Activating Vista w/o internet connection

[YabbyU]

Anyone had any problems doing this? Just curious as I plan to build a gaming rig with no internet connection.

Thanks

 

[Schadenfroh]

Just call Microsoft as directed by the activation agent, should be quick and painless on low call load days.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: YabbyU
Anyone had any problems doing this? Just curious as I plan to build a gaming rig with no internet connection.

Thanks

Phone activation is no problem,however if you have no internet connection you'll miss out on a lot of Vista updates,not to meantion latest video drivers etc... for gaming.

 

[YabbyU]

Thanks for input folks......

My "plan" is to use this new rig for gaming only and my old rig for internet, burning game updates, driver updates etc.

I guess I'll see how it goes, I thought it might be cool to avoid having Norton, Zonealarm, AVG, Spybot etc etc etc on my gaming rig......don't know if those really hurt gaming performance but I guess we'll see.

Thanks

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: YabbyU
I guess I'll see how it goes, I thought it might be cool to avoid having Norton, Zonealarm, AVG, Spybot etc etc etc on my gaming rig......don't know if those really hurt gaming performance but I guess we'll see.

There are ways to prevent from being infected without using any system resources, such as a router with a hardware firewall, limited user accounts, keep windows updated and your programs, and full DEP.

AntiVir Free Edition uses about 10mb of ram and should not negatively impact your performance to a significant extent, but it is still active protection running on your system, so there will be a performance hit (but it will probably not be noticeable). See the detection rate test results of various antivirus products and if Antivir's popup is annoying you, PM me.