Login as an administrator, or *the* administrator:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/security/localadminlogin
Looks like a permissions thing from the error report.

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Jeff7506 - 01 Jun 2006 17:51 GMT
Zack,
Thanks a lot for the reply.
I have admin right on the computer but it fail. I try the trick on your
execellent site to logon as THE adminitrator, but i don't was able to switch
to this user :(
Any other clue ?
Thanks alot for your help.
Regards
> Login as an administrator, or *the* administrator:
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?subcats/security/localadminlogin
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Gabriel Lozano-Morán - 01 Jun 2006 23:57 GMT
If you look at the details you will notice a time discrepancy of exactly two
hours between the creation of the event and the datetime in the schema. My
guess is that this is the problem.
Gabriel Lozano-Morán
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> Zack,
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Jeff - 02 Jun 2006 10:54 GMT
Ok so now i m able to login as "The" Administrator (Thanks josh) but i still
have the same issue.
I contact MSDN in france who say that Beta 2 cannot be activated as it's a
trial version....
What will happen in 11 days when the activation grace will expire ?
Any other clue ?
> If you look at the details you will notice a time discrepancy of exactly
> two hours between the creation of the event and the datetime in the
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Naseru - 02 Jun 2006 15:46 GMT
MSDN France is smoking some illegal substances (figure of speech, of
course).
I am running an MSDN version of Vista Beta 2 and I only activated it 3-4
days after the original installation date. --> So, yes, the MSDN versions
do require activation as well.
As for getting it to properly activate: was it a clean install? was it on a
clean partition? were there major hardware adjustments/changes between
installation date/time and activation attempts?
Submitting a bug report (following Andre's advice in this thread) would be
the last option... or re-installing Vista Beta 2 again on a
clean/reformatted partition.
- naseru
> Ok so now i m able to login as "The" Administrator (Thanks josh) but i
> still have the same issue.
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Gabriel Lozano-Morán - 02 Jun 2006 18:21 GMT
Have you tried changing the timezones back to and trying to reactivate? I am
just curious where the 2 hour difference comes from.
Gabriel
> Ok so now i m able to login as "The" Administrator (Thanks josh) but i
> still have the same issue.
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Laszlo Dobos - 05 Jun 2006 13:05 GMT
hi friend
the phone activation work fine, use it!

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Jeff - 03 Jun 2006 12:13 GMT
Hello All
Yes it was a clean istall. No Hardware changes.
I try changing time and loctaion, I try with another product key but without
any sucess. :(
How can i report bug ?
Because the link provided are more feeback than bug reporting.
Thanks a lot for your help.
Best regards
> Ok so now i m able to login as "The" Administrator (Thanks josh) but i
> still have the same issue.
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Josh - 02 Jun 2006 01:29 GMT
Jeff the problem is that Zach's Vista base is out of date. With the newer
build Microsoft is also diableing the built in administrator account as
well. So until you go into compmgmt.msc and enable the account you will not
be able to log on as the local administrator account.
As for the activation i know for a long time the activation server were
being hammered due to all the requests...so might be worth just retrying.
josh
http://windowsconnected.com
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Zack Whittaker - 02 Jun 2006 11:40 GMT
How is it out of date? I've managed to run the administrator using that
article in Beta 2 :-s

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> Jeff the problem is that Zach's Vista base is out of date. With the newer
> build Microsoft is also diableing the built in administrator account as
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Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
error until dt was uninstalled - and don't reinstall it after
activation otherwise vista is not activated again!!!
> Hello,
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Jeff - 05 Jun 2006 15:30 GMT
It works now. Thanks a lot for the tips.
Best Regards
> Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
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Ulldrage - 12 Jun 2006 16:50 GMT
Hi.
I can confirm this.
I had the samme issue untill i removed daemon-tools and then,
"BOOM", Windows has been activated.
There are probably more stuff that creates this issue, but D-T was the
problem for me.
> Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
> error until dt was uninstalled - and don't reinstall it after
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> > Regards
Ulldrage - 12 Jun 2006 16:50 GMT
Hi.
I can confirm this.
I had the samme issue untill i removed daemon-tools and then,
"BOOM", Windows has been activated.
There are probably more stuff that creates this issue, but D-T was the
problem for me.
> Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
> error until dt was uninstalled - and don't reinstall it after
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> > Regards
Mike H - 26 Jun 2006 01:50 GMT
Uninstalling Daemon Tools might fix the problem but for me that is not an
option is there any other way to fix it
> Try uninstalling daemon tools if you have it installed, I got this
> error until dt was uninstalled - and don't reinstall it after
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> > Regards
Cary Moore - 26 Jun 2006 09:57 GMT
Unless there's something specific you need in DT, MagicISO Virtual
CD/DVD-ROM works for me.....
http://www.magiciso.com/tutorials/miso-magicdisc-overview.htm
> Uninstalling Daemon Tools might fix the problem but for me that is
> not an option is there any other way to fix it
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