Ok here goes, I have 2 hard disks in my machine (home built)
The newer one is faster (16 meg cache and NCQ) I wanted to run vista from
that disk.
So I installed it and all went swimmingly until I rebooted (I had to
activate over the phone as my previous install was done online) then I got a
message saying (rather annoyingly, may I add, as this is a legal copy bought
by myself) stating "You may be a victim of counterfeiting" I do the
activation process in IE and it comes back as valid and as if to say "Were
sorry we ever doubted you, loyal customer"
BUT THEN it still refuses to run aero and nothing works, reboot, do it again
and still nothing works and still it says Im a victim of counterfeiting.
What do I do?
I dont have a phone anymore to reactivate a clean install, so thats out of
the question, Do I contact MS about this, is this a screwup on their end, or
do I (like a lot of things with MS, it depends on the weather) just need to
keep trying on a cold dark stormy night?
Yours truly, Mark

You have NO phone - at all!!!???

How can you survive. What if you need an ambulance or police assistance?

Just pick up the phone and dial the number when it is presented to you. Wait
for a live person.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"MrMe01" <MrMe01@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2AEEFA25-B88C-46C6-ADB2-FBC6C887D53E@xxxxxx

> Ok here goes, I have 2 hard disks in my machine (home built)
> The newer one is faster (16 meg cache and NCQ) I wanted to run vista from
> that disk.
> So I installed it and all went swimmingly until I rebooted (I had to
> activate over the phone as my previous install was done online) then I got
> a
> message saying (rather annoyingly, may I add, as this is a legal copy
> bought
> by myself) stating "You may be a victim of counterfeiting" I do the
> activation process in IE and it comes back as valid and as if to say "Were
> sorry we ever doubted you, loyal customer"
> BUT THEN it still refuses to run aero and nothing works, reboot, do it
> again
> and still nothing works and still it says Im a victim of counterfeiting.
> What do I do?
> I dont have a phone anymore to reactivate a clean install, so thats out of
> the question, Do I contact MS about this, is this a screwup on their end,
> or
> do I (like a lot of things with MS, it depends on the weather) just need
> to
> keep trying on a cold dark stormy night?
> Yours truly, Mark

You can activate Vista by performing the following:

1. Click on the Start button and in the Start Search box type in: slui.exe 4
2. Press the Enter key on your keyboard.
3. Select your Country.
4. Follow the instructions for phone activation.
5. Once completed, restart your computer.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"MrMe01" wrote:

Ok here goes, I have 2 hard disks in my machine (home built)
The newer one is faster (16 meg cache and NCQ) I wanted to run vista from
that disk.
So I installed it and all went swimmingly until I rebooted (I had to
activate over the phone as my previous install was done online) then I got a
message saying (rather annoyingly, may I add, as this is a legal copy bought
by myself) stating "You may be a victim of counterfeiting" I do the
activation process in IE and it comes back as valid and as if to say "Were
sorry we ever doubted you, loyal customer"
BUT THEN it still refuses to run aero and nothing works, reboot, do it again
and still nothing works and still it says Im a victim of counterfeiting.
What do I do?
I dont have a phone anymore to reactivate a clean install, so thats out of
the question, Do I contact MS about this, is this a screwup on their end, or
do I (like a lot of things with MS, it depends on the weather) just need to
keep trying on a cold dark stormy night?
Yours truly, Mark

Or borrow someones Cell phone, I hear about 3 billion persons own one, they
are not that scarce.
--
Andre
Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uSsRWAGKIHA.1204@xxxxxx

> You have NO phone - at all!!!???
>
> How can you survive. What if you need an ambulance or police assistance?
>
> Just pick up the phone and dial the number when it is presented to you.
> Wait for a live person.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
>
>
> "MrMe01" <MrMe01@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2AEEFA25-B88C-46C6-ADB2-FBC6C887D53E@xxxxxx

>> Ok here goes, I have 2 hard disks in my machine (home built)
>> The newer one is faster (16 meg cache and NCQ) I wanted to run vista from
>> that disk.
>> So I installed it and all went swimmingly until I rebooted (I had to
>> activate over the phone as my previous install was done online) then I
>> got a
>> message saying (rather annoyingly, may I add, as this is a legal copy
>> bought
>> by myself) stating "You may be a victim of counterfeiting" I do the
>> activation process in IE and it comes back as valid and as if to say
>> "Were
>> sorry we ever doubted you, loyal customer"
>> BUT THEN it still refuses to run aero and nothing works, reboot, do it
>> again
>> and still nothing works and still it says Im a victim of counterfeiting.
>> What do I do?
>> I dont have a phone anymore to reactivate a clean install, so thats out
>> of
>> the question, Do I contact MS about this, is this a screwup on their end,
>> or
>> do I (like a lot of things with MS, it depends on the weather) just
>> need to
>> keep trying on a cold dark stormy night?
>> Yours truly, Mark

>