Thank you for replying to my email

Sorry, I am not familiar with this online digital locker your referring to,
and that's part of the problem is not knowing my product key # for the -
Windows Anytime upgrade (I know it for the Home Premium, but not for the
Windows Anytime). How do I go about do that?
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bjg3117


"Gary Mount" wrote:

> Use the Phone in method to activate your copy.
> My experience is similar to yours. I upgraded from Home Premium to Ultimate
> and had a system failure some weeks later and had to reinstall.
> I could not activate my re installed version automatically via the Internet.
> I had reinstalled to a different hard drive from my first activated install.
> Instead of phoning in to activate, I reinstalled Ultimate but installed to
> the same drive the first activated version had been installed on.
> The activation went through without having to use the phone method.
> Anyway, the phone in method will work.
>
> I am assuming you used your anytime upgrade license key to reinstall the
> upgrade.
> If you did not, then you can go to your online digital locker and recover
> your anytime upgrade license key to reinstall your upgrade.
>
> "Mousesurfer" <Mousesurfer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:191CF454-5C19-4DB6-A22D-16F35AF2017A@microsoft.com...
> > I purchased from Staples (07/05/2007) the Windows Anytime Upgrade disc to
> > go
> > from; Windows Vista Home Premium to Windows Vista Ultimate. (This was all
> > from from a complete witch over from Windows XP to begin with as I bought
> > a
> > new computer system. Which, quite truthfully has been nothing but
> > frustrating
> > and headaches right from the beginning).
> >
> > My computer crashed. I re-installed HP Recovery Disc & Windows Anytime
> > Discs
> > - all seemed well. Then it started telling me I needed to - "Activate
> > Windows
> > in so many days or it would (I believe it said) become inactive? Which it
> > did.....I'm now back to just Windows Home Premium.
> >
> > Does this mean I have to fork out more money? and I guess and can't even
> > just get the upgrade this time around can I? because I'm already on the
> > Home
> > Premium?
> > I need help please!!!! I fairly new at all this. I'm not a computer tech,
> > just a someone that has a homebased computer.
> > --
> > bjg3117
>
>