Clean Vista install WITH NO ACTIVATION

[Pbottie]

I got my x64 from MSDNAA as a student, it was the 64 business edition but it obviously had Ultimate and everything else in there as well.
I used Revo Uninstaller with my HP once to get rid of the unwanted things (bloatware).
I would lend you my DVD if you where closer than UK =D

[josher]

Well laptop arrived today; since obviously HP didnt ship any cds with it i am dumbstruck as to where to get the vista64 cd's. If i am not able to is there a "next best method" of removing bloatware?

I ' really though want to do a clean installation dammit.

Another program which be of interest to you is pc decrapifier.
http://pcdecrapifier.com/

[ankoump]

Lol Pbottie you can always mail it to me.

Another program which be of interest to you is pc decrapifier.
http://pcdecrapifier.com/

yeah i kind of stumbled upon pcdecrapifier. If i cant find a decent torrent (is it legal to talk about it or not finally?) i will opt for that. Cheers.

[thatguy47]

Isn't it free?

[cowxman]

Hey I just got my new laptop dv7z yesterday and I couldn't find the WAU folder just to let you know, and it didn't come with recovery discs so I had to burn my own using the new "Recovery Manager". So I had to torrent Windows Vista 64 bit and burn the image to a DVD. It worked so I have everything set up to be reformatted except right now I'm burning recovery discs so hopefully everything goes well later and then I can burn another set of recovery discs without bloatware using TrueImage.

[Takezo]

Guys I`m having a little problem here, I just formated the notebook (VGN-NR140E - Sony Vaio), backuped the information and everything, but I run the activation_restore and at the System it doesn`t say that it`s activated. What`s going on?

[deeastman]

Hey I just got my new laptop dv7z yesterday and I couldn't find the WAU folder just to let you know

HP computers don't have WAU folders.

So I had to torrent Windows Vista 64 bit and burn the image to a DVD.

Since downloading Vista via a torrent is not legal, it shouldn't be discussed here

Happy to hear that everything is working for you.

[orev]

Guys I`m having a little problem here, I just formated the notebook (VGN-NR140E - Sony Vaio), backuped the information and everything, but I run the activation_restore and at the System it doesn`t say that it`s activated. What`s going on?

Did you install the same edition of Vista that was originally installed? (Homre premium, ultimate, etc...)

Check the files that were created (backup-key.txt and backup-cert.xrm-ms). Do they both exist? Do they both contain something?

If possible, run the restore again and copy/paste the output to me. You can send in a PM if you want.

[Animal1234]

If i want to backup my C folder do I have to use a software like Norton Ghost to back it up?

[Animal1234]

Also I am looking at both Orev's guide and stallen's guide and I was confused about one thing. Stallen has a step where you download and save your drivers that are needed. I cant seem to find that step in Orev's guide. I want to use Orev's guide since its mostly used for HP but I am a bit confused on that part. I think it might be the SWsetup step just not 100% sure.

Another thing in the step where I have to obtain the vista installation CD if I have HP notebook how do I do this? Looking through some of the pages of this thread many people have mentioned that HP notebooks dont have a WAU folder. If you dont have a WAU folder where do we find the Anytime Upgrade DVD? Or is this not saved at all on the Hard drive?