Clean install

[dwhynman]

I want to do a clean install on my mac. It is starting to act up a little and I want to just clean it up and start over. I have parallels with windows 7 on the computer with office 2010. I also have cs5. After I wipe and reload snowleopard can I reinstall my applications with the old serial numbers or are my serial numbers all used up? do i need to uninstall thm before the wipe?
thanks in advance

 

[spinnerlys]

Your serial numbers will still work, unless the applications still need some kind of online activation. No need to uninstall them, as that does nothing to the serial numbers.

 

[celticpride678]

Your serial numbers will still work.

 

[Hellhammer]

If your Windows 7 is OEM version, then you may need to call MS since OEM serial only works once

 

[dwhynman]

If your Windows 7 is OEM version, then you may need to call MS since OEM serial only works once

what is oem

 

[spinnerlys]

what is oem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_equipment_manufacturer or http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/Pages/default.aspx found via search for, wait for it, "oem"