Hello,
This should work.
It is listed in the volume step by step guide but should apply to retail
activation as well:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/win...n/volact1.mspx
To disable automatic activation attempts, change the registry value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\
CurrentVersion\SL\Activation\Manual to 1.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]
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|>Thank you for the speedy response. Is there any way of doing that
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|>running through the installation process again?
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|>"techieguy" wrote:
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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
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