The Gang of Five
Howdy, everyone!

As you know, the forum has been fighting spammers and bots for years. We have seen our fair share of "Custom Kitchens UK", scammy Internet hosting companies, and bots trying to send us to a business's homepage. But after fighting the tidal wave of spam for so many years, the admins had a persistent thought: what if the spammers are right? Not in terms of posting nonsense links and trying to scam our users, but in trying to make money through our unique platform?

Well, thanks to the helpful counsel of Taunt, we have finally decided to move the forum in a new direction. Please see his important post on the matter in this topic

Vista Vista Vista

Clawandfang · 8 · 1838
« previous next »
Pages: 1

Clawandfang

  • Petrie
  • *
    • Posts: 978
    • View Profile
on: August 31, 2008, 05:12:57 AM
Recently Vista has deactivated itself on me, and the key on my laptop's casing isn't recognised as valid. I've backed everything I need to up by deliberatly bombing it out and then booting up in Safe Mode so no worries there. I've tried http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en but that refuses to do anything and I'm at a bit of a loss. Any help would be...well...helpful. Otherwise I'll take it down to the local computer shop and get them to have a look at it.

Thanks in advance.

Clawandfang

  • Petrie
  • *
    • Posts: 978
    • View Profile
Reply #1 on: August 31, 2008, 01:16:58 PM
Apologies for double-posting, but I've fixed the problem with the help of an automated 'phone service. Still got a "This copy of Windows is not genuine" watermark in the corner but hey.

landbeforetimelover

  • Member+
  • Littlefoot
  • *
    • Posts: 8495
  • Littlefoot
    • View Profile
    • http://www.thelandbeforetime.org
Reply #2 on: August 31, 2008, 01:38:52 PM
Yeah, about 20% of the time my clients come in with new vista machines that say they're illegal.  It's just stupid.  That's why when I buy a copy of vista, I put an illegal one on my machines.  They deactivate less often than legal ones. :rolleyes:

DarkHououmon

  • Member+
  • Littlefoot
  • *
    • Posts: 7069
    • View Profile
    • http://bluedramon.deviantart.com
Reply #3 on: August 31, 2008, 02:52:46 PM
Hmm. I never heard of this happening with Vista before. I guess I should keep my eyes open with my computer then.

Kor

  • The Circle
  • The Gang of Five
  • *
    • Posts: 30034
    • View Profile
Reply #4 on: August 31, 2008, 04:03:13 PM
Maybe another reason for some to flush Vista down the toilet and try another os like Xp, or Linux.   I wonder what the Angry Video Game Nerd would do if he did a video about Vista.

Clawandfang

  • Petrie
  • *
    • Posts: 978
    • View Profile
Reply #5 on: August 31, 2008, 06:47:17 PM
Hehe...I just installed Vista SP 1 and it completely screwed up my laptop. I was forced into performing a system restore. I had hopes for that service pack....

Petrie.

  • Hatchling
  • *
    • Posts: 0
  • It's good to be the king!
    • View Profile
Reply #6 on: August 31, 2008, 07:41:44 PM
I've stopped Windows updates altogether because they break things in my laptop.  One update fries my dvd drive. :rolleyes:  Its so hard to know what each item will do when you mass install and I don't have time to go through all this stuff one by one.

Yeah, I know, Mr. Security and "I keep my computer lean" isn't doing updates but it seems I'm running into more trouble than its worth.

landbeforetimelover

  • Member+
  • Littlefoot
  • *
    • Posts: 8495
  • Littlefoot
    • View Profile
    • http://www.thelandbeforetime.org
Reply #7 on: August 31, 2008, 08:45:28 PM
What I hate most about vista is when you disable UAC, you can't get rid of the d***** notification that it's turned off unless you turn off notification for EVERYTHING. <_<

Pages: 1