Request for Vista 'activation' screenshots.

Not got any screenshots as I dont want to have to activate by phone again but I did do it last week as I swapped Vista from one PC to another and as predicted the online activation thought it was already activated, but once you go through online activation and you fail because it says your either already activated or your licence key was wrong, your given a few options:

Purchase a key
Activate by phone
enter another key

( terms maybe slightly off word for word )

if you choose activate by phone your then asked for you location and then you gain the freephone number for your location, you phone it and press the numberals to answer certain questions, like, "is this version installed on any other PC" "have you upgraded your PC" you then type in off the phone actiavtion screen a long set of around 20 digits, you then get put through to an advisor who asks similar questions about "is it installed on another PC or have you done a major upgrade" they tell you your version that your activating as I guess the code tells them, then they put activatioin through their system and give you another 20 digit number to enter in the boxes on the activation screen and you click next and hopefully your activated.

 

I know I didnt provide screenshots but as I had just gone through that process I was not going to re-install Vista to capture some

I actually thought I had saved some shots of activation, reduced mode activation etc as those were some senarios I did for the testing, must have deleted those with stacks of other screenies and error data .cabs.

But I'd imagine you've been through that process now first hand?