Windows Vista reactivation woes in 2019

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Andre0111

I am aware that Windows Vista is well out of support (please don't remind me, as that would be meaningless and wasteful of yours and my own time), but I been having issues getting two PCs reactivated.



One of the PCs came with Vista, it is a Dell OptiPlex, but it refused to activate the sticker product key. Another PC is a virtual machine, which I bought a genuine license for. They all have their hard drives replace, the virtual machine's virtual hard drive got corrupted. I tried reentering the product key but they both report as their product keys in use, which isn't currently true.


I tried contacting Dell for help with the OptiPlex machine, but just be nagged about Vista no longer being supported, etc. and went nowhere. (By the way, the OptiPlex machine is dual-booted with Windows 10 and Vista.


For all your information, I use Vista for the enthusiast reasons and for a sense of nostalgia. I paid for the Vista license and the other PC came with it, why should I be subjected to not having a license product? I really don't want to resort into having pirating Windows and such, just to use Windows Vista with no interruption. Which is why I'm writing here for.

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