Vista Build 5308: Disable Activation

Contributed by William_Wilson

March 22, 2006

Tagged: Microsoft Vista

Have Vista Installed, but either don’t have a legitimate key, or your key is already in use? Extend your 12 days by disabling the activation!

open msconfig:
start\run and type msconfig

in the window move to the services tab.
uncheck both of the following:
Software Licensing Service and SL UI Notification Service

This will keep the activation from running and the second stops windows from continually reminding you that this has happened.
Your product is unregistered, but will continue to run.

I have noticed a slightly slower boot, but everything is a little slower with Vista, and it’s massive memory usage :)

Questions/Comments: william_a_wilson@hotmail.com
-William. §

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cozofdeath 2 years ago 1 point
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OMG...Its not gona be that easy in the final release is it???

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William_Wilson 2 years ago 1 point
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It will likely be combined with essential services in the official release to stop such an easy bypass, but for long term it can effect your ability to get updates as your Vista will now be listed as unregistered as well.
Though it's not completly true, still need to wait for the release and Vista updates to try and beat it... been done for XP :)

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Anonymous 1 year ago 1 point
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i know how to activate Windows Vista. :twisted: ::mrgreen:

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