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Yes, I know pretty well that this is the news you have been waiting for long. I have got the hack to download the new Vista SP2 (service pack 2) pre-beta version! As you know this pre-beta version is only available to a small “handful” of lucky beta testers who have to try it and report eventual bugs to Microsoft. If you are one of those guys who really can’t wait for the stable version to be released and you want to install the whole “bunch of fun” right away, here is the simple, really simple hack to follow.

1. Download 6002.16489.rar (alternative link) and install the 6002.16489.bat file. This is the whole SP2 and you don’t need anything else in order to get it. Just install it and that’s it.
2. If, for any reason, you can not download the above file, just copy-and-paste the following code to your Notepad and save it with .cmd or .bat extension. After that you will just need to “Run it as Administrator” and check for updates, of course:

@echo off

reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp2 /f > NUL 2>&1
reg delete HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\ Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSP2 /f > NUL 2>&1

reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\VistaSp2 /v Beta1 /t REG_SZ /d C21A5C64-2530-CC19-042F-9ABDB4ED27F9 /f
IF NOT %errorlevel% == 0 ( goto ERROR)

:SUCCESS
@echo.
echo ================================================== =========
echo Windows Vista SP2 registry key has been set successfully.
echo Please check for updates in Windows Update.
echo ================================================== =========
@echo.
goto END

:ERROR
@echo.
echo ================================================== =========
echo FAILED to set Windows Vista SP2 registry keys.
echo Please run this script by right clicking and selecting
echo “Run as Administrator”.
echo ================================================== =========
@echo.
goto END

:END
pause

If you don’t manage to run this code, just download the .cmd code I prepared and tested personally for you.

This code allows you to download, directly from your Windows Vista, an unstable version of Windows Service Pack 2 which is not intended for regular users. As a matter of fact, such a version  may cause failure on your operating system.