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Can't activate/Upgrade Vista

  • 07-11-2007 8:18pm
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    mick.fr
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    Hi there,

    If I call Microsoft they would probably sort me out, but I wanted to share this here just in case somebody came across this and found a solution.

    I have installed a brand new Vista business N edition (Without Media player) and then activated it with my MSN passort a month ago.

    Then yesterday Vista told me this is not a Genuine version bla bla I have to enter the product key and register.
    So I enter the product key (Comes from my Microsoft Action Pack) and it refuses it saying this is not a product key for Vista N Edition. Alright ok fair enough I though that would work, but obviously not, although my key is for Business edition.

    So I login, can't get to my desktop, it only opens Internet Explorer to the online catalog to buy the product. So from IE I try to start setup.exe from the vista DVD and I got an error that it can't find the autorun.dll (Probably because Vista runs in limited mode).

    So fair enough I reboot Vista and insert the DVD to perform an upgrade from "Vista Business N" to "Vista Business". The installer tells me to perform an upgrade I have to do it from Vista. So I can't move further.

    I am bit stuck lol, I have got files on this laptop.

    Any idea guys?

    Thanks


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