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IIRC it's around $60.

matty just said via PM, damn nice price indeed, Would go along nicely with my Legal Office 2007 Ultimate package at that price

get the Dell version of vista (then you use windows update to make it so it's not invalid OEM key)

* roflmao456 runs from the hammer

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Originally posted by ipab
IIRC it's around $60.

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Found the exact price if anyone cares , it's $45.

i still wouldn't pay for it

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Originally posted by ipab

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Originally posted by ipab
IIRC it's around $60.

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Found the exact price if anyone cares , it's $45.

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i want one...now...

The preactivated ultimate copy floating around the internet featured a sort of "hack" which I was afraid would be fixed with SP1. It's not actually preactivated what the guy has done is injected a weird grub bootloader which resets something before Vista's loader boots up to make Vista always think it's activated. And yet SP1 didn't fix this! So much for fixing the activation hacks

That's how they are pre-activated and it's not grub it's a one of a few new ones constructed to load vista up, someone I know though is in a team working on a grub based one which may be better for multi booting and maybe even bootcamp on macs

Yeah it is grub because when I saw this weird "grldr" file in my C: drive I googled what it was and it said it was a grub loader. Then I searched through the install disk found the cmd file which was executed at the end of installation and it had details about placing menu.lst. Soo
And it's not technically "activated" as I said - because when you remove the grldr file Vista says 30 days remaining to activate it. I would think "pre-activating" means activating it and then injecting the registry tweaks changed files etc back into the installation so that it's already activated when you install it (or having some sort of cmd file to run at the end of installation which activates it for you) or something else along those lines.

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Originally posted by Aardvark
Yeah it is grub because when I saw this weird "grldr" file in my C: drive I googled what it was and it said it was a grub loader. Then I searched through the install disk found the cmd file which was executed at the end of installation and it had details about placing menu.lst. Soo
And it's not technically "activated" as I said - because when you remove the grldr file Vista says 30 days remaining to activate it. I would think "pre-activating" means activating it and then injecting the registry tweaks changed files etc back into the installation so that it's already activated when you install it (or having some sort of cmd file to run at the end of installation which activates it for you) or something else along those lines.

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yeah but vista wga is different to xp so this emulated bios or a physically patched bios is a good way that it works for everyone. there are about 4 different known activation types that use this bootloader method. paradox, gkend, vistaloader and some other the name escapes me.