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Daniel Jameson
I tried the 30 day trial of Windows Vista (Ultimate if anyone cares). I
have been running it in a dual boot configuration with my work-a-day Windows
XP installation. I determined that at this point there is insufficient
third party support, so I decided to stay with Windows XP for now.
Yesterday I booted into Vista and I got the "trial period over - you need to
activate" dialog box when I tried to log in. There were at least three
routes to activate, and the choice of using reduced functionality. Why is
there not a choice to uninstall? That *is* a logical choice at the end of a
trial period. Could it be Microsoft's infinite arrogance?
So, I've seen the instructions for getting rid of Vista folders from XP by
taking ownership, but how do I get rid of Vista's boot loader? Or, at
least, how do I change the dual-boot timeout to zero seconds so that I don't
have to wait for my XP to boot, now that I can't get into Vista to change
it?
Does anyone know how to get "slmgr -rearm" to work once Vista's 30 day trial
has timed-out and you can't get to a command prompt? I tried it from the
command prompt in WinRE (from Vista install disc), but it didn't work
because some COM object couldn't be found .
Thanks,
Dan
have been running it in a dual boot configuration with my work-a-day Windows
XP installation. I determined that at this point there is insufficient
third party support, so I decided to stay with Windows XP for now.
Yesterday I booted into Vista and I got the "trial period over - you need to
activate" dialog box when I tried to log in. There were at least three
routes to activate, and the choice of using reduced functionality. Why is
there not a choice to uninstall? That *is* a logical choice at the end of a
trial period. Could it be Microsoft's infinite arrogance?
So, I've seen the instructions for getting rid of Vista folders from XP by
taking ownership, but how do I get rid of Vista's boot loader? Or, at
least, how do I change the dual-boot timeout to zero seconds so that I don't
have to wait for my XP to boot, now that I can't get into Vista to change
it?
Does anyone know how to get "slmgr -rearm" to work once Vista's 30 day trial
has timed-out and you can't get to a command prompt? I tried it from the
command prompt in WinRE (from Vista install disc), but it didn't work
because some COM object couldn't be found .
Thanks,
Dan