On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 12:40:40 -0400, Jim Henderson wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 02:15:45 -0400, Mike Horvath wrote:
> 
>> On 9/11/2015 11:41 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2015 23:58:05 -0400, Mike Horvath wrote:
>>>
>>>> There should be a sticker on the laptop case with your product key.
>>>> You should be able to use any Windows installation disk (for your
>>>> version of Windows), and then just plug in your product key when
>>>> you're done installing.
>>>
>>> That depends - sometimes the key only works with an OEM version of
>>> Windows.  IIRC, there also are keys that only work with volume license
>>> versions of Windows.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> There is no OEM "version" of Windows. There are OEM licenses and retail
>> licenses, but the version of Windows remains the same, and installation
>> media should not matter.
> 
> And yet, it does (or at least, it used to).
> 
> I personally ran into problems using retail keys with MS Select VLA
> subscription media, and OEM licenses with boxed media.
> 
> It's possible that MS has changed this since I last tried it (it's been
> a while), but this absolutely used to be the case.

As I said, it's been a while, looks like since Vista, this hasn't been an 
issue.

Shows how much I use Windows. :)

Jim



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besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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