Sorry, Subject title is incorrect...I meant "Manaully Extract OEM Cert withOUT using tools like SLIC 3.2." Hello All, First Post, so please be kind... I did do a search for information on how to manually extracting OEM Cert, but still a little confused on how to go about doing so. (i.e. search but for Vista //forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/144-How-do-i-extract-my-OEM-cert (sorry, can't link anything quite yet with 1 post under my belt)). I've just ordered a dozen Lenovo X220 with W7 Pro. We don't have VLK setup yet at this point, so we have to proceed with creating images with a clean install from the W7 OEM DVD. I have used tools like SLIC and ABR to backup/restore the OEM Cert/Key for testing. I'm just curious...if I need to do this manually without these tools, how do I go about doing it with a Lenovo OEM build? Extracting OEM Cert, restoring the OEM cert to a clean install...etc. There are a wealth of information on this forum and I have been learning a lot for everybody for the last 6Hrs, so Thanks for all the informative posts! Cess