Comments on: Windows Vista wants to be reinstalled just to activate

By: simonthegeek

simonthegeek — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:52:38 +0000

Ummmmm…. Kutsia??? I think you might have gone a little off topic there. Are you drunk by any chance?

By: Kutsia

Kutsia — Mon, 21 May 2012 19:42:56 +0000

it requires a pneitum 4 with 512 mb of ram. I have it running very fast, faster that 3.6 on a pneitum 3 with 256mb of ram. 3.6 r were only 128 mb of ram. I figured the recommended system requirements would double between 3.6 and 4, but not quadruple. If I had read them before hand I would not have bothered installing firefox 4. I think you are turning off many people by making them so high, and that you did not actually test the minimum system specs but just guessed. You realize that the system specs may be dependent partially on the system specs of the os. So vista and windows 7 will run much higher than xp and 2000, or win9x with kernelx.I am running ubuntu with the light lxde desktop so my system reqirements are lower than someone running it with the default gnome desktop.

By: Shawn Hendrickson

Shawn Hendrickson — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:27:49 +0000

Thanks a lot for the information. I was ctrl-alt-del to work and the services wouldn’t work in safe-mode. You can get to cmd.exe by tapping the shift key until the sticky keys message comes up and then click the link to change it.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:39:13 +0000

Having this same issue, tried to follow steps but unable to run the slsvc service from within safe mode! And unable to boot into safe mode with networking, any ideas around this, also the vbs script saya acces is denied even though running from admin command proplt, maybe because the service is not running in safe mode?

By: Madalina

Madalina — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:31:14 +0000

I had the same problem and I have fixed it using the same thing (cmd…bla bla). Do you have any idea why this type of error occurs so that I will know what to avoid later?

10x

By: David

David — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:40:23 +0000

Just after I wrote the message above I found the “proper” way to revalidate Windows in this article:

http://www.tipandtrick.net/2008/windows-vista-0×80070426-activation-service-not-started-or-validation-not-genuine-error/

All the messages have now gone!

Thank you again

David

By: David

David — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:10:40 +0000

This activation issue has caused many many headaches, so I want to thank you for this invaluable help!

I had to roll back to an earlier session (using rstrui) and was then able to carry on from step 5.

However, I now get a message at the bottom right of the desktop:
Windows Vista (TM)
Build 6000
This copy of windows is not genuine

!!!!!! Unbelievable! This is a brand new laptop purchased from a large chain of stores…

If you know how to get rid of that, thank you in advance…

David

By: Willie W. "Jeff" Jefferson, II

Willie W. "Jeff" Jefferson, II — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:56:22 +0000

Thanks for the fix. To eliminate having to go in to safe mode click on the link at the bottom of the error message that states, “How do I restore ……”. This will bring up the help and support menu. In the search box type “open internet explorer” and click search. About 3 or 4 links down will be a link that says “open internet explorer”. Click on this link. This will take you to a page that displays instructions on how to open internet explorer from the Start Button in Vista. Look above this message and there will be a link that you can click and it will open “internet explorer”. You can then follow the instructions from #5 above. Again, thanks for the fix!!! My problem started with the 0x0000c1f5 and ended with this error. System is up and online. It took me 4 days to crunch it out but it’s done!!!

Thanks

Jeff