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Did you forget activate your computer within 30 days of installing and it is now stuck in reduced functionality Mode? Are you not yet ready to activate your copy and want to extend the activation period another 30 days or for longer? Using a slick Internet Explorer trick you can break out of Reduced Functionality mode and run the commands required to reset your activation period and recover use of your computer.

It starts when you log in and shown this error screen instead of taken to your desktop. Your only options are to activate now or enter reduced functionality mode. In reduced functionality mode, you will only have access to internet explorer, so that you can buy a license for Windows Vista!

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Would you like the change the registered owner and organization for your Windows Vista installation? Follow these steps below to make the registry changes necessary:

1. Click on the Start Button and type in regedit and hit Enter.
2. Navigate through HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SOFTWARE, Microsoft, Windows NT and CurrentVersion.
3. Right click on RegisteredOwner and select Properties.

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Although Internet Explorer 7 doesn’t have as many plugins or addons as Firefox, there are addons for IE7 that will cover off most of the features that users will need covering. Over the last couple of months I’ve been using IE7 as my main browser, because it’s the only one I’m allowed to use at work.

Martin from gHacks has put together a great list of some of the free plugins, which are all available in the Windows Marketplace. He’s even located the Firefox equivalent if you

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