What happens if I install a new windows on a computer product key OEM windows laptop?

I bought a laptop in 2009 with Windows Vista Home Basic OEM on it (I still have the sticker of the portable product key).

This year, I bought a larger capacity HARD drive and installed on my laptop.

I thought it was the perfect time to upgrade to Windows 7, so I bought a DVD of Windows 7 Ultimate.

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my HDD new and used the new Windows 7 Ultimate DVD product key.

My questions are,

What will happen to the product key Windows Vista Home Basic OEM?

If it is replaced with the new product key?

Is the OEM product key became invalid?

Now I use Windows Pro 10, as a free upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate, so...

What my new Windows 10 Pro registered product key?

I know that since windows 8, the product key is installed on the BIOS (am I right?).

then, how it actually works?

Thank you very much for the reply.

Kind regards

NIRWAN H

Hello

No matter if you did a clean Windows 7 or updated installation to upgrade to windows 7 from Vista, this OEM Vista product key is blocked on this computer and cannot be transferred to another machine.

You can only use this key OEM of Vista to reinstall Vista on this particular machine and start over.

Licensing rules (my words)

If the computer/laptop comes with the preinstalled Windows operating system (Dell, HP, Acer, etc.) or is licensed to OEM System Builders, that the product key that came with the computer/laptop is preinstalled OEM license and is not transferable.

OEM license/product key (systems of operating pre-installed on Dell, HP, etc.) and the license OEM System Builders are related to the first machine it is installed on and dies when machine who dies.

Only retail Operating System license that you buy and install yourself, are allowed to be transferred to another machine.

And retail licenses also can be installed on a machine at one time.

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Rec would be the free upgrade to 10 7 as Vista never qualified for the free upgrade to 10.

The key/license Windows product to describe the operating system, Windows 7, Windows 8.1, etc. is absorbed by upgrading Windows 10 during the installation process and becomes an integral part of the active Windows 10 final installation.

The license qualifying operating system, either Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, etc. cannot be used anywhere else, or in a dual boot with Windows 10.

But there is no product key for your free upgrade to 10.

Hardware configuration you laptop is stored on Microsoft servers and how your machine will be recognized if you always want to reinstall 10.

See you soon.

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