upgrading to vista

Though I have bought my thinkpad with XP downgrade, if I want to upgrade to vista (I have vista recovery discs), do I just insert the Vista recovery discs to start with? What I don't understand is the licensing issue: the recovery discs were sent by the service separately from the machine, apparently the same discs can be used on different machines of the same model. So where does the license go?

 

I believe that you will not need to enter license information if you use the recovery disk because information is already integrated in the disk. If it asks, then use key under the laptop.

 

Even though you've received a machine with XP, technically you bought Vista, which Lenovo downgraded for you to XP because Vista Business and Ultimate include the right to downgrade to XP. Before you install Vista I'd make the XP recovery discs. If at some point in the future you decide you want to go to XP, you can. As noted the discs are already pre-activated. You shouldn't need to do anything. The discs will probably another machine, though you may have driver issues depending on the hardware configuration.