Activating Vista
In category Geebin on 12 Apr 2007 @ 08:05 am
So I installed Vista on my laptop and had surprisingly few issues right out the box. Sony doesn't seem to want to give Australian customers the Vista drivers for their "Vista compatible" laptops so I ended up downloading them from the Sony support site in the UK. The only thing I haven't been able to find a driver for is the memory card reader, (even the fingerprint scanner and mobile wireless card from Telstra works!).
So next step is to activate windows before it all goes tits up... But apparently it doesn't pester the user to activate for the first 3 days. Nice! Wanting to do this anyway I poked around the unfamilliar system and still couldn't find the activate option and in the end I turned to Google.
The first dozen results were how to crack, break or disable the activation to run pirated windows. I'm not exactly shocked but it appears to be common knowledge on the internet among the types of people that would want to try this. There is a little program that runs as a service and simply disables the countdown for the 30-day activation period, which is also the no-nag period so for all intents and purposes works like a legit system that gets reinstalled every day. Apparently even Windows Update and WGA stuff works without entering a product key at install time. Personally I curious to see if it does indeed work so if anyone has seen it would. Give me an anonymous yell or something.
Maz
P.S. If you are also trying to activate windows and can't find the button either... Right-click "Computer" and go to properties, scroll to the bottom and there is the activation info.
So next step is to activate windows before it all goes tits up... But apparently it doesn't pester the user to activate for the first 3 days. Nice! Wanting to do this anyway I poked around the unfamilliar system and still couldn't find the activate option and in the end I turned to Google.
The first dozen results were how to crack, break or disable the activation to run pirated windows. I'm not exactly shocked but it appears to be common knowledge on the internet among the types of people that would want to try this. There is a little program that runs as a service and simply disables the countdown for the 30-day activation period, which is also the no-nag period so for all intents and purposes works like a legit system that gets reinstalled every day. Apparently even Windows Update and WGA stuff works without entering a product key at install time. Personally I curious to see if it does indeed work so if anyone has seen it would. Give me an anonymous yell or something.
Maz
P.S. If you are also trying to activate windows and can't find the button either... Right-click "Computer" and go to properties, scroll to the bottom and there is the activation info.
