I thought that was the default Darrell, in any install of RTM/ and possibly
prior builds prior to activation.
CH
""Darrell Gorter[MSFT]"" <Darrellg@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
> without
> |>running through the installation process again?
> |>
> |>
> |>"techieguy" wrote:
> |>
> |>> 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
> |>
>