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need vista key help
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Lkhn561
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8. April 2008 @ 08:09 |
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Hi please help i just recently got windows vista home premium but it say i need to activate my product key ive been trying it alot but it says its in use can you please help i need a new product key for windows vista home premium.please give a code i need help thanks for reading
Lkhan
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Hitman32
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8. April 2008 @ 09:57 |
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Where did you purchase it from? If it was brand new in the box for the upgrade it should not be telling you that the key is in use and we can't give out keys as they is pirating.
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Lkhn561
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10. April 2008 @ 09:55 |
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I got it with the box it was an upgrade disc i upgraded from home basic to home premium i really need a code please.
Lkhan
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Hitman32
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10. April 2008 @ 10:19 |
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If it was an upgrade disk shouldn't there be a code for when you upgraded? Some kind of record showing that you purchased it, you can always contact MS and see what they can do for you.
Thing is we can't give out codes here (priacy).
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ddp
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10. April 2008 @ 18:50 |
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talk to microsoft as only they can give legit keys.
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11. April 2008 @ 21:35 |
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activating your windows key is the authorization process to make sure your windows key isn't pirated... you can try activating over the phone and explain your situation. i needed to do that when i reinstalled vista on my laptop for whatever reason... now i've upgraded back to XP Pro.
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V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
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jordangsu
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14. April 2008 @ 06:47 |
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Save yourself a step and go ahead and reinstall XP, your going to do it eventually anyway, I promise.
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Hitman32
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14. April 2008 @ 08:25 |
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Why so certain?
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14. April 2008 @ 19:35 |
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cause you'll like vista for like 3 or 4 months. then you'll find out how crappy it is and switch back to XP... i laughed when a friend of mine told me that too, look at me now...
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V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
30gb Black Video iPod
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Hitman32
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16. April 2008 @ 11:24 |
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I agree there are problems with the compatibility issues, but overall it doesn't seem that bad.
What all problems did you experience to give it the name of a crappy OS?
I do like XP better, easier to get around and use
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16. April 2008 @ 11:45 |
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program incompatability
hardware incompatability (with vista sp1 even though it worked before)
high RAM usage, nearly 1gb when idle compared to 500mb on XP with the same setup
high Video RAM usage when idle, 158MB on Vista to 10MB on xp
it takes around 8gb to install vista compared to the 1.5 of xp
vista starts taking up your harddrive and you need to constantly defrag it to get it back, (i kept only having 9gb free, then after defrag i'd have 16gb)
UAC (user account controls)
windows defender
and the list will go on...
Laptop- AMD Athlon X2 64 @1.9ghz, 4gb ddr2 @667mhz, 120 gb hdd, nVidia GeForce 8200m, 8x DVD-DL Burner, 15.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Ultimate
V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
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buckaneer
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16. April 2008 @ 12:48 |
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edited by ddp
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 16. April 2008 @ 15:17
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ddp
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16. April 2008 @ 15:18 |
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buckaneer, post edited due to piracy.
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buckaneer
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16. April 2008 @ 22:02 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
buckaneer, post edited due to piracy.
No problem; if you also have the power (corporate) to censor O'Reilly Press, please PM me - I want to invest in your business interests.
O'Reilly is FAR from an 'underground' publisher.
@OP: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528355/
See 'Big Book of Windows Hacks';
By Preston Gralla
First Edition October 2007
Pages: 652
Series: Hacks
ISBN 10: 0-596-52835-3 | ISBN 13: 9780596528355
p. 25; hack #04
@ddp: maybe we can un-delete the published info, to keep members and guests from goin' off-site???
Still a beginnerd/mensan/and thinker (see the smoke)...
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Hitman32
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17. April 2008 @ 12:01 |
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Quote:
vista starts taking up your harddrive and you need to constantly defrag it to get it back, (i kept only having 9gb free, then after defrag i'd have 16gb
What causes the mass taking up space in the hardrive and the decreaase in ram?
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17. April 2008 @ 12:33 |
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cause vista is a Bloatware OS... It needs alot of RAM and resources to make it look so shiny and pretty, it runs at about 20% slower than XP from my own expirences... If you like it, then stick with it. But I'm sticking with XP til they work out all the bugs in Vista...
Laptop- AMD Athlon X2 64 @1.9ghz, 4gb ddr2 @667mhz, 120 gb hdd, nVidia GeForce 8200m, 8x DVD-DL Burner, 15.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Ultimate
V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
30gb Black Video iPod
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Hitman32
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17. April 2008 @ 12:44 |
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Saw your response to the def of bloatware.
Not satisfied at all were you
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17. April 2008 @ 20:41 |
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Nope, then I discovered the whole thing with it "using" up my hard drive. The whole 9gb free then after defragging I had 15gb part...
Oh and the included defragging utility SUCKS its an absolutely horrendous(sp) device. There are many free utilities that do the same...
Laptop- AMD Athlon X2 64 @1.9ghz, 4gb ddr2 @667mhz, 120 gb hdd, nVidia GeForce 8200m, 8x DVD-DL Burner, 15.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Ultimate
V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
30gb Black Video iPod
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Hitman32
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18. April 2008 @ 08:19 |
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Any recommandations for freeware that will do the defrag instead of the one they included?
I agree as the one with the os is so slow and it leaves you with no idea with where the progress is.
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ddp
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18. April 2008 @ 11:40 |
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18. April 2008 @ 13:54 |
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i can second the auslogics disk defrag. it's better and more detailed than the supplied microsoft defragger.
also, the auslogics registry defrag comes in handy.
ps2: v7 scph-39001 - independence exploit - hdloader 0.8c - maxtor 300gb hdd
(+[__]%) psp slim ta-085v1: 6.60 PRO B10
wii (powered by bootmii/priiloader): 4.1u - d2x v10beta53-alt (base 56) - configurable usb loader v70r51/devolution r188 - wd scorpio black 7200rpm 320gig w/ ams venus ds2 enclosure
got a whole lot more to list . . .
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cathudog
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18. April 2008 @ 23:35 |
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You can use the command prompt and defragg much better within Vista and don't believe all people say about vista i have 4 systems running vista no issues and perfectly stable all running the new SP1 also and it improved some areas of the operation System. Also use the command prompt to do a more advanced disc clean up that will give you back some of the hard drive space that is eaten up by shadow copy. I also use Diskeeper Pro 2008 on all the time plus use the default Admin account so I do not get any UAC pop ups but it is still running in the background and this is been a good operating system for me and I beat tested since day one for MS and have gotten a lot of freebee for my help with there programs.
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18. April 2008 @ 23:46 |
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well UAC is a setting... an annoying one at that... when i first got my laptop from hp, it had it enabled. then i reinstalled from a retail disk and their default setting is to have it disabled... it all depends on what you have it set at, regardless of Admin rights or not...
Laptop- AMD Athlon X2 64 @1.9ghz, 4gb ddr2 @667mhz, 120 gb hdd, nVidia GeForce 8200m, 8x DVD-DL Burner, 15.4" widescreen, Windows 7 Ultimate
V9 PS2 with clear blue fliptop& swapmagic 3.6
iPhone 3G 8GB OS 3.0 Jailbroken w/ MMS and Tethering Enabled
30gb Black Video iPod
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