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Books Video icon An illustration of two cells of a film strip. Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. The program could run slmgr -rearm three times, 30 days apart, to postpone Vista's activation deadline to days. It could then run skip -rearm every 30 days, for a period of months if not years, by first resetting the SkipRearm key. The program could be scheduled to check Vista's activation deadline during every reboot, and to remind the user to reboot once a month if a deadline was nearing.
The buyer of such a PC would never even see an activation reminder, much less be required to go through the activation process. If you happen to buy a Vista PC from a little-known seller, and the price was too good to be true, use Vista's search function to look for the string SkipRearm in files.
You may discover that your "bargain" computer will mysteriously start demanding activation in a year or two? I asked Microsoft why SkipRearm is included in Vista if it can be used to create machines that appear not to need activation for long periods. A Microsoft spokewoman replied, "I connected with my colleagues and learned, unfortunately, we do not have information to share at this time.
In my testing of Microsoft's back-door loophole, I've found that the technique can be used to postpone the activation deadline one year or longer. It may or may not, however, work forever, as I describe below. Why does SkipRearm even exist in Vista? The Vista development teaam apparently inserted the SkipRearm loophole to help major corporations work around Microsoft's new Volume Licensing Agreement.
This new program, which the Redmond company calls "Volume Licensing 2. Companies must choose from two types of digital keys and three different methods of activation to validate thousands of individual Vista machines within the corporate LAN. Activation of Windows XP, by comparison, requires merely that volume purchasers use a single product key. Corporate buyers obtain a unique key when signing a Volume Licensing Agreement.
Microsoft has said, however, that most Windows XP piracy involves stolen product keys that are used by others to activate unauthorized machines. The new KMS requirement is intended to discourage such piracy, but it places a heavy burden on corporate IT administrators. For example, Microsoft provides a tool called System Preparation sysprep. Contributing editor Susan Bradley points out, "The good guys have to go through this stupid implementation of a KMS deployment because of bad guys abusing the system.
Many of us forget the multiple-install rule [for Microsoft Office] since we are so used to the one license, one install rule," she adds. How many times is "multiple times"? My testing revealed that the answer is, well, indefinite. After that, changing the 0 to 1 had no effect, preventing slmgr -rearm from moving the deadline.
The use of slmgr -rearm 3 times, plus using SkipRearm 8 times would eliminate Vista's activation nag screens for about one year 12 periods of 30 days. This combination would, as with Vista Ultimate, permit a one-year use of Vista without nag screens appearing. This suggests that Microsoft has slipstreamed a new version into stores, eliminating the SkipRearm feature in Vista Home.
That could mean that changing the key from 0 to 1 will now work only in the business editions of Vista? Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate? Where is the usage count of slmgr -rearm stored? Where is the usage count of SkipRearm stored?
These bytes won't be hard for expert users to find. The use restrictions may be easily lifted. If so, this would allow crooked PC sellers to truly create machines that would never need activation, ever. Any company that used SkipRearm to install Vista on multiple machines for as long as possible would have little defense against a surprise inspection by the Business Software Alliance. This coalition of software makers, which includes Microsoft, investigates reports of unlicensed software and obtains warrants to conduct audits.
As a journalist, my job is to report the facts. SkipRearm was specifically built into Vista to be used. Microsoft executives made Vista's activation overly complex and cumbersome. So the development team apparently invented a Registry key to lift the burden of Vista's activation deadline, for at least a year and probably more. The technique is so powerful and basic, however, that hackers around the world may soon use the feature to install millions of extra copies of Vista without buying them.
This could have a major impact on Microsoft's revenues. The company's employees and shareholders might want to be aware of this.
Product activation does little or nothing to stop mass software piracy. It's become so convoluted, the way Microsoft has implemented it, that it's more of an irritation to legitimate users than a worthwhile antipiracy measure. In my opinion, Microsoft should concentrate on legal action against true pirates instead of inventing more ways to drive honorable users bonkers.
Hi, if you get a minute, could send me your Feb 1st article on " A Clean install of Windows Vista" I'm fixing a computer for a friend, his Vista OS crapped out on him,and he pretty well lost everything, he asked me to install a new bigger drive, I had a copy of Vista and now I need to activate it. Don't have much experience in this department unfortunately but workin on it Gratefully appreciated!! In-fact there is a way to extend the 30 days trial period to an unlimited times to which the code in the regestry will have to be modified according to the number of times you would like to use the SLMGR VB script.
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Microsoft seems to be open-minded about as long as original activation codes to anybody who calls the telephone figure and provide a reasonable clarification. Log in or Sign up. Tech Support Guy. Home Forums Operating Systems Windows Here's a well presented scoop in how Activation works under windows 10, both the free upgrade type or a clean install or Retail edition. The key for Windows 7 which is not working.
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