wiredbits

Personally I find BV's suggestions worthless but if it floats your boat go for it.

Thanks for the reply but I am aware of ABR, used it months ago when I first found the thread here on MSFN Guess I was not clear in my OP, the OEM key that HP installs does not work anymore. I was always under the impression that key would always be accepted by MS.

anyone else was asked to activate their OEM (i have a HP laptop) yesterday Woke up, turned on the laptop to do a little reading and the first thing I get was a prompt asking me to activate windows, after six months this happens! I did go to HP online help and as usual did not get any so I just entered the key that is on the sticker, all went well but still I wonder why why now

Hey thanks, worked like a charm. I had two images (Acronis) one of Vista64 and the other XP and decided to dual boot. Made a small partition for XP, restored XP to it then ran startup recovery (VISTA )twice, used VistaBootPro to add XP and all worked out except the Hibernate issue.