Ultimate purchase

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Diane K

I have Vista Ultimate on my system, but my trial is about to expire. It's my
understanding it won't be available for purchase until the end of the month.
What happens when my 30 day trial expires? Will the system quit working?
 
Diane K said:
I have Vista Ultimate on my system, but my trial is about to expire.
It's my understanding it won't be available for purchase until the
end of the month. What happens when my 30 day trial expires? Will the
system quit working?
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What 30 day trial ?
If you mean you acquired a copy without a product key then that is NOT
a trail version. That is just an unlicensed product.
Failure to activate within the specified period of time puts you Out
of Tolerance
See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925582
For the impact of Reduced Functionality Mode if your product is out of
tolerance.
 
Sorry...I guess I wasn't thinking straight. (I was thinking of the Office
trial). The Vista I have is the RC2 that came with beta testing which I just
got around to installing a couple of weeks ago. It occasionally pops up
prompting me to activate it but I can't find my product key. I guess I'll
call MS.
 
Diane K said:
Sorry...I guess I wasn't thinking straight. (I was thinking of the
Office trial). The Vista I have is the RC2 that came with beta
testing which I just got around to installing a couple of weeks ago.
It occasionally pops up prompting me to activate it but I can't find
my product key. I guess I'll call MS.
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If you are a member of the Technical Beta Program - then their are no
more keys for RC2 available as the product has been released and if
you submitted enough bugs you should have been notified of the options
to get your RTM product and key.
If you are on the Customer Preview Program again no keys are available
as the product has released. It is available on TechNet and MSDN and
will be available retail at the end of Jan.
So I doubt ringing anyone for a key for a pre release version of a
product that has now released will do much good.
Sorry.
 
Best to start planning what you want to do for the future. You can buy a
full version of whatever version of Vista you want to move forward with,
reinstall your previous OS, and either buy the allowable version of Vista or
stay with your old OS. You can at least use Windows Easy Transfer to help
move from RC2 to a new version of Vista.
 
run command prompt as an administrator
(right click CMD and run as
Administrator). Type in slmgr -rearm wait for the command to complete and
reboot, not sure if this works without a key being entered, I sent you an
e-mail without the "_nospam_" if this is a good address.
 
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