Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vista. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

How to skip Windows Vista reduced functionality mode


I installed Windows Vista before a month. I am not using it very often, because I am using Gentoo in most time.
Last time when I tried to start it, the Windows Activation screen appear.
WTF, I must activate now?
But you can still use your computer, you can click
"Access your computer with reduced functionality
This will also allow you to buy a product key online"
They want from me to buy a key online, forgot I don't have money for Windows, and I don't want to spent it for.
I clicked on this button, and my default browser starts. It was FireFox because, I was made it default before that. And what now, I have only browser with nothing other.
Just my first try to do something worked. I tried to start gaim, I type the path in the FireFox address bar
file:///c:/Program%20Files/Gaim
and clicked on the gaim.exe, save file window appear and I saved it on the same location, then double clicked on the FireFox Downloads list and gaim starts.
The next step of course was to try the same with explorer.exe. I made the same with it
file:///c:/Windows/explorer.exe

and after that start menu and the desktop were loaded.



Perfect, not so reduced mode yet, now I can search for some Windows Vista activation crack :).

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Install Fest: Mac OS X, Windows Vista and FreeBSD in the night

I decide to not sleep tonight, and instead try to install some operation systems. Something like home night install fest ;)
First i try  to install Mac OS X x86.
I used this release
Mac-OS-X-10.4.7-AMD.Intel-(JaS)-ISO
I am not giving you a link, you know where to find it.
The installation was very easy. I made some screenshots of the installation and will upload the here, but first have to take it from my photo camera.
The installation complete successful without any problems. The problem come after that. It doesn't boot. I add it to my GRUB config
title=Mac OS X
root (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
it started to boot, but dieing at the beginning and nothing happen. Maybe something in my hardware is not compatible, but the main requrement is SSE2 or SSE3, and i got SSE2 on my Sempron 2800+. I don't know, maybe i will have more success withe some next version.

After that i install Windows Vista. The installtion was easy than older windows version.
Before the end of the installation i get BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). WTF? I expected RSOD (Red Screen Of Death). I restart a couple of times, try to boot in safe mode. But the windows gave me error "The installation can not be compleated in safe mode". After these restarts i don't know how, but the BSOD disappear and the installation continued and complete.
Here is the result



The next one was FreeBSD 6.1
i had no success again with FreeBSD, it die in the beginning with some strange error for uhub0.
I have to ask in some bsd forum or in freenode. The last time when i trying to install it, the hard disk was the problem, but i change this hard disk. I had success with freebsd only on vmware.