Used Alphawave's Method = Setting back clock and date to 10/25/2010 and it worked h77p://localhostr.com/file/yQ720Sq/activ.PNG but, now i have a doubt, why it will expire in 24/04/2011?
Davibs: Put bios date back to 25/10/2010 and use the woat by pressing c and N, should work, because it worked for me!
If we can find out how to block the popups (more removewat approach) then it's also good. I prefer that over frankenbuild or bios date trick.
I cant change Wallpapers even if i have activated it.. what the hell is going on? EDIT: Got it to work nvm
Starter? Someone posted earlier here that the hack used files from Windows 7 Starter, and that's why you can't get to personalization.
Can't complain, if you ain't following directions to the T. You HAVE TO activate within the grace period, ie in the past.. once you are all activated you can go back to the present. Been activated for 2 days now and it works fine. If you are seeing starter, you got the wrong files, mine personalizes fine.
It was more a question if the files are from starter. But the original files are in fact from enterprise. I think you just have to make sure the frankenbuild is "frankenbuilded" before first boot.
I hacked mine after install, doesn't matter when as long as it doesn't go non-genuine before activation
@FreeStyler In theory this should continue working for later builds but I'm not going to support a dodgy crack method for alpha software that won't come out for another 2 years. Mainly released what I did for testing KMS activators with it, I wouldn't recommend anyone use this build at all as an OS however its cracked.
try this h t tp://lupafw.blu.livefilestore.com/y1pbBSVysMHBbWDIILSLbai-UKGtrYnajxuUwzlZHmvH-G3WSEOn_qj9BVAqHxm6EYN11Vy3aIVSnlHXuq-dLZAlA/Starter%20Wallpaper%20Changer.exe?psid=1
Pretty sure this will work for everyone. I had all of the problems listed in this thread at one point. Not Geniune, no personalizations or wallpaper available, Not Activated, etc.. The above worked fine for me. I followed the above directions exactly. I didn't have to set my clock back and now it's activated till October 12th 2011, or whenever the next "leak" pops up next week! There's a link to the screenshot below: i68.photobucket.com/albums/i25/Lifetron/7850Frankenbuild.jpg
To be more specific, I: Opened build 7850 in UltraISO Copied the $OEM$ folder from ambidav's post into the sources folder of the iso Saved it and did a fresh install of Windows used WOAT 3.2 and got a six month activation Everything works as far as I can tell. My wallpaper and theme don't change when I restart, my clock is correct and I never had to change it. Now that we figured this out, let's break out the next build!