IR5 - The Official Windows 7 Rearm Solution

Did you by any chance clear your system log?

 

What would I do? I would leave the dates well alone because even if you change the one date theres loads of others on the system that show evidence of trail resetting.

It's easy to randomize a date so that everyone has them different but unless you're going to do that on a ton of stuff it's pointless unless you also offer a way to revert them all. You would also need a check in place in case someone runs the reset 2x or more which would overwrite the real original dates.

I should also point out that WAT itself caches the last activation status, that too likely has the date stored in there.

Personally I would think it'd be easier to keep it resetting the trial as it is (minus the date) and if it then gets blocked then work from there and try to figure out a way around it.

 

Copy the following code in notepad and save it as FirstDate.xml
Open Event Viewer, Click on Import Custom View and select the Xml file.
You'll get your date and time

Code:

<ViewerConfig><QueryConfig><QueryParams><Simple><Source>Microsoft-Windows-Setup</Source><Channel>System</Channel><RelativeTimeInfo>0</RelativeTimeInfo><Task>3000</Task><BySource>True</BySource></Simple></QueryParams><QueryNode><Name>First Date</Name><QueryList><Query Id="0" Path="System"><Select Path="System">*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Setup'] and Task = 3000]]</Select></Query></QueryList></QueryNode></QueryConfig></ViewerConfig>

 

Here's a batch script that will query the event logs and set the install date to the time Windows 7 setup was completed.

Code:

@echo off
echo. Querying Event logs for First System Date...
echo. Please wait...
echo. This process will take a few minutes to complete
echo. Do not close this window
echo.
echo Set WshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") >date.vbs
echo strComputer = "." >>date.vbs
echo Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:\\" ^& strComputer ^& "\root\CIMV2") >>date.vbs
echo Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_NTLogEvent Where Logfile='System' and EventCode='2003'",,48) >>date.vbs
echo For Each objItem in colItems >>date.vbs
echo dateTime = objItem.TimeGenerated>>date.vbs
echo Next>>date.vbs
echo abc = Split(dateTime, ".")>>date.vbs
echo dateTime = Mid(abc(0),1, 4) ^& "/" ^& Mid(abc(0),5, 2) ^& "/" ^& Mid(abc(0),7, 2) ^& " " ^& Mid(abc(0),9, 2) ^& ":" ^& Mid(abc(0),11, 2) ^& ":" ^& Mid(abc(0),13, 2)>>date.vbs
echo dateTime = DateAdd("n", -WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias"), dateTime) >>date.vbs
echo WshShell.RegWrite "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\InstallDate", DateDiff("s", "70/1", DateAdd("n", WshShell.RegRead("HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation\ActiveTimeBias"), dateTime)), "REG_DWORD" >>date.vbs
cscript /b date.vbs
del date.vbs
echo. Operation completed successfully.
echo.
systeminfo | Findstr /C:"Original Install Date:"
pause

Save the file as change.bat and Run as Administrator.

 

You need to put the date and time in quotes like I have done.

 

Check out my post in the Guide.

 

The usual post #30. I have commented the code. Makes it much easier to follow for others.

 

Yes, it is the same code minus the XML stuff.

Differences would be noticed only in the Task created

- No delete immediately after trigger end date
- No wake from sleep to run task
- Configured for Vista & Server 2008

Did I miss anything?

 

Uninstall file?

Did I forget to mention in the comment, the uninstall file is also created by the same batch file.

 

RemoveTask is the uninstall that gets created, it is the same script as your uninstall script. Only difference is you have it with you always, and I create it only if I have used the bat file. The removeTask created in the temp rar folder gets deleted as soon as the program is closed, so it is of no use in a self extracting archive.

You can even remove the the "creates removetask.bat" part of 1.bat file.