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Dual Booting Windows Vista Ultimate 32 and 64 Bit... CD Key?

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'lo... apologies if this has been answered already... however...

Reading the recent article "Vista Workshop : More RAM, More Speed"... it mentioned that your 32-bit Vista cd-key will work for your 64-Bit Vista copy. Assuming this is true...

Does that mean I can load 32-bit Vista and 64-Bit Vista onto a single computer and run them on the same CD-Key? Further, has anyone here done this, and if so, has it run without a hitch (i.e. not encountering "CD-Key already registered" issues)?

I ask this because I participated in the Windows Feedback Panel, and I was sent Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit and 64-bit... and funny enough, each DVD came with a different cd-key, so naturally... it made me curious :).

I would have tested this myself, but I haven't built the computer that I will be loading these onto yet.

Thanks for your replies!

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Legally, I would say yes, you can. You won't use both at the same time and they are on the same hardware.

If I had that setup and needed to call M$ for reactivation, I would not be scared to tell them about that configuration. You could tell them a program or driver is not 64bits compatible.

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Excellent. Legal is good then.

Now... for practical... has anyone done this before, and if so, have they run into validation problems or triggered some sort of anti-piracy measure because of it?

I'd take the word of the aforementioned article... but considering how it was inaccurate on a couple points, I wanted to verify with someone else.

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