That's great information but when the windows activation appears, i never enter any key and always leave the checkbox enabled, click on Next but dispite that, i notice that i still have 30 days of evaluation period, how can you explain that ?
@mxman2k To be perfectly clear, To be able to use your project correctly to activate automatically win7 on OEM machines, when the activation window appears, you don't have to enter any key and you have to click on skip, do you confirm this ?
With Windows 7 -- No key is needed. If the computer has a valid slic mrp will activate it with the cert/key that matches. It is all mentioned in the readme files
yes i know that but when the activation window appear, do you have to click on "skip" or on "Next" or it doesn't matter ?
ok so in his case (the author of this thread) , how can you explain that the automatic activation has not been done dispite the fact that the machines are OEM and thus have a valid slic?
I know i am risking another 50+ quotes and replies asking about the obvious, the LOG will show what happened, and the QT will show the rest of the info.
I suggest you start reading https://forums.mydigitallife.net/threads/vista-oem-activation-how-it-works.5619/ for vista but same applies for windows 7 just slic was updaded to 2.1. Sometimes it is better not to comment untill you know how things work last time I know of slp oem activation failing was with leaked levono oem:slp key after WGA was introduced years back.
Thank you for the link but i already know which conditions must be in place so that oem:slp activation takes place which are, slic, key and certificate must all match so that the activation can be done (to say things quickly), i've been told this few months back. That's not the point, i was just trying to understand why the activation hasn't been done in his case. After thinking it over, i think i may have found some ideas : 1) the machines are not OEM machines as he pretends so no slic present in the bios 2) there was hardware replacement as the motherboard 3) the slic was removed after bios update as @mxman2k said in one of his previous posts. 4) he didn't really use MRP project 5) MRP didn't find the right certificate for the machine
No, I referred to the automatic activation Windows attempts to do, even when no key was entered (hence the default key).
No matter what, without entering any valid key, grace will always be 30 days max. The registry value only deals with Windows' automatic activation attempts, the grace period remains the same.
According to you, what would be the reason of the non activation of his win7 (the author of this thread) on the machines using MRP project ?
We would need to know if they were actually activated before. If the grace is still fresh, Windows is fairly silent about its activation stage. It becomes a lot more talkative when the end is nigh. So, during the first week or so, you might not even notice it's not activated. Alas, we need logs. Logs that tell us if MRP attempted OEM activation or not.