I first heard about this Vista ‘hack’ a few weeks ago but I decided to try it for myself before passing it on. It should be of interest to anyone thinking of buying a copy of Vista, and the good news is that you don’t have to buy the full retail version.

You can save yourself a few bob and ‘Clean Install’ Vista using the cheaper Upgrade version. This was always possible with XP and previous versions of Windows and when asked you had to briefly load a legitimate Windows installation disc to verify that you were entitled to an upgrade but it was thought that Microsoft had omitted this facility in Vista. In fact they did, but they’ve left a backdoor wide open, and this is how it works. For the full skinny visit the most excellent Windows Secrets website.Basically all you have to do is boot a PC with a blank hard drive from the Vista install disc, install it but do not enter the Product Key more…

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