If you’re wanting to install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but are not planning to be anywhere near Redmond on October 27th, you may be in luck. A couple of hackers have posted a registry setting that will reportedly allow you to download Vista SP1 through Windows Update.

A little “evaluation copy” watermark will show up on the bottom of your screen, but hackers being what they are, there’s a fix for that as well.

Via Download Squad

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