I'd guess higher?

There are some other activation cracks out there, but I myself haven't even tried out Vista. I heard the Vista iso for Dell's don't need to be activated. Their floating somewhere on the interwebs.

 

try using a different activation. also sometimes you just need to restart your computer a couple of times before it says that its genuine. if it still says it not activated check and see if your getting the updates and if its bringing up the message box telling you to activate now. my friends computer stated that is wasnt activated, and yet it was activated.

my number one recomendation is to not use vista because it is a horrible os. and to either stick with xp or use ubuntu linux.

 

Never tried the activator, but i tried the timerstop and it worked fine until i updated (which i knew it would, because i knew that a couple of the updates patched it, even before i downloaded them, i had read it on the internet.)

I'd suggest not recommending Vista to people, because from what i've read on the internet, most people have LOTS of problems with it, including me (ATI catalyst display driver kept crashing, firefox was bugged, stepmania didn't work, etc), and those who don't, or only have very few minor problems, are lucky. And even if they don't have problems with it, it's still a memory hog.

I'll switch to Vista when they get a service pack out and my computer gets a RAM/CPU upgrade. Until then, no thanks.
Oh, and i do have Linux on the same computer i tried Vista on, and it works fine with ATI card and official ATI drivers (not that i use linux a lot, )

 

I will never understand people.

On another note, I don't think microsoft better crack down too hard, as pirates are the only ones using Vista.

 

Besides everybody who has bought a PC at best buy or circuit city in the last 6 months, or the people who got it for free.....or the people who bought it because they wanted better games, security, and functionality

 

I do not know why someone would want to install vista at the moment. I got it with my new laptop. Its a good OS but still needs a lot of work. Just stick with XP.

 

It's because I have a strange card (Sapphire X800GTO2 AGP flashed into a ATI X850XT (detected as a PCI) to unlock the extra pipelines), I just really had a bad experience with Linux, I know how to install all of the wonderful apps since I went through about twelve different distros. Sabayon is my favorite, emerge is simply too amazing, but with the newer X11 it became too unstable because of my weird setup. I also want to be able to play UT2007 (and all of those games I purchased), and since no OpenGL support has been announced, it gave me another reason to switch to Windows. I went back to XP for a week before random memory errors started to emerge (lost my old partition to data corruption) and then switched to Vista, I haven't looked back. It's better than XP, for my setup. Sabayon is extremely fun to tinker with, but I need the compatibility and stability.

 

Why didnt you just get and already activated installatio?
Activation cracks sometimes dont work but you wont get any issues if its cracked at the installer stage. Thats what i did, no timedelay and no other type of crack. I have absolutely no errors or anything to suggest my vista is ultimate. I can use any windows service without warnings.
just wait untill they release another WGA tool.........

I fell for it in XP but i wont now

 

Someone was kind to help me on PM but sadly, after all the effort, I decided to just say "fuck it" and installed a Windows XP which is a chinese edition. Sadly there's no video drivers for XP version so if I go to the start and shut down bit, I'll see the green and red button for the shutdown/restart but nothing on the yellow button.