Vista activation crack
The use of pirated software is illegal. The following procedure is described purely for the purpose of education. Additionally, do not use this crack if you have already tried another, or have used the re-arming technique documented on Windows Secrets. This crack will stop the activation timer, permanently leaving the time left for you to activate your Vista at 30 days. Windows Update will continue to run normally.
- Start your PC and enter its BIOS setup
- Set your system date to 31 December 2099
- Save and Exit
- Re-start the PC from the Vista installation CD and follow the normal installation procedure
- Vista will install and after rebooting your PC, ask you to enter an account name and password
- Follow the on-screen instructions until the entire installation process completes
- Shut down Vista and re-start the PC, once again entering its BIOS settings
- Set the date back to the correct value
- Save and Exit the BIOS and continue booting in to Vista
- Download and unzip vistacrack.zip
- Right click on vistacrack.exe and select Properties
- Go to the Compatibility tab and select the Run this program as an administrator check box
- Close the properties window and double-click vistacrack.exe to run it
- Select Crack
- The crack process will start and the PC will reboot
- When Vista loads it will show a warning on the system tray about blocked programs, right click on the system tray icon in question and select to allow the program to run
- The warning will pop up a second time, click Allow
- The crack process will open and complete
- Select Finish
The crack is now done. To check whether it has worked, reboot your computer a final time and do the following:
- From the Start Menu, select Run
- Type slmgr.vbs -dlv and click OK
- Look at the last line of the results window (it can take several seconds for this window to pop up so just be patient), if it says the time remaining is 43200, the crack worked
Remember: the use of pirated software is illegal.