There is a fairly interesting little file rolling around the Interwebs which creates and tries thousands of Vista keys based on a single product key without Vista getting wise to your antics.
The program takes your install key and creates a bunch of activation keys. It then “tries” them and may or may not activate your copy over the course of a few hours — or, ominously, days.
I couldn’t find the file but it’s out there somewhere and, if this screen cap from the source is any indication, you may need a girlfriend instead of Vista.
Vista Brute Force Keygen [Keznews]
Not quite sure why you would want to expose yourself to Microsoft with such a brute force technique. This must be easy to find in log files, people trying to attempt activation with all kinds of keys. Why not just send an email to Microsoft ousting yourself as a software pirate ;-)
its not a pirated copy, i just bought a new toshiba laptop,so i used the upgrade cd to upgrade my hpxp service pack2 laptop,now i cant activate it,its also requres a bios licence