Did your newly purchased computer system come preinstalled with Microsoft Windows Vista? Big multinational OEM vendors are allowed to preactivate your copy of Windows Vista, unfortunatly they tend to ship these systems with much more software installed, most of them you probaply never use. This program makes a backup of everything needed to do a clean install of Windows Vista allowing you still be able to use the OEM preactivation Mechanism.

This utility has a successor, check out: OEMDump (Windows 7 Compatible)

What is Vista™ OEM Activation Backup?

Vista™ OEM Activation Backup is a compiled AutoIt script that automates 3th party software which will backup all files needed to succesfully reinstall a clean copy of Windows Vista on OEM vendor system.



The program will backup the following files:

• OEM Certificate
• OEM SLP Product Key
• OEM SLIC

What is needed to succesfully use this program?

A OEM vendor system that came pre-installed with Windows Vista.
You can check if your system is preactivated by using Microsofts MGADiag.



If MGADiag reports your systems Product ID Type as: OEM SLP your system uses the preactivation mechanism and you are good to go.

Further system requirements

• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Administrator Privileges to execute the program

How to use these files after a clean install?

• During Windows Vista setup use the backup product key
   
• After setup completes import the OEM Certificate by running this command from a Command Prompt started with Administrator Privileges: (right click -> Run as administrator)
  C:WindowsSystem32cscript slmgr-vbs -ilc [PATHFILE]
  
  Example
  C:WindowsSystem32cscript slmgr.vbs -ilc D:DELL_OEMBackupDELL.XRM-MS
   
• The BIOS SLIC table is not really required to re-preactivated your system, i included it just for safekeeping incase a BIOS update makes you loose activation. (No indepth knowledge on how to use this file)

* Credits fly out to the DKSP TEAM for their tool which internally is used by this script.