Vista activation problem

Rotty · 4 Feb 2009 at 16:34

I was given a new laptop from work a while ago but never got round to using it

I turned it on today and get the screen

If I try and activate I get a DNS error

Apparantly this is a known issue with the Enterprise volume licensing stuff

All fixes seem to refer to going into Control Panel and re entering your licence key

However I cannot getfully into windows just a restricted version which only allows web access

any ideas ?

Brian Stuart · 4 Feb 2009 at 16:37

Tried phoning on 0800 0188354

(ps we will see who beats the record of Nottingham Forest after we beat Derby tonight

)

Rotty · 4 Feb 2009 at 16:39

I haven't but all the web pages say you cannot use telephone activation when using a volume licensing key

IAmATeaf · 4 Feb 2009 at 16:56

You can't use MS to activate AFAIK. If work gave you the lappy then they must have a KMS server at work. You lappy needs to talk to that server, if you get access to work from home via VPN then you may be stuffed so you'll need to take it into work.

Rotty · 4 Feb 2009 at 17:11

IAmATeaf said:
You can't use MS to activate AFAIK. If work gave you the lappy then they must have a KMS server at work. You lappy needs to talk to that server, if you get access to work from home via VPN then you may be stuffed so you'll need to take it into work.

thats what I was beginning to think