Hi I get this error: Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Backing Up License Info In Case Of Failure. --------------------------------------- Changing any Unactivated MAK Keys to KMS Keys. --------------------------------------- If You Have Starter Subscription It Will Now Use Permanently Activated Key. --------------------------------------- Converting Unactivated, Trial, Or Subscription Retail Versions of Office to VL. --------------------------------------- Removing Any Unactivated Retail Keys Left Installed After Conversion To VL. --------------------------------------- Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Attempting To Activate Office 2010 KMS Products. Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Failed To Activate 10 Times. --------------------------------------- Object reference not set to an instance of an object. I read the readme/troubleshooting part and enabled what you said to but I don't know where to locate the log file.Both AVG and Windows firewall are turned off. Thanks Jarryd
Restart toolkit and try again. If it fails disable PID Change in settings and see if it gets that error.
@poe_sniper I can replicate your error by killing KMSEmulator, and when the PID Change is attempted, it fails like that since it isn't running. Your settings say you enabled KMSEmulator (which the PID thing wouldn't be attempted if KMSEmulator wasn't going to be used). My guess is you had something kill KMSEmulator after it started (a failure to start would have thrown an error immediately before EZ-Activator did anything else, so look into AV).
Hi Okay. Have gone and put in the KMSEmulator.exe and AutoKMS.exe into my AV as safe items everywhere I could. Thanks Jarryd
Hi what are the advantages/differences when installing autokms as a service ? does the mean the autokms and keygen files arent in windows folder ? or what ? will it be installed by service as default when using ez activator ? i'm using silent switches 2 install and i would just like to know if this is default for ez activator ?
Otk 2.1.5 beta1 Office 2010 x64 IT PP (VL client) in Windows 7 Ultimate x64 IT Using OTK 2.1.4 from the 3 april always ok - after each pc boot "Successfully activated after 1 attempts." Uninstalled the AutoKMS from the OTK 2.1.4 Activation Tab - reboot the PC Installed the AutoKMS in the OTK 2.1.5 BETA1 Activation Tab. After the E-Z activator action the console shows: ==================================================== Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Backing Up License Info In Case Of Failure. --------------------------------------- Changing any Unactivated MAK Keys to KMS Keys. --------------------------------------- If You Have Starter Subscription It Will Now Use Permanently Activated Key. --------------------------------------- Converting Unactivated, Trial, Or Subscription Retail Versions of Office to VL. --------------------------------------- Removing Any Unactivated Retail Keys Left Installed After Conversion To VL. --------------------------------------- Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Attempting To Activate Office 2010 KMS Products. Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Failed To Activate 10 Times. --------------------------------------- Changed PID to: 55041-00168-305-190595-03-1033-3790.0000-2692009 --------------------------------------- Attempting To Activate Office 2010 KMS Products Again. Attempting To Activate Office 2010 KMS Products. Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Successfully activated after 1 attempts. --------------------------------------- Office 2010 was succesfully activated. ====================================================== The autoKMS log is: ------------------------------------ AutoKMS Ran At 11/04/2011 11:18:03. Started KMSEmulator.exe Changed KMS PID To: 55041-00168-305-190595-03-1033-3790.0000-2692009 Attempting To Activate Office 2010. Checking Installed Office KMS Products. Professional Plus KMS Installed. Successfully Set Office KMS Host To 127.0.0.1 Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Successfully activated after 1 attempts. Stopped KMSEmulator. --------------------------------------- But now the autoKMS is installed as service? Where is in the HLM\System\CurrentControSet\services?
It's mainly if you want to activate other PC's and use your PC as a KMS server, otherwise you don't need this and it gives you no benefit. The service is only installed if you do it manually, so unless you pressed Install for AutoKMS Service you won't have it. If you don't have a good reason to run it as a service, don't bother.
Ok, only for my know-how, now in the Activation Tab used the AutoKMS service option. Used the E-Z activator and the console shows: ============================================================================== Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Backing Up License Info In Case Of Failure. --------------------------------------- Changing any Unactivated MAK Keys to KMS Keys. --------------------------------------- If You Have Starter Subscription It Will Now Use Permanently Activated Key. --------------------------------------- Converting Unactivated, Trial, Or Subscription Retail Versions of Office to VL. --------------------------------------- Removing Any Unactivated Retail Keys Left Installed After Conversion To VL. --------------------------------------- Getting Office License Configuration Information. --------------------------------------- Attempting To Activate Office 2010 KMS Products. Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Successfully activated after 2 attempts. --------------------------------------- Installing AutoKMS. Created C:\Windows\AutoKMS\AutoKMS.exe Created C:\Windows\AutoKMS\AutoKMS.ini Created AutoKMS Scheduled Tasks AutoKMS was succesfully installed. --------------------------------------- Office 2010 was succesfully activated. ============================================================================= and the AutoKMS log is: ------------------------------------ AutoKMS Ran At 11/04/2011 15:51:15. Started KMSEmulator.exe Changed KMS PID To: 55041-00168-305-190595-03-1033-3790.0000-2692009 Attempting To Activate Office 2010. Checking Installed Office KMS Products. Professional Plus KMS Installed. Successfully Set Office KMS Host To 127.0.0.1 Attempting To Activate Professional Plus. Successfully activated after 1 attempts. Stopped KMSEmulator. --------------------------------------- I don't know if AutoKMS is working as aservice. Is possible to check in the HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Services of the registry?
You have to enable it after EZ-Activator, and you should see the service in Services. Also, if it is running the log won't show changing PID, and starting/stopping KMSEmulator, or adding/removing KMS hosts since the service handles this. You can tell its working as a service if you have AutoKMS.exe and KMSEmulator.exe running and you can see the AutoKMS Service is Auto and started. Also, if you installed it from BETA 1, may want to replace the AutoKMS.exe with later ones I posted as a separate link.
CODY, same problem with the latest build. Same error at logon screen, and the same two errors on the System Event Log. I don't understand windows services very well, but this problem must be really hard to fix, because there are many many services that suffer from it. For example, at the office we have a network attached camera, made by Axis. It comes with a software called "Camera Station One", which installs a service that is set to run automatically at startup. Well, the Axis service has the exact same problem as your AutoKMS service. The workaround we used at work was to set the service to "Manual" status. And then program a task in the task schedule to run at startup. The task would be a simple .CMD file containing the lines: sleep.exe 240 sc.exe start blahblahservicename That was enough to avoid the errors at startup. And there would be no errors logged in the Event Log at all. I've tried the same trick with your AutoKMS service, and it does work perfectly well! It seems that Windows tries to start a lot of services concurrently to speed up the booting process, and some of them may have dependencies on others, which are really difficult to maintain and coordinate in parallel. It can be a nightmare to get this right. I'm happy with the current workaround, but I'm willing to test more if you'd like to investigate a bit more! Regards.
Hi CODYQX4. I would like to know, when using the license backup tab is the Reinstall Keys option used to restore activation after a reformat regardless of hardware? Also not sure if this is a typo or not, but in the license backup tab you use Reinstall keys, but when you explain about the license backup in the readme part you list it as Restore Keys Option.
I would like to know the difference between restoring Saved Keys and the Reinstall keys option then, since they both can restore. Just saved keys is restricted to the hardware, so not sure about reinstall keys.
All backups are hardware locked, but the restore keys lets your backup work after a reformat/reinstall OS on the same PC, which has always failed with normal backup.