10 vista copies

Maybe I am misunderstanding something. Does the 10 Vista copies apply to the product key or the actual downloaded file?
I'm confused.

it means that once you have downloaded and burned it to disc then you are able to use the product key 10 times, so basically u can install it on up to 10 machines!
hope this makes sense lol
"Ryan" wrote:

Maybe I am misunderstanding something. Does the 10 Vista copies apply to the product key or the actual downloaded file?
I'm confused.

Not quite. It means that you may activate the product on ten different machines. Reactivating on any of those ten different machines does not count. You may do that several times without penalty. It is quite possible to activate twenty or thirty times on the same product key as long as no more than ten machines are involved.
"kierz521" wrote in message

it means that once you have downloaded and burned it to disc then you are able to use the product key 10 times, so basically u can install it on up to 10 machines!
hope this makes sense lol
"Ryan" wrote:
Maybe I am misunderstanding something. Does the 10 Vista copies apply to the product key or the actual downloaded file?
I'm confused.

I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard and memory modules, does that count as one machine or two? It's the same box, same disk, same video card, same everything else. But I think Microsoft counts it as 2 machines.
:( Mario
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message

Not quite. It means that you may activate the product on ten different machines. Reactivating on any of those ten different machines does not count. You may do that several times without penalty. It is quite possible to activate twenty or thirty times on the same product key as long as no more than ten machines are involved.
"kierz521" wrote in message it means that once you have downloaded and burned it to disc then you are able to use the product key 10 times, so basically u can install it on up to 10 machines!
hope this makes sense lol
"Ryan" wrote:
Maybe I am misunderstanding something. Does the 10 Vista copies apply to the product key or the actual downloaded file?
I'm confused.

Microsoft does not count it quite that way. A new mobo is not "counted". It is certain hardware characteristics, some of which are on the mobo, that are counted. It is a ten point system, with the accumulation of seven points changed that triggers reactivation. At the time of activation, the wizard generates a hardware hash that incorporates, among other things, the hardware characteristics. The following is from: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302878#5h
The 10 hardware characteristics that are used to determine the hardware hash.
The following 10 hardware characteristics are used to determine the hardware hash: . Display adapter . SCSI adapter . IDE adapter . Network adapter media access control address . RAM amount range (for example, 0-64MB or 64-128MB) . Processor type . Processor serial number . Hard disk device . Hard disk volume serial number . CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive
Note: Only the system drive is checked. Only the first cd/dvd drive is checked. Ram is considered changed if the amount of ram changes by at least 64MB, but changing by more than that does not matter. Once one of the hardware items changes, that hardware item is not counted as changed again no matter how much swapping you do until reactivation writes a new hardware hash. You could try out five video cards and it would only be one item change (the first change sets the flag but further changes have no additional effect.) You can change up to seven characteristics before reactivation is triggered.
So if a lot of the items are built into your mobo, changing the mobo will probably trigger reactivation. If your display adaptor and NIC are cards and not integrated on the mobo you might not have to reactivate. In any case, as you can see from the list, the mobo itself is not a hardware characteristic.

"Mario" wrote in message

I'm thinking of upgrading my motherboard and memory modules, does that count as one machine or two? It's the same box, same disk, same video card, same everything else. But I think Microsoft counts it as 2 machines.
:( Mario
"Colin Barnhorst" wrote in message Not quite. It means that you may activate the product on ten different machines. Reactivating on any of those ten different machines does not count. You may do that several times without penalty. It is quite possible to activate twenty or thirty times on the same product key as long as no more than ten machines are involved.
"kierz521" wrote in message it means that once you have downloaded and burned it to disc then you are able to use the product key 10 times, so basically u can install it on up to 10 machines!
hope this makes sense lol
"Ryan" wrote:
Maybe I am misunderstanding something. Does the 10 Vista copies apply to the product key or the actual downloaded file?
I'm confused.