Vista OEM Transfer

I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.

As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to the EULA
and formated the hard drive.

Can I transfer the license to another laptop?

thank you
S.

No, its the License Agreement is tied to system and cannot be transfered or
activated on another system.
--
Andre
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"Insprion6400" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.
>
> As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to the EULA
> and formated the hard drive.
>
> Can I transfer the license to another laptop?
>
> thank you
> S.

No.
If do not agree, your option is to return the laptop with the windows
license.
Read the license for details.

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
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http://www.dts-l.org


"Insprion6400" <> wrote in
message news:82EB82C5-758E-4ECC-865F-...
>I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.
>
> As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to
> the EULA
> and formated the hard drive.
>
> Can I transfer the license to another laptop?
>
> thank you
> S.

In message <82EB82C5-758E-4ECC-865F->
Insprion6400 <> wrote:

>I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.
>
>As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to the EULA
>and formated the hard drive.
>
>Can I transfer the license to another laptop?

Arguably yes, in my opinion ethically, yes. Technically, odds are it
will work, although I've not tried it in Vista.

I'd suspect that if asked, Microsoft's official answer would be no.

--
You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word.

No. The Dell OEM license is non-transferrable.
It is BIOS-locked to the Dell motherboard BIOS.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"Insprion6400" <> wrote in message news:82EB82C5-758E-4ECC-865F-...
I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.

As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to the EULA
and formated the hard drive.

Can I transfer the license to another laptop?

thank you
S.

Thanks for your answers.


I knew that if you had been using a pc and then got a new one, that you
couldn't transfer.

I just thought it might have been different if the OS wasn't used.

I'll give MS a call just to confirm.

No, once its an OEM license, its tied to the machine its sold with and
installed on.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Insprion6400" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your answers.
>
>
> I knew that if you had been using a pc and then got a new one, that you
> couldn't transfer.
>
> I just thought it might have been different if the OS wasn't used.
>
> I'll give MS a call just to confirm.
>
>

In message <> "Andre Da
Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote:

>No, its the License Agreement is tied to system and cannot be transfered or
>activated on another system.

Sure, but at what point? I'd argue that it's not tied to anything until
I agree to the license.

I'd hazard a guess that it depends on the wording of the license.

For a large OEM (Dell, etc) who can write up their own license, I'm not
really sure, but in small generic OEM sales, I'd suggest that the
license IS transferable until the end user installs, activates, or
clicks the "I agree" button.

Just my opinion.

--
You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word.

"Insprion6400" <> wrote in message
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>I bought a Laptop from Dell which came with Windows Vista Home OEM.
>
> As I intended to use another Operating System, I did not agree to the EULA
> and formated the hard drive.
>
> Can I transfer the license to another laptop?

Not legally and if you didn't backup the restore partition before you
formatted the drive you probably can't install it on the Dell without paying
cash to Dell for recovery disks.

A generic OEM is not tied until activated as it is not sold with a system. A
large OEM such as Dell is tied before being sold and is not transferable.
The license only applies to the system it is sold with. The OP should have
ordered a system without a preinstalled OS.

--
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

"DevilsPGD" <> wrote in message
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> In message <> "Andre Da
> Costa[ActiveWin]" <> wrote:
>
>>No, its the License Agreement is tied to system and cannot be transfered
>>or
>>activated on another system.
>
> Sure, but at what point? I'd argue that it's not tied to anything until
> I agree to the license.
>
> I'd hazard a guess that it depends on the wording of the license.
>
> For a large OEM (Dell, etc) who can write up their own license, I'm not
> really sure, but in small generic OEM sales, I'd suggest that the
> license IS transferable until the end user installs, activates, or
> clicks the "I agree" button.
>
> Just my opinion.
>
> --
> You can get more with a kind word and a 2x4 than just a kind word.