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Oops yeah you're right mate I had forgotten I had started with VistaI think the key points here are yours originally came with Vista, so your OEM was a separate purchase.Hiyya and welcome Isyther as ignaztsonic says - slightly different though is that I had an OEM on a refurbished machine in which the motherboard died and a phone call to Microsoft and they let me transfer the OEM to another machine that had previously been Vista (the other machine I had slipped in a SSD of course).I still have one question after reading this tutorial. I have a laptop wit windows 7 Home Premium on it can I completly romove windows 7 off it and put it on my desktop? My laptop right now I about to bite the dust, and I built my desktop from scratch. Right now my desktop has windows xp and i was looking to upgrade it.
My point is for the cost of a local phone call what have you got to lose?
The OEM ignatzasonic is speaking about is the one that originally came with Isyther's laptop.
So, if it is like yours, sure it's worth a call.
If it's what ignatzasonic is referring to, it is indeed tied to the motherboard.
If it is a separate retail license, none of the above matters, it can be freely moved to another computer.![]()