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Re: Vista Business downgrade to XP Pro and entitlement to Vista

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 17:06, <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Leif - I used that program and it showed a key for XP which was different
than the key shown on the holographic label on the bottom of the laptop.
So I guess I have two distinct keys - one for XP and one for Vista. I also
went to the M$ site looking for answers and ran into a dead end when they
demanded a credit card for me to submit a question to them via email.

What you need to do is quite simple: Call up Lenovo and tell them to
send you a Vista recovery kit. This will take 2-4 weeks, and probably
set you back around 50$.

The Vista recovery kit will use OEM Preactivation, which uses a key
that is embedded into the Notebooks ACPI Tables. So no need to enter a
key at all.

Remember to burn the XP media you have right now using Rescue +
Recovery to ensure you have XP recovery media.


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