As an "owner", I would not put up with any of this nonsense. ;P

And you can't reply to CP posts because the link doesn't work :) MVVM # - I did it My Way ___________________________________________ Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011 .\\axxx (That's an 'M')

If you go to the insider news forum you can find a link http://www.codeproject.com/insider.aspx[^] Frazzle the name say's it all Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. John F. Woods

I had the same problem and can confirm, that if you borrow a DVD and choose the 64-bit version for a clean install, then you can use your product key to activate it. It is explained somewhere in the EULA, that all keys are for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Coincidentally my reasons to do this were the same as yours (WP8 development). Sadly my story still didn't have a happy ending, because it turned out my laptop wasn't fit to run HyperV (or whatever is required to run the new emulator), so I just gave up on it altogether.

Johnny J. wrote: It's a test to see who's got a sense a humour and who hasn't - sorry, you failed! ;-P Personally I think that means that he won a prize. :) -- Harvey

Have to agree that the registry was a bad idea. Drivers, well it is always nice to have control of your hardware so that you do not have two worry about hardware manufacturers having to provide drivers since thier hardware is different. It is a lot better than it use to be. Certainly also MS is much more of a target for hackers than apple because it has a much larger user base. I use to be an Apple person, and I got frustated with Apple's poor performance, and high cost. Maybe they are better now, but back then they designed hardware in house, and I did not think it was all that great except that they used the much better 68000. Did not like the IMac, among the problems was not enough power on the USB.