Product key Vista says its invalid

After reinstalling vista on my computer, it shows the product key is not valid. I tried to run the program slui.exe 4 but it is not on my machine?

Can you please provide a valid product key.

"Alan261" wrote in message News: f51e892e-254-4fae-aec4-126452f2e6ae...

I just picture disc that came with my dell, so it doesn't have the product key for vista. I entered the product key on the computer.

Note that this is an update of XP because I have lost these discs

In this case, that's the problem - the key based on the computer is for XP, not Vista (check the COA sticker) you should have received another key for the Vista disk and do this key.
 

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