Ok, I'm feeling kinda stupid now. I followed the programs directions in order and to the letter. #14 Click the "uninstall" button to uninstall the program. I thought that uninstalling it was the last step of the installation. I figured the program set things in motion and then was no longer needed. And it needed to be uninstalled to hide traces from MS or something. LOL. May want to make # 14 into a side note or something, for other boneheads like me. (insert "embarassed" smiley here) Thanks a ton guys. You're both aces in my book.
Those are just button instructions...lol I see what you mean though dudes might not think about the steps and just 1-14 click...lol You don't want to unistall. We don't delete those files...lol If you unistall, your task unistalls so leave it installed dude. I just said unistall so it would clear your first non-enterprise friendly key and then put the correct installkey.bat in c:\...lol And actually if you just installed windows 7 you just click install and don't have to go into Recovery Environment for 5 months and your taks will rearm you automatically dude
you guys are setting the rearm task to 29 days, but february only has 28 days, so next february everyone wil be moaning
It doesn't go by months and weeks it goes by every 29 days in a linear fashion so as to be rearmed one day before going into notification. Since the setting box in task scheduler gets checked that makes sure the rearm happens as soon as possible if computer has been turned off but turned on again before going into notification. I will probably set mine to 28 days to give little more time to turn back on computer to rearm and thus rearms 13 times a year plus one day extra...lol
does this still work if say i go away for 2 weeks on day 27 what wiil happen when i come back after the 2 weeks and fire up the pc
The grace period would have expired and the system would have gone into non-genuine (notification state), you can no longer use your rearms. Simple fix is to reset your rearm count.
so what about if i came back after the 2 weeks and fired the pc up into PE and reset, would this work??
Yes, that would get your system a brand new install date, as if it was installed just before you logged on to windows after the reset.
Did anyone ever try this registry hack i posted a few pages back, to see if it dioes actually increase the rearms from 4 to 8For Windows 7: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform6. In right-side pane, change value of SkipRearm to 1. Now you can use the slmgr -rearm command 8 more times.
This does not work and I have tried it. When you set the SkipRearm flag to 1 and do slmgr /rearm, it will show successfully rearm complete and request for a restart. After restart there will be no change in the trail remaining time or remaining rearm count.
Thanks, guys... I was planning on modding my new motherboard's BIOS or using the COA key from my laptop but I think I'll use this method.
I have updated my batch file to create only one file (reset.bat) compared to the previous versions that created three files. Changes have been made to both post#30 and the download post
mmh... as far as I know to delete the /WPA key from windows you need to have a process running under the build in Windows "trusted installer" account.
That would improve the program but people have been trying to do it for a while but still most have to reboot atleast once hence what this concept is doing now
Out of curiosity (and I did search the forums a bit but did not come up with any answers) are there any recommended ways to make this re-arm work on a Mac running Windows under BootCamp? Thanks in advance for any answers.