Kevin;
No one is likely to give away their key.
You need your own or do without.
Microsoft WILL be re-opening the CPP for RC1, soon (keep your eyes
open). Microsoft is sending this build for MILLIONS of others, as
they tell us.
This time, DO IT THE RIGHT WAY!!!
1) Register the email address you use in your email program with
Microsoft Connect (or with Microsoft Passport).
2) Go to the Microsoft Customer Preview Program site (it will probably
be
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview.mspx, unless
they change it.
3) Register for the CPP using the email address you registered with
Microsoft Connect (or with Microsoft Passport).
4) WAIT for the email from Microsoft containing your key (THIS TIME,
MAKE SURE you SAVE the email, PRINT IT OUT, and OTHERWISE keep it
SECURELY in a SAFE PLACE.) DON'T rely on your MEMORY, unless you want
to be HIT with a memory block JUST when you NEED the key. Do not under
any circumstances THROW this email away, or delete it!!!
Also, be sure to CHECK your Spam filtering, and MAKE sure the
@microsoft.com domain is in you SAFE SITES. And make sure you check
in Junk Mail folders BEFORE emptying them. Sometimes, the
@microsoft.com domain is not set to be a safe sender, resulting in
Spam filters either DELETING this email (if you have it set to simply
delete spam) or putting it in your Spam folder.
5) Or, you may PURCHASE the DVD for about $10 plus shipping (with
several shipping options). When the DVD arrives, it will CONTAIN the
CD key in the DVD case itself. It usually arrives within 10 business
days (or less).
I do advise you to PURCHASE the DVD, since the Akami servers are going
to be SLAMMED and may reset often, causing you to WASTE your bandwidth
when you have to re-download it because of a failure to get a good
burn caused by getting a bad download.
UNLESS your connection is (1) Broadband (2) and at LEAST 1.5mbps, do
NOT waste everyone else's time trying to download it. IN that case,
PURCHASE the DVD, and WAIT a few more days. It will pay dividends to
EVERYONE, especially to YOU.
ON a 1.5mpbs connection, it should take about 4-5 hrs of steady
downloading. Microsoft wants us to use the Akami Download manager,
but I don't advise this, since it seems buggy when the server is being
hit heavily. If the server is shaken out, your download throughput
speed should vary between 90KB/sec.-200KB/sec, and average ~170KB/sec
at that connection speed.
Also, don't hit the server immediately upon Microsoft publishing the
download information, since everyone else will be doing it then, and
Microsoft may take a few hours to get the downloading debugged.
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Donald L McDaniel
Please reply to the orignal thread.
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