Sorry that was my night time...... Yes right, but if you use the ISO slip-streamed with data.dat and WMC then skip point 1 & 2.
No matter if we use the Retail or the VL version slip-streamed or not if we ask for a free WMC key and use it and also replace the data.dat with OPs we are all set right? Or even better just use the data.dat without even using the free WMC perhaps?
I believe VL doesn't support WMC, and you could not install win8 with a WMC key, so you will need to insert it after restoring activation files to correspond with the activation records (in tokens.dat and data.dat).
I just installed Win8Pro with WMC used the free WMC to activate the product then replaced the 'data.dat' and now permananently activated!
Fine, seems to be you're done now. May it would be a bit better if you write every infos and not just part's, it would more understandable! As example you wrote: "Can a free WMC key and replace of data.dat activate any Windows 8 instalaltion? ", so what that really means? Can a free WMC Key (what?)...! Or in your last post: App (what App?)!
Thanks for the suggestion, was also posting an Apple question and used the term 'app' instead of 'data.dat' So, since i was activated this way i strongly beleive that any Win8 Installation can be activated the same way..... I cannot of course try 3-4 more format to prove a point
I activated today 4 times with one key (same VM, same key, always the same snapshot - for testing reasons)
I have 2 Win8Pro WMC free keys. If I don't use them until January 31st 2013, they will expire? Let's say my HDD breaks down on February 2nd 2013, can I use the WMC key to activate?
Help I Activated my windows with the WMC upgrade option key, I then backed up my activation with Token manager... Just out of curiosity I formatted my pc and did a clean install only to find that I could not restore the activation due to only having the WMC Activation backup. I was unable to upgrade to WMC as I needed to activate the pro edition first! SO, I activated using Pirate activator then upgraded to WMC & then I removed the pirate activation & run sfc /scannow to fix modified files. I then rebooted my system to find that it was activated with a date of activation! Is this process likely to work in future???? Thx
Oh sorry.I can't quote the post above yours(the one talking about neowin blogged) the point is few sites are talking about you can activate windows with the free wmc key m$
Open elevated CMD: Code: dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /Source:X:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess where X: is your optical/virtual drive with Win-ISO.