No activation for Vista for a year.

[chunkylover77]

Windows Vista can be run for at least a year without being activated, a serious end run around one of Microsoft Corp.'s key antipiracy measures, Windows expert Brian Livingston said today.

Livingston, who publishes the Windows Secrets newsletter, said that a single change to Vista's registry lets users put off the operating system's product activation requirement an additional eight times beyond the three disclosed last month. With more research, said Livingston, it may even be possible to find a way to postpone activation indefinitely.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013258&intsrc=hm_ts_head

[XS Janus]

Intersting... reading now. Thanks!

edit: I got the first post! :p:

[RADCOM]

just in time for Vista service pack 4 lol thanks for the update m8

[damnnit]

The "trick" was posted on this forum awhile back. check out previous posts in xtreme news section.

[jbizzler]

I bet MS's anti-piracy team cries 24/7.

[\/icious]

I bet MS's anti-piracy team cries 24/7.
Nah they are probably like :banana::banana::banana::banana: it, we got paid

[mursaat]

Never forget regedit is your friend!

[zerotol]

I bet MS's anti-piracy team cries 24/7.

They can work and work but the hackers are just with a lot more people.It's an uphill battle :wierd:

[nn_step]

umm why would this matter? You don't EVER need to activate

[cantankerous]

I wonder how long till this gets patched.

[nn_step]

I wonder how long till this gets patched.

you do realize that you can strip any patch from windows right?

[alpha_tot]

Whats the legality of this? Or even extending the 30 day period to 120 days for that matter? If youre gonna go ahead and to this you may as well just admit youre a pirate and do the OEM activation thing.

[Stuperman]

My buddy was running an expired copy of Vista on his Laptop for months, he just never turned it off...

[IYP]

lol, aren't there time freezer cracks out there too that suspend activation indefinitely?

[Kenetixx]

This trick does not work on newer prints of vista, it looks like if you get a copy of vista which has been printed after 29th of Jan it will not work, the rearm does nothing.