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July 30th, 2007 07:00

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i have my windows vista upgrade disc that dell sent to me.when try to to put in the product key it would not accept it.the same thing happened when i had to reinstall my windows xp and i was told i did not have to put a key in because it came from dell.is vista the same or do i need to call dell?
 
 
 
 
 
Dell Dimension E521
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2000 MHz
Physical Memory : 1024 MB (2 x 512 DDR2-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 6150 LE
Hard Disk : ST3160812AS (160 GB)
Hard Disk : WDC (250 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : TSSTcorp CDRWDVD TS-H493A
Monitor Type : Dell Computer DELL E207WFP LCD 20' MONITOR
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack 2
DirectX : Version 9.0c
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    Mary G

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    Posted July 30th, 2007 15:00

    You are not putting in the correct key or you could be mistaking a letter O for the number zero, an eight for a B....etc. This key is the one for Vista that came on the packaging, not the windows key on your computer sticker for XP. When you install vista, you don't have to activate immediately, but you will have to activate within a time limit--30 days or so.
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    Markwhitfield

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    Posted August 1st, 2007 03:00

    Unless you are a computer IT person, Leave Vista in the box. I have found it very unstable. It is slow opening programs ie. windows explorer.The software Dell shipped on the thing wouldn't run on it. (Roxio, it was interfering somehow and giving a constant error message). There are still problems with the Logic web cam. Windows explorerer constantly finds some sort of problem and retstarts itself. I have found simple manuals wriiten on CD's can't be opened and read with it, but they can be read on XP. And so far Dell has been less then helpful, other then to offer to sell me XP for a price that is greater then they are selling Vista for. Go figure.  
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    gbensonsr1

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    Posted August 1st, 2007 03:00

    I Have Upgraded To Vista.And So For everything works fine.there are some things i don't like.they removed some things that where handy to have like the move to and copy to on the windows explorer I Used This A Lot to move files.There Are More But I will Leave It At That.

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