Hi Huib,

Activation was probably accomplished immediately as setup finished. This
would be the norm, the prompt comes up shortly after the initial logon.
Whether or not you activated immediately would not prevent downloading and
installing updates.

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Best of Luck,

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

"Huib" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hallo,
> Thanks for the reply.
> The point is that a few months ago i performed a full reinstall but as far
> as i remember i didn't do any reactivation towards Windows.
> I could immediately download all updates again... (that is the reason of
> my confusion).
>
> regards
> Huib
> "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> schreef in bericht
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>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> [url]http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/[/url]
>> Windows help - [url]www.rickrogers.org[/url]
>> 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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