I dunno if its like illegal..... so you guys tell me. But theres a simple "hack" (not really a hack) to let you run vista indefinitely on the trial period that is simple to do, and work perfectly. It freezes the countdown clock on the trial period.
Please advise on the general consensus of legality prior to the release of any info...
If you want to run vista.......
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240Knightrider
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Microsoft has an agreement with my school to provide ALOT of free software to all students. Vista Business is one of them. Its only 6628 MB download
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same here, my college has the MSDN thing for students. So prior to graduation i downloaded every bit of free software i could get my hands on.
To the OP, yeah it might work but it's not quite legal. There's an easy method of setting up a VMware server that acts like the microsoft authentication server to self authenticate the OS.(it might not work anymore, but it did when vista first released) Although the big negative with this setup is you can't take the machine on the internet then.
To the OP, yeah it might work but it's not quite legal. There's an easy method of setting up a VMware server that acts like the microsoft authentication server to self authenticate the OS.(it might not work anymore, but it did when vista first released) Although the big negative with this setup is you can't take the machine on the internet then.
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The Count
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Right. Freezing the eval countdown clock pretty much does it all, easily. And its easier than doing VMware. (I tried that to try to run OSX, didn't work)
I do have OSX, XP, and Vista all on here now (yes I have the Apple software developer thingy), the drawback with OSX is I can't get my hardware to connect to the internets.
I do have OSX, XP, and Vista all on here now (yes I have the Apple software developer thingy), the drawback with OSX is I can't get my hardware to connect to the internets.
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Re: (The Count)
I have that same problem with OSX on my AMD system. Everything else runs great, except no internet.The Count wrote:Right. Freezing the eval countdown clock pretty much does it all, easily. And its easier than doing VMware. (I tried that to try to run OSX, didn't work)
I do have OSX, XP, and Vista all on here now (yes I have the Apple software developer thingy), the drawback with OSX is I can't get my hardware to connect to the internets.
Look through torrents and whatnot for the "Timerlock" program. Freezes the countdown clock. Theres even another one that lets you validate the software.