License transfer Windows 7 Ultimate from old machine again.

I am a IT consultant and in this crazy business for nearly 30 years. I currently have three computers, two desktops and a laptop.  I bought the laptop and the old office of Acer with Vista Ultimate.  In the meantime, I've updated for Windows 7 Ultimate.  I recently bought a new computer from Dell with Win 7 Home Premium desktop and my two primary readers left the old office of Acer and get in the original drive that has Vista Ultimate on it.  Therefore, I do not use the license for Win 7 ultimate I bought.  I want to improve the Win 7 Home Premium to Ultimate on the new office.

I can't count the licenses of OS I bought Microsoft directly or indirectly over the years, and I don't want to pay for another unnecessarily.  Can I use the existing license upgrade on the new Dell?

"GreyH" wrote in message News: 0d2381ed-0ba1-4221-9132-2e2f05104dee...

Thank you all for the quick responses.  Now all I have to do is to identify which license I have on my laptop and that one was on the old desktop computer.   Is there a way to match a license with a machine?

Thanks again.

Use Belarc Advisor - it'll show all licenses MS installed on the machine, as well as several other useful bits of data :)
 

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