Transferring windows Vista licence

[jpd1977uk]

I have a OEM copy of Windows Vista and was wondering if I can use it on a new custom built PC?

I will be formatting the old drive.

 

[Memphis]

Nope.

/Begin barrage of replies stating you can if you ignore the licence agreement LOLZ M$.

 

[NutterzUK]

Sorry but...

New custom built PC... please don't put Vista on it. Do you have XP or Windows 7 anywhere? I'm sure you can probably pick one up pretty cheap?

 

[Meatball]

Sorry but...

New custom built PC... please don't put Vista on it. Do you have XP or Windows 7 anywhere? I'm sure you can probably pick one up pretty cheap?

XP on a new build? The very least you should be using nowadays is Windows 7 x64 .

 

[T345]

XP on a new build? The very least you should be using nowadays is Windows 7 x64 .

XP is 30000000000000000000 times better than vista

 

[scrlk]

XP is 30000000000000000000 times better than vista

 

[T345]

If vista is 0, then XP is 30000000000 times better than vista, you get it now?

 

[scrlk]

If vista is 0, then XP is 30000000000 times better than vista, you get it now?

I really don't get the Vista bashing 6 years after it was released. Yes, driver support, especially with x64 was patchy at release but this was ironed out a year after release. It's a great, solid, dependable OS.

Who would still bother using XP? It's the equivalent of running Windows 98.

 

[lurkio]

I really don't get the Vista bashing 6 years after it was released. Yes, driver support, especially with x64 was patchy at release but this was ironed out a year after release. It's a great, solid, dependable OS.

Who would still bother using XP? It's the equivalent of running Windows 98.

It is too heavy on resources compared to either XP or Win 7 , that is why it is bashed

 

[Burnsy2023]

It is too heavy on resources compared to either XP or Win 7 , that is why it is bashed

There's really not that much difference.

 

[scrlk]

There's really not that much difference.

Indeed, the specs for Vista was on the relatively high side back in 2006, but most people have a system with more than 4GB of RAM today.

 

[lurkio]

There's really not that much difference.

There is , try win 7 / vista / xp on a 1Gig ram machine and see the difference

 

[Duke]

Who has a 1GB system? Especially as the OP is talking about a new custom built system. Windows 7 is a no brainer but if you had the choice of Vista or XP then Vista everytime. After SP1 it was fine.

 

[Burnsy2023]

There is , try win 7 / vista / xp on a 1Gig ram machine and see the difference

I used to run Vista on a 1GB machine when it was first released. There's not much difference between that memory footprint and 7.

 

[Orcvader]

Pfft, use 8 .