How to Clean Install Windows Vista with Upgrade Media

yip......can save quite a lot of money like this ! but il prob get the dsp version.

is there any difference in packaging, or any software differences between the dsp and the normal versions?
 
DSP HAS LIMITED NUMBER OF LEGAL INSTALLS!!
Go over the 10 installs and that's it its expired.
Withe the Retail and upgrade editions you can install as many times as you want. Also with DSP you can't call MS for help, but must call your system builder for any assistance.
 
ShockG said:
DSP HAS LIMITED NUMBER OF LEGAL INSTALLS!!
Go over the 10 installs and that's it its expired.
Withe the Retail and upgrade editions you can install as many times as you want. Also with DSP you can't call MS for help, but must call your system builder for any assistance.
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Also you can only install the DSP version on one PC. In practical terms this means if you change your motherboard good luck, it seems to be what they check.
 
Exactly. In the end you'll end up paying twice for the OS or looking for hacks cracks that so far don't exist etc... Or even end up installing every 30days.
That's not cool. Rather buy the upgrade/retail and be done with it. It'll cost you allot less in the end.
 
i dunno about the upgrade i mean what if you dont like it and your printer drivers and scanners driver dont work

you cannot go back and will have to reload xp
 
I reinstalled my DSP XP version like 20 times. The last time they told me I had to phone for a code. I spoke to some Scottish person and I was sorted out in 10 Minutes. So you can go over the installs it just means every time you have to phone MS.
 
Not for Vista you can't. As it was said, change motherboard and that's it you're in it deep.
 
ShockG said:
Not for Vista you can't. As it was said, change motherboard and that's it you're in it deep.
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I agree with you on the hardware change but for reinstalls is surly cant be!

Me think I must get in contact with Microsoft....
 
A Microsoft representative confirmed that users may buy an OEM copy of Windows Vista at a substantial discount, provided they adhere to the terms of the license – which, incidentally, may mean providing support for family members.

In addition, users should still be subject to the same familiar re-activation restrictions as users of a retail Vista license and Windows XP, a spokeswoman said. Users can alter the PC's hardware substantially, but they will be forced to reactivate – not repurchase the OEM software – if they do, she said.

One system builder pointed out, however, that Microsoft's OEM license forbids the software from being transferred to a whole new machine, from scratch, once it is installed on the original target machine.

OEM copies of Vista began showing up this week at e-tailers like Newegg.com, for substantial discounts, which can run up to half off the price of a standalone retail copy of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. Microsoft is also offering its own in-house discounts, in the form of a Vista Family Pack, which allows the purchase of up to two copies of Vista Home Premium for $49.99, provided that a customer buy Windows Vista Ultimate at full price, through retail.
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Rather buy the upgrade rather than the DSP is you change mobos allot. You really don't want to find your R2,200 Ultimae is useless and you have to buy another one.
 
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