Dear Rick, and all:
> *****Thanks...NOW FOR BELARC disclosure of Myster CD Key...
..Here's a bizarre corollary puzzle. Alarming. In one of the recent related
threads one of you expert folk suggested to someone that they experiment with
Belarc Advisor. Well, I did in the middle of the night, and it produces a ton
of information about my computer... But my purpose was to confirm for myself
my Vista CD Key. But the CD key it lists for my Vista is NOT the one on my
Vista box-thing!!!! Because I'm in the "clean install" phase, does the
computer somehow generate a CD key that is different? Also, it shows under
software Licenses a separate heading for Microsoft VSTA , spelled without the
I, listing a series of digits as a Key, but none of the alphabetic things
that represent Keys as I'm familar with them. Does that refer to my original
Vista install, which now is on (Lord help me!) Drive H.. or, maybe refer to
the folder that either windows or seagate created and labelled Windows.Old
and which contains 4 directories USERS, PROGRAM FILES, PROGRAMDATA, &
WINDOWS. Or perhaps the directory (which contains most of the drive H: stuff)
on my new C: Don't know now whether the Segate utility created that , or the
Vista install did. But, why the mysterious unknown CD KEY listed by Belarc
under Microsoft Vista.? I did have a kid help me with the installation back
in March....and he did have his own vista....but, no.... It was my own disk
that I used for the clean install to the new drive. It's all over my head.
But, this, the Key thing, makes me nervous about the next step, in which I
use my (store bought, at ? 259.00) Ultimate DVD to 'Upgrade" my clean
install, that seems to have a mystery Key.....
"Rick Rogers" wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> Usually, an inplace upgrade preserves existing installed programs.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Jim103144" <Jim103144@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B17B796D-D007-4C47-BF82-66BCEAC41077@microsoft.com...
> > In april when I was struggling, an Elevated MS tech who suggested I
> > reformat
> > my hard drive described the "In Place" clean install using my purchased
> > Vista
> > Ultimate Upgrade Dvd. I forgot. Just Read Paul Randall's description. But
> > here's the thing: I'm half way through, didn't do Part II, the
> > install/upgrade from Vista itself yet. So in the intervening 7 days of my
> > temp. activation, I already installed a zillion programs on my new hard
> > drive, on my original vista machine, spending much time and effort, having
> > to
> > call software people for new unlock codes etc.
> >
> > I should know this but don't : Will the new inplace upgrade that I do, if
> > I
> > go this route, wipe out the installations of these programs? Wil the
> > programs
> > themselves remain on the Vista drive (after I "upgrade" it), and if they
> > remain, will they function without needing reinstallation?? The history
> > behind this is in a previous post...
> > Jim
>
> Thanks...NOW FOR BELARC disclosure of Myster CD Key...
..Here's a bizarre corollary puzzle. Alarming. In one of the recent related
threads one of you expert folk suggested to someone that they experiment with
Belarc Advisor. Well, I did in the middle of the night, and it produces a ton
of information about my computer... But my purpose was to confirm for myself
my Vista CD Key. But the CD key it lists for my Vista is NOT the one on my
Vista box-thing!!!! Because I'm in the "clean install" phase, does the
computer somehow generate a CD key that is different? Also, it shows under
software Licenses a separate heading for Microsoft VSTA , spelled without the
I, listing a series of digits as a Key, but none of the alphabetic things
that represent Keys as I'm familar with them. Does that refer to my original
Vista install, which now is on (Lord help me!) Drive H.. or, maybe refer to
the folder that either windows or seagate created and labelled Windows.Old
and which contains 4 directories USERS, PROGRAM FILES, PROGRAMDATA, &
WINDOWS. Or perhaps the directory (which contains most of the drive H: stuff)
on my new C: Don't know now whether the Segate utility created that , or the
Vista install did. But, why the mysterious unknown CD KEY listed by Belarc
under Microsoft Vista.? I did have a kid help me with the installation back
in March....and he did have his own vista....but, no.... It was my own disk
that I used for the clean install to the new drive. It's all over my head.
But, this, the Key thing, makes me nervous about the next step, in which I
use my (store bought, at ? 259.00) Ultimate DVD to 'Upgrade" my clean
install, that seems to have generated a mystery Key.....
Yike!!
Jim
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