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slimCODE, aka Martin Plante

Windows Vista Activation Woes

I'm having an anoying problem with the Windows Vista Activation. I was welcomed today by the activation tray icon. It requested me to enter a different license key.

I entered my key again, but got back to the same point. Clicking on the "Show me details" gives me this:

Indeed, I installed Vista twice. The first time, I tried an upgrade of XP, and though it worked (3 hours by the way), the WinFX runtimes were in a strange test and I couldn't install the Orcas extentions. I had to blast my partition and reinstall Vista from scratch.

What should I do? Will this kind of problems appear in the final release? I hope not!

Published Sunday, October 08, 2006 10:06 PM by slimcode
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slimcode said:

Haha, found the problem, and it's a funny one.

Turns out I was pressing the big and obvious "Active Windows online now". That's what the new "task dialog" is all about. It didn't work. But pressing the small "Next" button at the bottom succeeded! :)

October 9, 2006 12:03 AM

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