Hi,

I'm unclear as to what you are asking. To reinstall cleanly you would need
to reinstall Vista, activate (probably by phone), then install SP1. You
cannot slipstream the service pack into the original installation media.
However, if you install Vista with the service pack integrated, you cannot
uninstall the service pack later.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
[url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
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My thoughts [url]http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com[/url]

"Huib" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> If i would decide to perform a full reinstallation + the SP1 DVD what is
> than the procedure.
>
> 1.Installation via the recovery partion or original DVD + product code
> introduction of course
>
> 2. Is a validation to Microsoft required? (nothing has been changed on
> their
> site)
>
> 3.Starting up the DVD with SP1....
> Here i am confused because i was reading on the site where i copied the
> full SP1 that first the original DVD has to be "activated" because not
> doing in it would be impossible to remove the SP1?
>
> Regards
> Huib
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