Can I disable the product key of Win7 on a laptop stolen?

I bought a family pack of Windows7 and used a updates on the laptop for my son who was stolen last month.  Can I disable the product key on the laptop and use the key on another pc?

Unfortunately, no, there is no method available to disable remote a product key.

because the thief has your computer, even if it were possible, they could just use a retreival key utility and retrieve your product key. Also, this sets up a cat and mouse scenarios, because they could easily re-activate the license using phone activation. Your best option is to use the phone activation and explain carefully the situation in the call that your product key agent and the laptop has been compromised. The might be able to do something. If you had used the encryption, your data could be much safer.

Activate Windows 7 manually:
1. click on start and in the search for box type: slui.exe 4

2. press enter on your keyboard

3. Select your country.
4. Select the telephone activation option and brace yourself for a real person.
http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/950929/en-us

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