Where's My Product Key for Activation??

[JonH]

This is annoying and might expose my (lack of) experience.

This is my first build. I put all the parts together and put juice to it with no smoke, sparks or fires. I have 64-bit Vista that I put into the DVD-ROM and it went through its "thing" and everything went great until it asks for the product key.

Where the h*** is my product key?

I looked all over the packaging for it and my eyes are failing me. The screen that I'm looking at "strongly suggests" that I enter my key now.

If I ignore that and continue, I get the screen that asks "are you SURE you don't want to enter your key now?"

Is it normal to just activate it on-line, later? AND, if that's the "norm" why do they put these screens in?

Thanks in advance,
Jon in American Fork

 

[tlarkin]

It is on your legally purchased copy of Windows. it is the 25 character alpha-numeric code that you input during activation to activate your copy of windows.

 

[JonH]

I TOLD you I'm blind!!

I found it. Jeez, it's small.

Thanks again,
Jon inAmerican Fork

 

[camel lips]

I TOLD you I'm blind!!

I found it. Jeez, it's small.

Thanks again,
Jon inAmerican Fork

Yeah,,I have to get a big ole magnifying glass out to read mine.Warning the 8 and B look a lot alike.