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    windows 7 refuses to activate

    I have just bought a new dell desktop. I have installed the windows 7 Operating system and entered the serial key , And to my surprise it is not accepting the serial key also it is giving me an error that my key was invalid. I am not sure why this is happening i am aware that i can use my computer on one system at a time. My old desktop is not operating anymore. Please help me in this serial key issue with windows 7?
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    Re: windows 7 refuses to activate

    In your case the key belongs to the old computer. All you need to do is to use the directions for the telephone and call them or tell them online. So inform them about the serial key issue If you are legal, they will surely help you regarding the problem. They will fix the problem. Hope this will help you

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    Re: windows 7 refuses to activate

    Firstly i would like to know whether you have an OEM copy or not. Because i am not sure that they will provide support for the users who bought an OEM copy. Please mention some more details in your further replies and also mention the configuration of your system.

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    Re: windows 7 refuses to activate

    Talking about OEM as the name suggests "Original equipment manufacturer" basically the OEM typically licenses a number of serial keys to themselves. But as far as activation is concerned it is really another matter which takes place directly between the user and the microsoft company. If the OEM actually came with your previous computer, then it belongs only to that computer and can't be used on any other. So you will have to buy another copy of windows 7.

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    Re: windows 7 refuses to activate

    If you have an OEM (DSP) disc and you have already insatlled that on the first machine at when you pressed f8 for accepting the EULA for the first time it became married to that machine and it will live and die with that machine itself. So you will have to purchase a retail copy of windows 7 if you want to use it for more than one computer.

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    Re: windows 7 refuses to activate

    As far as i know i think that installing OEM software on a computer it did not came with is illegal. The OEM activates all their licenses during first installation and cannot be installed on other machines. This is not the case with the retail version. You may have heard about the discs that come as reinstallation disks with machines such as Dell and others but actually speaking these are not OEM discs. Since they are not manufactured by the Microsoft. They are known as system builder discs that are manufactured by the system builder under the Microsoft license. These discs can install the operating system on various system builder machines only.

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