Uncheck the box for automatic online activation during install.
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"techieguy" <techieguy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> In windows vista, I want to force the automatic activation to delay for
> the
> full 30 days. I need more than three days to familiarize myself with this
> software, and don't want to acivate it on my test machine. How do I do
> that?
>
> Glen