Longhorn and ACPI SLIC activation

[winlego3210]

It seems that OEM preactivation support via the BIOS SLIC in Longhorn was implemented since Beta 2 (or earlier?) I installed a crack that uses said activation method and got rid of the timebomb in 5259:

[ATeamInc]

PM please. Even after tokens.dat replacement myself, I never got to successfully debomb 52xx range of builds.

[Valerio]

Seems interesting, could you please share with us more details about this? Like what crack did you use and what did you do exactly.

[beta.a.brian]

Yeah, I'm interested too, never heard of a method that also removes timebomb that easily.

[winlego3210]

It's a crack that seems to be designed for RTM versions of Vista and probably a coincidence that it works on late betas. It's either:
1) official activator
2) an imitation in terms of style (more likely)

Given BA's policy on cracks, you know the deal.