Build 5840 Rtm

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Has build 5840 been released to the Tech beta or Msdn?
It just seems strange that it's out there on the torrents unless it's been
leaked internally by MSFT
 
Software will be leaked somehow, whether it was done by someone at MSFT,
someone that found the download link, or what ever.

Remember, though you may be able to get it on torrents, it still has no
activation code, so it is more or less useless.

Just my thought
 
Well, at least you can try it for 15 days without the code, just to see if
it works. Of course I believe they said that the new boot screen and other
things are not in that build, but rather in one of the recompilations later
that was not leaked, 5840.16389. Anyway, it is old anyway because they are
already on build 5920.16384.

Robert Firth
http://www.winvistainfo.org
 
If the 30 day period is going to end you also can run the following command:

rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows

(type exactly with the coma and : it's Case-SeNsItIVe!)

- this resets the Activation Timebomb to 0 and you get once again 30 days.
( no Joke ! )

This works at a minimum 1 time, in previous builds reported to work 3 times.

So you can run 5840 ( and perhaps newer builds ) for 2 or 3 months without
reformatting.

Do not try to change the Computers Bios Date - for this will result in a
"ActivationPeriod has expired / This Copy of Windows vista is not genuine /
Buy a new Product Key / Access Computer with reduced functionality" and all
those SPP gags.

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I have played with 5840 now since it is available and I really like the
speed and all the solved bugs.
Vista now seems in a very good shape and much apps that never did before
run, now do.
Alcohol,Daemon Tools, Nero, most Antiviral-Tools.

I am testing also the first Tweaking System and Gui-EnhancementsTools for
Vista on this Build and even they do what is expected.

Also very much old 16bit apps now run perfectly, tested for Example Office
4.2/ Office 95, Microsoft BOB ( anyone remembers ? ) - not, that I would
like to run those historic apps on Vista, but it's always good to know, that
in case I want to, it is possible.

What is annoying the most is that Winhelp32.exe is missing, so all older
apps cannot display any help-contents.

Vistas built in Help now says " that is by design..blahblah.. because the
old help doesn't fit MS Standards anymore..." Ignorance at its best - Why
couldn't they have both help formats - the Vista one to display all new
helpfiles and the winhel32 for the older ones.

If I remember correct there was a similar handling in Windows 3.x and
windows 95 help- but never such a bumper to exclude the Engine.

SBJ ( now on the 5744 machine )
 
Sascha said:
If the 30 day period is going to end you also can run the following
command:

rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows

(type exactly with the coma and : it's Case-SeNsItIVe!)

- this resets the Activation Timebomb to 0 and you get once again 30
days. ( no Joke ! )

This works at a minimum 1 time, in previous builds reported to work 3
times.

So you can run 5840 ( and perhaps newer builds ) for 2 or 3 months
without reformatting.

Do not try to change the Computers Bios Date - for this will result in a
"ActivationPeriod has expired / This Copy of Windows vista is not
genuine / Buy a new Product Key / Access Computer with reduced
functionality" and all those SPP gags.

Very good Sashie! I too like 5840 for it's speed and ability to run
lagecy apps.
THX
Frank
 
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