Now You Can Use Vista For A Year Without Activation

[goobimama]

You are wrong pathiks. we are all acting in a civilised manner here. aren't we now? Good.

 

[goobimama]

Yelp! The trick does not work anymore (for me at least). I tried and tried but failed. Now two days remaining for activation.

Koi kuch kar de.
*This technique I'm trying is for testing purposes only*

 

[gxsaurav]

Goobi, it only takes 30 mins on my computer to install Vista. Either buy it or reinstall it

 

[goobimama]

I guess its not that bad. The only software I'll need to put back in is maybe Firefox...

 

[NucleusKore]

Microsoft always knows how to maintain their strangle hold on the OS market by making anti piracy measures with holes (maybe big ones )
That's why they are soft pedalling the home piracy issue.

 

[anandk]

btw, MS is not 'discouraging' such tweaks, for 'using vista without activation' for a year... and i beilev they r stl working. make sure the uac is disabled.

 

[Ankur Mittal]

I will just test and will let U know if it works or not.And dont worry Ur 2 days are left so I will tell by today evening!!!!

 

[goobimama]

I am a genius. Well not exactly.

Since I was sick I didn't have time to rearm windows due to which it expired. So I booted it "with limited functionality". In the opened up Firefox window, I put file > open. Then, in the dialog box, I searched for cmd and ran it. The command window opened up, I entered the slmgr thing, and restarted. Saved me the trouble of going through the installation again....

Didn't know where else to say this.

 

[anandk]

i thought i had posted it earlier here :

A latest study mentions that SkipRearm may or may not help. His findings : While some users reported that they could duplicate the results of changing the SkipRearm value in the Registry. Others found no effect on Vista's activation deadline. Continued tests have revealed that SkipRearm cannot be used to extend Vista's deadline. Instead, the results indicate that Vista has what may be called "defensive mode." In this mode, Vista changes its activation deadline if a PC's system clock is changed...

...However, one can still continue to use Vista without activation for 120 days, by the tip mentioned originally.

more on my Tips page.