solution to product key

This is what I found, wrirren by Tim Sneath "Musings of a Windows Vista Technical Evangelist".

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM tims PDC05: Product Key Problems Some people have experienced difficulties with activating the Windows Vista builds that we distributed at the PDC. Please accept our apologies for this; there's been a mismatch between the activation servers and the product key that was handed out. It's embarrassing - we screwed up - we're sorry. So here's the deal:
For Windows Vista Beta 1, use the following product key: Q8WDJ-TR4KJ-X8WHM-GVGV3-H74C3 For Windows Vista Build 5219 (PDC CTP), use the following product key: GKFV7-F2D9H-QKYXY-777P3-4M73W If you are having problems activating either build, please try again tomorrow. We are replicating the needed changes as we speak, but at this point, not all the activation servers are updated.

That was for a very old build, like around build 5219 distributed at PDC 2005 and to Technical Testers. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Bud" wrote in message

This is what I found, wrirren by Tim Sneath "Musings of a Windows Vista Technical Evangelist".

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM tims PDC05: Product Key Problems Some people have experienced difficulties with activating the Windows Vista builds that we distributed at the PDC. Please accept our apologies for this; there's been a mismatch between the activation servers and the product key that was handed out. It's embarrassing - we screwed up - we're sorry. So here's the deal:
For Windows Vista Beta 1, use the following product key: Q8WDJ-TR4KJ-X8WHM-GVGV3-H74C3 For Windows Vista Build 5219 (PDC CTP), use the following product key: GKFV7-F2D9H-QKYXY-777P3-4M73W If you are having problems activating either build, please try again tomorrow. We are replicating the needed changes as we speak, but at this point, not all the activation servers are updated.

That is unlikely to be relevant to any Product key issues with Windows Vista Beta 2. Did you notice the date of the note? Product Keys for older builds do not work on current builds.
I am also curious where you found this old information.
-- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org
"Bud" wrote in message

This is what I found, wrirren by Tim Sneath "Musings of a Windows Vista Technical Evangelist".

Wednesday, September 21, 2005 2:02 PM tims PDC05: Product Key Problems Some people have experienced difficulties with activating the Windows Vista builds that we distributed at the PDC. Please accept our apologies for this; there's been a mismatch between the activation servers and the product key that was handed out. It's embarrassing - we screwed up - we're sorry. So here's the deal:
For Windows Vista Beta 1, use the following product key: Q8WDJ-TR4KJ-X8WHM-GVGV3-H74C3 For Windows Vista Build 5219 (PDC CTP), use the following product key: GKFV7-F2D9H-QKYXY-777P3-4M73W If you are having problems activating either build, please try again tomorrow. We are replicating the needed changes as we speak, but at this point, not all the activation servers are updated