activation of vista home, service Pack2 problems

A couple of months, I had a problem with my PC crashing when I was with my music player or media. After contacting windows answers finally got help and the problem has been corrected (or seemed to be) after receiving instructions to do a clean reinstall of my vista home package, service pack 2. After a week or two, it started crashing again. Being a nice guy, I thought only not to harm microsoft again and reinstalled my OS again. After trying to activate vista online, microsoft now tell me I can't do a clean install, because it is an upgrade package. They have now closed some operations. I was happy with my vista home for 4 years and that you don't want to upgrade again immediately that there is another windows OS on the horizon. What can I please?

Malcolm Barrow

It seems that you have simply overlooked activate your Vista installation.

You may need to activate by phone.

telephone activation.
Click the Start button
in the search box, type
SLUI 4
and press the Enter key
Follow the instructions - but when asked which service you need the ansafone phone, don't answer - it should oblige the operator to answer, who can deal with you.

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