RIS a Vista downgraded Xp machine - Is it possible?

September 11, 2008

So i got a new laptop for one of my doc's. It came with Vista

downgrade to XP, with XP preinstalled. I added our apps, whole nine

yards to get it ready to riprep it. Ripreped it, then booted it back

up to test the new image, when i test the image, i get prompted for

the License key but the vista key doesn't work for XP. Is there some

way around this that anyone can thing of?

I can't use vista because our in house apps don't support it yet.

September 11, 2008

Re: RIS a Vista downgraded Xp machine - Is it possible?

"agentc0re" <agentc0re@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> So i got a new laptop for one of my doc's. It came with Vista

> downgrade to XP, with XP preinstalled. I added our apps, whole nine

> yards to get it ready to riprep it. Ripreped it, then booted it back

> up to test the new image, when i test the image, i get prompted for

> the License key but the vista key doesn't work for XP. Is there some

> way around this that anyone can thing of?

>

> I can't use vista because our in house apps don't support it yet.

And your SERVER question is?

September 11, 2008

Re: RIS a Vista downgraded Xp machine - Is it possible?

On Sep 11, 10:11 am, "NeilH" <n...@nospam.uk> wrote:

> "agentc0re" <agentc...@gmail.com> wrote in message

>

> news:ad729a2a-d73b-45fe-a59f-2941819ccdab@w24g2000prd.googlegroups.com...

>

> > So i got a new laptop for one of my doc's. It came with Vista

> > downgrade to XP, with XP preinstalled. I added our apps, whole nine

> > yards to get it ready to riprep it. Ripreped it, then booted it back

> > up to test the new image, when i test the image, i get prompted for

> > the License key but the vista key doesn't work for XP. Is there some

> > way around this that anyone can thing of?

>

> > I can't use vista because our in house apps don't support it yet.

>

> And your SERVER question is?

I quote "Is there some way around this that anyone can thing of?"

I'll also expand, Does anyone have a clue if RIS (which is a server

related application) has a work around with the vista downgraded xp

machines so that once they are imaged you can reimage machines?

I know saying this is going to lower my chances of having my question

answered but, NeilH if you don't think my question belongs here how

about just saying so instead of throwing out a dumb oneliner like,

"and your server question is..." You do realize that RIS is a server

application don't you?

September 15, 2008

Re: RIS a Vista downgraded Xp machine - Is it possible?

RIS (and now WDS) requires that Volume Licensed (VL) media with valid Volume

Licens Key (VLK) is used if you wish to avoid activating each installed PC.

Computers built with Windows XP VL media do not require activation.

Computers built with Vista media (Business, Enterprise, Ultimate) default to

being activated using KMS. If you don't use KMS, each copy has to be

activated by Microsoft. VLK is specified in the appropriate '.inf' file.

IOW, RIS and RIPREP processes have nothing to do with licensing. It's the

variant of OS that is installed that 'decides' whether to go to try to

activate or not.

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