Microsoft's new strategy to fight pirated Vista and XP

Microsoft revealed new strategies to fight pirated version of XP and Vista..
It replaces the background with a blackscreen and more..

Recently i installed Service pack 1 on my system..(vista)
An you know what, as it was not genuine..the system was doomed..
The system says that its not genuine..
So after every 60 Minutes the background screen goes all black.
No matter how many times you set up the wallpaper..
And also at the corner it shows a small watermark text..
which Microsoft calls a ‘persistent desktop notification.’

It is to make people to buy more of Vista systems as the sales weren't as good as expected.
Fo me Vista has been so annoying..and i switched back to XP...and linux..
A good move for Microsoft...But i don't believe that would make people buy authenticated copy..As if they wanted they would have already purchased that and wouldnt have gone with a pirated version.

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Full codec package for Vista

This intelligent codec software package has all the codecs you will ever need on you Vista machine. Codecs have been a problem for most users at one time or another. This is because there has never been an 'out of the box' working solution that the average computer user could install and just have everything work properly from the beginning.

The installer will automatically remove most other popular codec releases from your computer before installing this concise yet comprehensive package. You won't need to make any adjustments or tweaks to enjoy your media content immediately. Windows Media Player and Vista's Media Center will instantly recognize all your files as playable.

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Activate WIndows Vista

A simple trick that let's you use Vista infinitely..

Registry Instructions for SkipRearm

1. Preliminary experiment, check the activation expiry date with the command: slmgr -xpr
2. Launch Regedit. Click the Start Orb and write regedit and click on it.
   
3. Navigate to this path:
   ** HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SL
4. Double-click SkipRearm and change the value to 1.
5. Note: this registry hack does not make any sense on a machine which has already been activated!
6. Now remember to run the 30 day extension command: slmgr -rearm
7. Restart the machine. After it reboots, run slmgr -xpr and check the expiry date.
8. Check the registry setting SkipRearm, slmgr resets the value to zero.

Screen Shot of SkipRearm

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