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[guinness]

Well I downloaded an activated copy of vista and then did the system performance test to see what kind of numbers my rig would pull, damn shit came unactivated, tried a repair, shit was still unactivated. I just got so damn aggravated I purchased a legit copy. Also if you download a copy of vista and it's been trimmed down (services removed, etc etc...) it won't update, if you do manage to update it it will likely crash then you'll /facepalm.

I just decided not to mess with it anymore, now other stuff... I can't say so much for, other than online games that require unique keys, I still buy those.

even trimmed OS can still be updated.plus if you're messing with windows,you can get serial keys and make it genuine microsoft without a problem.it doesn't update because it's not labeled with microsoft's bumper sticker that says "genuine microsoft product" and the update .exe has been removed from the folder(s).you can always go in and manually put it back in to get it updateable again.

[Allshow97]

even trimmed OS can still be updated.plus if you're messing with windows,you can get serial keys and make it genuine microsoft without a problem.it doesn't update because it's not labeled with microsoft's bumper sticker that says "genuine microsoft product" and the update .exe has been removed from the folder(s).you can always go in and manually put it back in to get it updateable again.

I'm aware of how windows update works, and it wasn't due to the update files being removed, WSUS knew that it was a trimmed version and could not update the required components to apply the patches (due to software trimmings).