Vista - Tip on Activation

After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
Wait out the time given to activate it.
With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
reinstall it with no problem.
Then again...this is only my thought.

I kinda have to agree, the product gives you a 30 day grace period, its not
mandatory to activate like it was in XP after the 14th day.
--
Andre
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My Vista Quickstart Guide:
http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
> Wait out the time given to activate it.
> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
> reinstall it with no problem.
> Then again...this is only my thought.

+30 days more and 30 days more etc.


"Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I kinda have to agree, the product gives you a 30 day grace period, its not
>mandatory to activate like it was in XP after the 14th day.
> --
> Andre
> Blog: http://adacosta.spaces.live.com
> My Vista Quickstart Guide:
> http://adacosta.spaces.live.com/blog...3DB!9709.entry
> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED496FF6-6D25-44AF-8B43-E1AB8EB523F4@microsoft.com...
>> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
>> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
>> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
>> Wait out the time given to activate it.
>> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
>> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
>> reinstall it with no problem.
>> Then again...this is only my thought.
>
>

"poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ED496FF6-6D25-44AF-8B43-E1AB8EB523F4@microsoft.com...
> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
> Wait out the time given to activate it.
> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
> reinstall it with no problem.
> Then again...this is only my thought.

But... are you allowed to get all the updates without activation?

"DanR" <dhr22@sorrynospam.com> wrote in message news:u0T97RTdHHA.1216@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>
> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED496FF6-6D25-44AF-8B43-E1AB8EB523F4@microsoft.com...
>> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
>> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
>> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
>> Wait out the time given to activate it.
>> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
>> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
>> reinstall it with no problem.
>> Then again...this is only my thought.
>
> But... are you allowed to get all the updates without activation?

Yes.


-Michael

DanR wrote:
>
> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ED496FF6-6D25-44AF-8B43-E1AB8EB523F4@microsoft.com...
>> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
>> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
>> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with Vista.
>> Wait out the time given to activate it.
>> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
>> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
>> reinstall it with no problem.
>> Then again...this is only my thought.
>
> But... are you allowed to get all the updates without activation?
>

Yeah, but you gotta use Auto Updates to do it.

Alias

"Alias" <aka@masked&anonymous.cl> wrote in message
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> DanR wrote:
>>
>> "poatt" <poatt@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:ED496FF6-6D25-44AF-8B43-E1AB8EB523F4@microsoft.com...
>>> After some experience with Vista and reading alot of these post.
>>> I would suggest not to activate your Vista until you are completely sure
>>> that the system is stable with Vista. Or IF you are satisfied with
>>> Vista.
>>> Wait out the time given to activate it.
>>> With the hardware upgrade issues being connected to your activation of
>>> Vista. You may be glad you waited. Before activation you can install and
>>> reinstall it with no problem.
>>> Then again...this is only my thought.
>>
>> But... are you allowed to get all the updates without activation?
>>
>
> Yeah, but you gotta use Auto Updates to do it.
>
> Alias

Not true

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 01:17:07 -0500, Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin] wrote:

> I kinda have to agree, the product gives you a 30 day grace period, its not
> mandatory to activate like it was in XP after the 14th day.

And it doesn't annoy you with popups to activate every ten minutes like XP
does.

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:50:32 -0400, Chris Sidener wrote:


>
> Not true

I don't use autoupdate and everytime I resinstall XPSP2 now it only lets me
to get some updates and then it says i have to activate XP to get the rest
of them.

"Pipboy" <no@email.invalid> wrote
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:50:32 -0400, Chris Sidener wrote:
>> Not true
>
> I don't use autoupdate and everytime I resinstall XPSP2 now it only lets
> me
> to get some updates and then it says i have to activate XP to get the rest
> of them.

If the OS is activated and there are no problems with it, this should not be
happening. You are leaving out some details here. If you need help with it
post to an XP newsgroup.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]