Hi Dave,
Generally, these types of preinstalled systems are already activated by the
manufacturer. You would only need to activate were you to invoke whatever
system recovery process you were supplied with to bring the system back to
factory state.
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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
"Dragon" <> wrote in message
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> Hi guys got my dell system a month ago but windows vista home premium
> works great. do I need to activate it in 3 months like what I have read
> on here, how will I know in advance so I can be ready
>
> cheers Dave