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Any suggestions would be good please.
Recently I upgraded a laptop from Vista to Windows 8 Pro and after activation I found that Windows Media Centre could be installed with a free key from MS. I went ahead and did that. All is well and everything is working ok on the Vaio.
Today I have installed a brand new (with a fresh MS key) version of Windows 8 Pro in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro retina. It installed ok and was activated without problems (using the new key).
I then added Windows Media Centre to the vm version of Win 8 after being sent the key by MS. I thought the key looked familiar but carried on anyway.
After the restart the system is now telling me that the key is invalid as it's being used on another pc. So they actually sent me the same key for WMC/Windows activation.
I do some reading and see that MS states that only one WMC key can be used per email address. So that's why they sent me the same key again.
My problem is that now I've used this key on the second system Windows 8 is now showing that it isn't activated. This is obviously a problem.
So it seems that even though I've got 2 separate valid Windows installations, with separate valid keys, I can only have the free version of WMC on one of them.
Not happy but if that's how it is then so be it.
My problem is that my second system is not now activated.
Can I just uninstall WMC from one laptop and re-activate Windows with the old key?
I'm stumped
Recently I upgraded a laptop from Vista to Windows 8 Pro and after activation I found that Windows Media Centre could be installed with a free key from MS. I went ahead and did that. All is well and everything is working ok on the Vaio.
Today I have installed a brand new (with a fresh MS key) version of Windows 8 Pro in a virtual machine on my MacBook Pro retina. It installed ok and was activated without problems (using the new key).
I then added Windows Media Centre to the vm version of Win 8 after being sent the key by MS. I thought the key looked familiar but carried on anyway.
After the restart the system is now telling me that the key is invalid as it's being used on another pc. So they actually sent me the same key for WMC/Windows activation.
I do some reading and see that MS states that only one WMC key can be used per email address. So that's why they sent me the same key again.
My problem is that now I've used this key on the second system Windows 8 is now showing that it isn't activated. This is obviously a problem.
So it seems that even though I've got 2 separate valid Windows installations, with separate valid keys, I can only have the free version of WMC on one of them.
Not happy but if that's how it is then so be it.
My problem is that my second system is not now activated.
Can I just uninstall WMC from one laptop and re-activate Windows with the old key?
I'm stumped
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- OS X / Windows 8.1 Pro / Ubuntu 13.10
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- 15" MacBook Pro retina 10,1
- CPU
- 2.3GHz
- Memory
- 8GB 1600MHz
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel HD400 / Nvidia GT650M
- Screen Resolution
- 2880 x 1800
- Hard Drives
- 256GB SSD