
>



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

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

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



"Mike Brannigan" wrote:

> "HapZungLam" <HapZungLam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:857FEF46-FFA8-4B01-9FA3-82D1D6CDAD3A@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
> 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.
> --
>
> Mike Brannigan
>
>
>

Aside from the fact that this is a poor idea, neither XP nor Vista would
remain activated in a situation such as this.

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"PJ" <PJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FE9E0C9C-3171-4968-9850-DADBA7923214@microsoft.com...
> 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?