Smorgan, I initially used miniKMS to activate Office 2010 RTM. I then installed Visio Premium 2010. I then uninstall miniKMS, and replaced it with Tuvi. I finally used MAK key to permanently activate Office 2010 RTM This is what I have: ---Processing-------------------------- --------------------------------------- SKU ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeVisioPrem-KMS_Client edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED--- ERROR CODE: 0 as licensed Last 5 characters of installed product key: WX8BJ REMAINING GRACE: 131 days (188006 minute(s) before expiring) --------------------------------------- SKU ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeProPlus-MAK edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, RETAIL channel LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED--- ERROR CODE: 0 as licensed Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- You notice I only have grace period of 131 days on Visio. How do I make Visio to go back to 180 days, i.e., restart from day 1, without messing with Office 2010 MAK?
theoretically if you had VAMT 2.0 installed you should see 2 keys in use one will be the MAK key the other will be the grace period key aka Visio.... My best guess is that if you manually activated with the troubleshooting method listed in the repo then you could reset the counter on the Visio copy to 180 days... I would first however try putin the MAK key into the visio thou...
Generate your own valid registry key is not completely impossible, but very, very hard. You'd have to reverse engineer the exe or dll that contains the code to check for the correctness of the key.
And that pretty much hits it right on.... And yea you would probably have to reverse engineer the dll first because the damn registry/setup keeps correcting it...
To get back 180 days, just run team ZWT KMS host emulator and try to activate one more time. the counter will reset to 180.
You keep repeating that Microsoft wants people to hack their products and that is a complete falsehood. MS has no desire for anyone to hack their products and where you get this ridiculous logic is absolutely astounding for an intelligent person. You will not find any evidence of that kind of thinking in MS forums or on their main website. Your logic is wrong and if you pursue this kind of logic, you will end up on the wrong end of the stick.
You are both right, M$ no matter how big could NOT afford to make a totally secure product, because then most of the people that currently do NOT buy it (but use it) would NOT buy it and NOT use it But of course they do want to make secure products, because that looks good sebus
back to around 2006, where Bill Gates said at Washington University: Many of the apps are nearly uncrackable, like deamon tool pro. For a company as big as MS, they surely CAN make it happen, but they didn't do that, did they? But they surely they didn't make it easy for us either. I say people at MS realy did a good job dealing with priacy in Office 2010. There are 2 way to approach: The first is KMS activation - easy, surely works, no files changed, but has a 6 months limit. Of course, 6 months is lot of time, and it takes only a few seconds to reactivate it, but people just don't like having a time limit haging above them psychologically. The second is to reverse engineer a bunch of complicated activation files to crack it, and it also hangs the threat of OGA could detect it. That can dispirit crackers when a working solution is already found.
Again, my statement stands that Microsoft has no desire for anyone to hack their products...to think otherwise is illogical. And I know where you got this quote and it came from Wikipedia and if you use Wikipedia as a reliable source from which to quote Bill Gates, I have some Oil Land in the Antarctica in which I would like to sell to you... Wikipedia is the worse place to find the truth, for anyone can change what someone else writes about a subject in Wikipedia....no reputable company or even a teacher who wants his/her students to do a research paper would never ever allow Wikipedia to be a source from which to use in a research paper. Dude, you will never find Bill Gates saying such a ridiculous statement like that...your logic is based on a lie and a false premise and therefore, your conclusion will be wrong and false.
Wikipedia is a lot more reliable as you might think, it's even more reliable than "an unnamed" closed encyclopedia in which everything gets checked by the author. And why? Just because if there's wrong info on it it will be corrected by someone who knows the real thruth faster than you can say "correct". A friend of mine chenged something on perpose on wikipedia, something about space. It took no more than about 1.5 days to correct it.
And you sir are an absolute idiot in defending Wikipedia as some RELIABLE SOURCE when in fact it is not reliable and has so many factual erros in it that universities, professional people as myself and 99% of those in industry, manufacturing, sales, medical practices, engineering, legal practices etc., strictly FORBID anyone to use Wikipedia as a source because of the huge amount of unfactual crap that it perpetrates. It is ridiculous for you to use it.....I am in the legal profession and own a very successful law firm with over 15 junior and senior partners and if ONE OF MY PEOPLE would DARE to use Wikipedia as source of law, they would be severly reprimanded and fired by myself and the courts would throw out any argument which uses this piece of crap source. No academia would dare allow Wikipedia to be used in resource materials.
Guys, I think we are deflecting from topic. And my opinion is that we should respect each other in discussions. Anyway, Didn't Microsoft launch genuine test for Office 2010 yet?