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I don't want to buy dozens of licenses with DVDs until I find one that complies with what you say.ДЄ Certificate of Authenticity (COA) label helps you and yourВ customers identify genuine Microsoft Windows software.

its website frequently refers to networks without including the needed adjective of workgroup (or peer-to-peer) or domain).Д«) A link - or at least a clue to where I would find a link - about where I would get the license that you say I need. On the other other hand, my experience over many years is that Microsoft documentation is lousy (e.g. That can be interpreted as supporting what you say, but on the other hand it does not say explicitly say that the DVD is for reinstalling the exact same operating system that is already on the computer. The writing on the top of the physical DVD itself says that it is a Reinstallation DVD. (Of course, in a very long document I could have missed or misinterpreted something that supports what you say.). When installing my brand new Dell OEM DVD, the installation included a very long Microsoft license document, and I didn't see any statement that OEM DVD's for my situation were illegal. I would very much appreciate the following:ДЄ) A link to some documentation so that I can verify what you say. Since it's already been activated, it couldn't be used again. website that sells all sorts of software, and which knew that I was replacing Vista with Windows 7.

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A true upgrade would require me to buy a Vista license and DVD, re-install Vista, and then buy a Windows 7 upgrade license and DVD.ДЄs a relatively minor issue, if the license came with a new DVD, I would have to trash the OEM DVD, which I purchased from a large U.S. It's too late for me to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7, because I wouldn't really be upgrading since the Vista content on the computer is completely gone.

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If a new DVD accompanied a new license, I would want it to be a clean install license and DVD, not an upgrade license and DVD. Even if I saved my currrent beginning Win7 setup to an external hard disk I couldn't restore store what I saved because it would somewhere have the OEM product key and conflict with the product key that came with the new DVD. Assuming your information is correct, could I buy (from Microsoft or elsewhere) a license for the OEM DVD Product Key that I installed, instead of a new DVD? If a legitimate license comes only with a new DVD, I will have to do a complete wipe of my current installation and start all over again.

My Inbox is empty, even though I have posted about other issues, and received answers from a Dell representative.

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But in this Website's FAQs I can't find out how to search for the earlier one (and in any case I don't think I would have put it in this forum because I just now discovered it). #2 This post may be very similar to an earlier one, posted yesterday (unless I got interrupted and didn't finish the earlier post). #1 What product does that Product ID refer to? The DVD? The Laptop? The Win7Sp1 operating system? Something else? Thanks for any comments, suggestions, or answers! If that subtle activation is not possible, what do I do next? Nevertheless, is it possible that somewhere during the installation, Microsoft automatically activated Windows 7 Sp1? Instead, I read that 'Windows is Activated.'Д«ut at that same location I also read 'Product ID: 0037671-00524,' and I can't find any such number on the Microsoft Certificate Of Authenticity that came with the Dell OEM Win7 Sp1 DVD, or on the DVD itself.

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I did a custom install (using a Dell OEM Win7 Sp1 DVD) instead of an upgrade, because there was no installed application software or data to save.Д«ut when I went to activate the newly installed operating system, at the Start Menu, right-clicking Computer, Clicking Properties, scrolling down to the bottom of the window to get to Windows Activation, I discovered that there was no Change Product Key link. Yesterday I finished doing a clean install of Windows 7 Professional Sp1 onto a very recently acquired Dell Latitude E6500 which had Vista Business on it.