I`m thinking about treating myself to a new pc, been browsing the dell site 
and their pcs come with genuine windows vista home premium. Is this a
genuine copy of the operating system or pre installed with some kind of
recovery disc?

thanks in advance

Ken.

On Aug 26, 10:58 pm, "Ken" 
wrote:
> I`m thinking about treating myself to a new pc, been browsing the dell site
> and their pcs come with genuine windows vista home premium. Is this a
> genuine copy of the operating system or pre installed with some kind of
> recovery disc?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ken.

Pre installed with a recovery disk is the last few I have bought.
Although an OEM copy of vista and their serial works if you want to do
a clean install at a later date.

-Ben

Wagg wrote:
> On Aug 26, 10:58 pm, "Ken" 
> wrote:
>> I`m thinking about treating myself to a new pc, been browsing the dell site
>> and their pcs come with genuine windows vista home premium. Is this a
>> genuine copy of the operating system or pre installed with some kind of
>> recovery disc?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> Ken.
> 
> Pre installed with a recovery disk is the last few I have bought.
> Although an OEM copy of vista and their serial works if you want to do
> a clean install at a later date.
> 
> -Ben


Nah, my last one was pre-installed but also came with a Dell XP disk - 
the disk being standard windows XP (no crapware) but installed without 
the need to enter the key (it reads the BIOS). Tehre was also a crapware 
disc which of course is optional.
You're right that any generic disc will install though and Dell's 
download datavse is excellent and goes back for absolutely years

Thanks Guys, Reason i was asking is i may want to format and do a clean 
install at a later date.
Ken.
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> Wagg wrote:
>> On Aug 26, 10:58 pm, "Ken" 
>> wrote:
>>> I`m thinking about treating myself to a new pc, been browsing the dell 
>>> site
>>> and their pcs come with genuine windows vista home premium. Is this a
>>> genuine copy of the operating system or pre installed with some kind of
>>> recovery disc?
>>>
>>> thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Ken.
>>
>> Pre installed with a recovery disk is the last few I have bought.
>> Although an OEM copy of vista and their serial works if you want to do
>> a clean install at a later date.
>>
>> -Ben
>
>
> Nah, my last one was pre-installed but also came with a Dell XP disk - the 
> disk being standard windows XP (no crapware) but installed without the 
> need to enter the key (it reads the BIOS). Tehre was also a crapware disc 
> which of course is optional.
> You're right that any generic disc will install though and Dell's download 
> datavse is excellent and goes back for absolutely years