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Activating Vista from non-admin

As I've said, I'm running with Vista as my main OS. Since I installed I've been having problems activating Vista which was getting worrying that I only had 8 days left.

Unfortunately the activation dialog has only been appearing when I have been logged on  as a normal user. . It has requested elevated permissions to run so I authenticate with admin credentials but still get Access Denied so I realised that I maybe needed to log on as a proper admin session and run the activation..

I searched on the web but it all the hits mentioned license.exe or licence.exe (there was disagreement over the actual name) which wasn't on my machine. It turns out that that file was a beta one thing and isn't part of the CTP build I'm running.

Finally Jabez Gan posted an answer to my newsgroup question saying that the activation dialog executable is ...

(drum roll)

SLUI.EXE

09/29/2005 2:50 PM | Comments [2835] | #Vista

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