Clean Vista install WITH NO ACTIVATION

[mujjuman]

if i dont have the Vista DVD i cannot do this, correct?

[orev]

You will need the "Anytime Upgrade" DVD, which cames along with many laptops. You can also buy it from Amazon or other places for less than $10.

[chatte]

Fujitsu, worked like a charm, thanks

PS shouldn't this be a sticky for all laptops?

[stallen]

Fujitsu, worked like a charm, thanks

PS shouldn't this be a sticky for all laptops?

It should be a sticky in all the "Notebook Manufacturers" threads. I'm getting tired of referring everyone to this thread.

[littleasian]

workeddd for me!!!!

gj ^^

[orev]

OK, I believe I have resolved the issues with 64 bit Vista, and have updated the release to beta2. The download link is on the main page.

Please let me know of successes and failures! Thanks.

[u4hkn]

It worked perfectly on my dv9500t with 64-bit Vista. Thanks Orev!

[Castello]

I don't want to be critical of the great work of the author, and maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems to me that the end result of a clean system could simply be accomplish by uninstalls, deletions and running a registry cleaner. Sure the cleaner might miss a few things but those things would be largely insignificant.
This process of a clean install and then reinstalling all the drivers seems like twice the time and work. Aren't we just talking about bragging rights for a pristine initial system?

[jgiordano]

Uninstalling will never give the same performance of a system built from scratch. At least in the windows world...

[R4000]

Aside from which, Vista installs faster than XP and has the majority of drivers which are lacking in XP. I found it to be rather easy IMO.......