hello fellow nairalanders,

i formated my laptop toshiba satelite early this year.it came with windows vista PRE-INSTALLED and i decided to upload xp into it. i have a pirated copy of windows vista dat doesnt uses a key.i later upgraded the system to vista using this same cd. everytin went fine.

And just this month. my system went down. i had to repeat this same process again, everytin went fine.a friend came to borrow it and i gave it out.
two days later i receieved a call from him telling me he doesnt understand the language on the screen. i went there as soon as possible but found out that i have been locked out. it says i ve to activate windows over the internet.(dat my key is expired). but since d last format early dis year, i didnt get such a message

i dont want to format dis system cos i have a lot of files scattered on d hard drive.

how do i get my screen back up again

on welcome page the windows activation screen appears and if i click on the cancel button it just simply logs me off.

Hey u should have cracked the vista after u installed and it expires after 30 of installation. there is a separate cd called vista crack sold in the market so u beta go and buy it