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[Harry The Cat]

To anyone who is currently running VISTA:

I just got this from a buddy in Texas. Haven't gone through all the references yet. I am about to install VISTA on one of my computers.....a Dell 2400...to use as a testing place and to see how it works. The old
"learning curve" thing.
If these things noted in these articles are for real, I'm going to be VERY leery of even taking the first step
in installing.
The articles in question are HERE.
I guess Smokey and JRam are the only ones I am aware of that are running Vista.

[Smokey]

This sounds bad Harry but I'm sure Microsoft will have a hot fix released soon. The beta testers tested the vista builds for over a year but the one thing that they couldn't test was the activation. Microsoft is obsessed with figuring out a way to beat the hackers but that will never happen. They should just give up. There is too many hackers that do nothing but try to hack these operating systems.

A 15 year old hacker has already figured out how to create a Vista Product Code generator. This is going to cause lots of problems for Microsoft because the product codes that it generates are the same product codes that Microsoft's customers are buying off the shelves.

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[jram]

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I guess Smokey and JRam are the only ones I am aware of that are running Vista

I wish I was, but I'm not. Hackers spend all their time trying to hack, they never will stop it. Microsoft spends time trying to stop the hackers, they say they can't get any updates, well guess what, the machine I'm on now has SP2 with no updates and I consider myself safe.
I'm afraid the hackers are going to cause Microsoft to put a keylogger in versions of their OS when users update, they look for any excuse to mess with the user.

[Harry The Cat]

Thanks to the both of you. Good info from smart people......as usual!

[Jim Dinger]

Hey folks,that brute force key gen is a fake,the author himself said it was,I havent tried as I have a different way of activating Vista(I use it on my laptop for work and it hasnt gave me any problems(the activation,vista just hogs my system down P4 @ 3.8 with 2 gigs of DDR) Any questions just ask and I will try to help and if anyone knows for sure that the brute forcer works.PLEASE let me know. Thanks.


EDIT: Heres a link where they kinda discuss it,Mixed reactions to this so I dont really know......http://keznews.com/2431_vista_brute_force_keygen

[Smokey]

You're right Jim, I tried brute force for over a week after my post and it didn't work for me. What's you're trick?

[jram]

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[Berton]

The "3-days" thing quoted on the linked-page is present in WinXP. When I did a couple of re-installs/over the top of WinXP it gave only the 3 days for re-activation instead of the 30 days of a new install.

I have Vista Ultimate on a Dell Dimension 8400 and Vista Business on a custom computer. Only issue with the Dell is the onboard sound, no driver for Vista but using a process of decompressing the WinXP driver then instead of installing using the Driver Update from Device Manager got it working. Vista picked up everything else including the add-in Modem that WinXP didn't have built-in drivers for. And having 1GB RAM on both was important as well as a 512MB video on the Dell and 256MB video on the custom.