I have a freind who bought a retail copy of Vista home premium. he installed it, Activated it and then did not like it so he went back to XP media center. He wants to sell it and has offered me a good deal on it. Would I have any problems activating it on my desk top system ( home built of course). i am a little reluctant to buy it because of the driver issue with my printer (old canon F-30 that works very well and the drivers for my sound card X-fi in one of my other posts in hardware. I like Vista and I am slowly turning my desktop into a media oriented computer. So to say the least with Vista I can have my cake and eat it to.