An Update on the Vista DHCP Bug
April 26, 2007

I had started a thread awhile back to discuss Vista, and one of the things I've mentioned here has been a bug concerning Vista "randomly" dropping off the network with a large amount of work needed to get it back on. Well, I discovered the cause. It might be my specific machine - but activation triggers Vista to lose it's network address and be unable to re-attain one until "ipconfig" has been ran.

Also, if you are activating a different machine with the same key be aware that it doesn't work the first time around. You have to try to activate, and then "input a different number" except input your original number anyway. It worked for me. The joys of activation and changing hardware.