Need to put Vista back on mother in laws Lappy!

[pumaz]

Mother in law gave me her Asus laptop with Vista installed a few days ago to do a format and re-install (long story but needed doing).

Anyway I had this clever idea of installing Windows 8 preview on it as it must be better than Vista and she would pay £15 odd when it's released. After installing W8 and getting over the wow factor of new OS and interface I have come to the conclusion it's rubbish and I know i'll get comebacks on it! I really hate being the one everyone comes to with there computers as i simply don't get the time

So now i want to put Vista back on but i have a problem.The licence key is on the underside of the laptop but there is no restore partition or recovery discs (lost)

I'm not asking for anything dodgy but is there anywhere i can download a OEM Windows Vista Home from that will work?

Just want this laptop out of my life!!!!!

 

[PiKe]

Vista OEM download in Google should yield something useful.

 

[Fonz-Valo]

Also have a look here

http://en.community.dell.com/suppor...fficial-iso-download-links-digital-river.aspx

I was in the same situation a month or so ago and that worked a treat

 

[pumaz]

Also have a look here

http://en.community.dell.com/suppor...fficial-iso-download-links-digital-river.aspx

I was in the same situation a month or so ago and that worked a treat

Thanks for the link

I'll try this when i've finished work. Do you know if this will work ok with the supplied oem key from Asus?

Thanks

 

[Fonz-Valo]

Thanks for the link

I'll try this when i've finished work. Do you know if this will work ok with the supplied oem key from Asus?

Thanks

It should work fine, I used the supplied Advent key on the laptop I had to re-install and I had no issues at all.

The only thing to note is you will probably have to use the automated phone service to register it.

 

[pumaz]

I'm no stranger to the MS phone line!

Thanks again