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Hello to Everyone

I thought for my first post I would just post a bit about me and why I am here.

I have worked in electrical retail for over 3 years now and mostly sell PC's and laptops.
I know a bit about PC's (enough to build one and sell them anyway) and I like anything to do with music, video conversion, and the internet.

If I can help in anyway I will and if I am not here I will be over at the DVD Reviewer forums with the same name. My name comes from the first DVD player I every bought - a "Mico" - £190 and one of the first to play mp3 files!

My present computer has XP Home installed on it. System became unstable at one point due to spyware. My computer tech was, with great patience, able to fix system so that it works, but I'm concerned about life of it because it's almost 5 years old.

I don't normally buy computers with NEW operating systems when they first come out . . . too many bugs still to be resolved.

My question is if I HAVE to get a new computer with the Vista system, will I still be able to use my MS OFFICE SMALL BUSINESS 2000 and FrontPage 2003 with it. Unfortunately Microsoft doesn't understand that there are some of us and I don't mind giving you my age which is 60, who can't afford to continually buy new software or are content with what we've got and want to continue using it. If anyone has had any experience with at least the programs above and Vista, please let me know.

I recently bought a copy of windows vista basic, however, it doesn't work well with my computer. I had way to many compatiblity problems. I also didn't like the features of vista. I seem to have more features with my windows xp. I couldn't even get windows moviemaker to work with in vista. I used the vista upgrade tool to check my computer, everything got good marks. I'm using a emachines T5026 from 05'. it has a 3.06 Ghz processor with 1GB Ram. it doesn't have a dedicated video card, it has an intricated card on the mother board, so this was probally some of my problem. Any ways, I reinstalled windows xp service pack 2 and eveything is back to normal. Here's my question. can I sell this copy of windows vista basic ? I did register it with microsoft. I was told by someone at Best Buy that I may be able to sell this copy after reinstalling windows xp. I hope I can because it's worthless to me at this point. Any buyers ? LOL.

In the few short months I have been a member of these very useful forums I've noticed there have been several queries relating to activating Vista.

At the risk of boring you, I wondered if a precis of the procedures would be of help to any of you.

With Vista, your product key identifies your edition of the operating system. The retail DVD contains several editions of Vista and your product key identifies which edition you acquired. When you enter your product key and click Next, Setup will install the edition that matches your key.

In the few short months I have been a member of these very useful forums I've noticed there have been several queries relating to activating Vista.

At the risk of boring you, I wondered if a precis of the procedures would be of help to any of you.

With Vista, your product key identifies your edition of the operating system. The retail DVD contains several editions of Vista and your product key identifies which edition you acquired. When you enter your product key and click Next, Setup will install the edition that matches your key.