Before I begin with this post, just let me say, I am running windows vista business with service pack 1 installed. I installed it about 2 or 3 days before I shipped off my motherboard to be repaired, and about 2 or three weeks when I got the mobo back, vista said I had to activate it. (the little icon in the task bar that says click here to activate)…Well it has been about 3 or 4 days since it has told me to activate. So my meathod of “cracking vista” is to borrow your friend’s copy of vista, and then just don’t put in a product key, and just don’t activate it. Currently the only thing that happens with me, is it periodically says I may be a victim of counterfeit, and that is all. I will update this post later if things change.

Update 9-26-08: It turns out, I don’t think vista will stop working fully if you don’t activate it. You just don’t get to use all the features of windows, so I went ahead and activated windows.