Windows 10: Activating Windows 10 with Windows Vista Home Premium

I have a Windows Vista Home premium key, that when Win7 was release, I update to it. When Win10 came out same thing, no issues. Now, had problems with my hard drive and had to re-install and activate Win10. I went to a MCP here in the city I live in Germany, and problem solved. Two weeks later, my system crashed and had to replace the Mainboard and hard drive. Now, I installed windows without a Key and when prompted to activate windows, I can't. It says my key has already been used.How can I reset my Windows Key to activate?

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Windows Vista Activation

I have 4 sytems in my home running vista(1 ult.-3 prem).The ultimate & 1 premium took SP1
wthout a hitch.1 premium required re-activation?,The other premium did not list SP1 in windows up-date,So i manually installed it without any re-activation required.
Also have to add that SP1 has increased performance in every comp.The ultimate machine actually got a 1,100 point increase in 3d 06 without any other changes at all.

 

Windows Vista Activation

Holy *Eek! ! 1100pts from going to SP1? That's awesome! I can't wait until this weekend! *Big Grin

 

Windows Vista Premium requirements

Microsoft has broken down its requirements for the Windows Vista logo program into two categories: Basic and Premium. To get the Premium logo the PC has to have the following requirements:

• Must have H.264 hardware decoding
• Must have HDCP
• Must support multi-monitor support
• Must have HD audio
• Must have HD audio jack presence detection
• Must have Serial ATA 2.5
• Must have minimum of 50MB NV cache on hybrid HD's with at least 8MB/sec write 16MB/sec read (for mobile only)
• Must support booting from USB flash drives
• Must have Windows Vista Green Button on all remotes
• Must have Green Driver Quality Rating (DQR)

The hybrid HD is only required by notebooks. Well It seems my PC is not Windows Vista Premium logo compliant.

Source: DailyTech