Vista activation backup

Search titles only. Search Advanced search…. New posts. Search forums. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. Bearing in mind that his backup will have his activated OS, all his utilities, applications, games, all round preferences just the way he likes, all restored with a few mouse clicks should disaster ever happen.

Well the whole idea is to trash the existing Vista install in favour of I'll probally get flamed Windows XP for now Not all my work related software works on it etc etc But if I miss Vista to much, or when I choose to return to Vista anyway I don't want to have to ring MS and give my reasons why I've reinstalled. I've already had to do this once when Vista cried about reactivating after it installed some driver.

When you restore a complete PC backup, the destination partition is wiped clean, then the restoration image is restored back onto the cleaned partition. My restore point is before any third party drivers are applied, just the default Microsoft drivers are installed - as it would if you had done a "manual" clean install, so when I restore my image and install the latest drivers, as far as Vista is concerned those drivers are installed for this first time.

By doing it this way, I save hours of fiddling and configuring the basics of Windows and it takes minutes to update a restored install with the latest drivers. You can reactive the same machine as many times as you want no problem, so I don't see why you'd want to do this. I had to call MS after reinstalling Vista Business once. Not a hard process, just a PITA.

Could've been because I got my copy from the Powertogether promotion, not quite sure. Microsoft makes us, the genuine consumers, carry the burden of piracy behind our backs. Also, you cannot restore to a different version of Windows from which you backed up from. It should however, work if you want to switch between 32bit and 64bit versions. A folder called Windows Activation Backup will be created in the same folder as the program with the tokens.

Keep this folder safe as without it, you cannot restore any saved activations. If you want to backup Office , click the button at the bottom and click the backup button again. When at the desktop, run Advanced Tokens Manager and there should be the button to restore in place of backup. Click Restore Activation to begin the process of restoring the tokens.

After a few minutes the success window should appear. If it says not activated, you may need to reboot. I had a Toshiba laptop that my father bought in It had to come with Windows 7 preinstalled and Windows XP on a DVD as a recovery solution, but I found there was neither a Windows 7 installation nor a recovery partition.

The XP existing installation had all the Toshiba apps and drivers. So I downloaded the OS from Microsoft with a good tool that gave me the link, then I installed it, after doing backups, repartitioning etc.

I had no problems, except for the wireless card driver I had to download and install manually. Once installed I ran the tool. The process of license installation began, but after installing the license the tool gave an error popup.

The process cannot continue. Luckily the sticker on the bottom of the laptop was still there and readable, so I inserted the product key written on it and at last I activated Windows 7.

Maybe it was a problem of my computer, but I reported you this perhaps bug to help you improve this really useful tool. This is a great disappointment to me as I suffer from a pre-installed Win 7 that Toshiba did not provide me with a Windows Product Key for. This little program looked like an efficient solution. I hope this site has not been hacked or hijacked. Thanks for the info. No, there is nothing wrong with the file, it creates false positives because of what it does. Of course you are free not to use it of you feel uneasy.

That tool has been around since and has been used by millions of people without issue. Yet the AVs on VT love to classify it as malicious without really knowing why. The other FPs are simply created by using the AutoIt scripting language, some AV software mis-classifies a lot of perfectly legit software because it was created in AutoIt. If you could point me to anything sinister you think might be going on, I will be happy to answer your questions. It only uses a built in Microsoft tool Slmgr.

Heh, you almost sound like one of those crackers and warez group….. Developers are fighting a losing battle with places like VirusTotal because they give the wrong impression programs are unsafe. The scanners used for these services are command line versions which produce different results to the desktops versions. Read about the troubles the famous Nir Sofer of Nirsoft has had with false positives on his tools over the years to see the problem. Ay yes, I know NirSoft….

You would think so but the definitions in VirusTotal and those in your antivirus can be vastly different and produce very different results, as explained in the VirusTotal FAQs. These sites should be used as a pointer or extra piece of information, the results should not be taken as fact, which is what a lot of people wrongly do.

Thank you. They maybe one out there but I never made one because there was no call for it at the time. Your best bet might be to look over at MyDigitalLife. Thanks to writers like you and the age of the blogs. Microsoft secrets are expose and less money they are getting while they were trying to squeeze every penny they can from unsuspecting customers.

Unfortunately in our society the unique thing that really matter for people is money. It ultimately resolves to raymondcc. Great post i have really been looking for this tool for my laptop. But though i use vista,i still make backups online oftenly with safecopybackup. This because i know anything can happen to my laptop and i may lose my files and i also fear data recovery because they are expensive and so costly.