it was a firewall issue. despite turning off windows 7 firewall it was still blocking kmsemulator.exe from operating. so this time i opened windows 7 firewall control which i use to monitor outbound connections and it then popped up that it was being blocked. sorry for wasting any time, i just assumed that if i turned windows 7 firewall off in control panel then the frontend application i use would not still block any connections! thanks for your help though.
OK I got an idea for you to see if Keygen is actually working. Easiest way to do this is to go into toolkit settings in global tab and disable 2 settings: Delete KMS Keygen After Run Delete KMS Host after Run Then run Activate (not EZ-Activator), it will set the KMS Host and write KMSEmulator.exe to windows folder. Activation will probably fail as usual. Now when it fails, close the toolkit and run the KMSEmulator.exe in windows so you see its window. Then open MS Word 2010. Since your Office 2010 failed to activate and is in notifications mode, it will try to activate by KMS itself. So open it and watch the KMS window. If it says it delivered a code Keygen is working, otherwise it is not, and all blame is on the Keygen as it is now operating on its own, not as part of the tool. Tell me if it delivered the code or not. I need to know this as if it does then mini-kms failed to do something, but if it does not, then something on your PC is screwing up the Keygen. Another thing to confirm after trying this is to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform and see if a value called KeyManagementServiceName exists and is set to 127.0.0.1. Without this Office 2010 does not try to use Keygen.
works absolutely fine now. just strange that my firewall would still block something despite turning it off! does 5 reaarm attemps mean that you can have it for the 180 days after activation, followed by 180 days x 5 and then it will expire and need to be reinstalled, or do i have that wrong?
No need to rearm at all. KMS is for 180 days but there is no limit to reactivation. The AutoKMS feature in the toolkit installs a program that runs at boot, that resets the 180 day by reactivating. Once you get your first successful KMS activation (as some people have issues the first time) it works cleanly every time as long as you control AV. So AutoKMS would keep it from expiring (unless you go over 6 months without a restart, and even then it can still reactivate it after a restart).
The comodo firewall does the same when I close it, I have to disable the firewall first and then exit the application and still dont know why The rearms are for someone that can't use KMS activation, as AutoKMS will reactivate Office every time the computer starts, so every day you will get 180 days and the activation period will (in theory) never end.
Yea haha, well I'll mess around with it and when I get it working ill post what I did. But thnx for all the help still, I appreciate it.
The official links are down. )= Used the links from above, are thoses legit? CRC32: A4C13D50 MD5: CF973E3CC9F47B5B2E3305F8B17071EB SHA-1: 5E844596F34B82E8A315B928C5195C73A74FC877
To developers: please release newer version, I cant wait Besides, is it possible to make infinite rearm for office 14? I see 2.0 contains update of AutoRearm and Rearm Check, can please make a rearm hack?
The AutoRearm tool is effectively infinite rearm when used right. It may take awhile to make a new version plus I'm real busy.
Thanks for the reply, may u make the activator reset the rearm time to 5 once the AutoRearm box is checked & the activator fails to activate (in other words when Rearm time -1)?
I don't understand. The AutoRearm is usually meant to be used when KMS does not work. What it does is it checks the rearm count, and it installs making a license backup. It then installs a task that rearms on start (only if less then 5 days remain though). When it runs out of rearms it restores the backup. The only way to reset rearm count is to take a backup, and restore it later (If you take a backup with 5 rearms, and restore it when one remains, you go back to 5) Only problem is if your 5 rearm backup is 30+ days old when restoring you have 5 rearms but your first one is expired so you rearm and get 30 days + 5 rearms. I don't know what you mean about the activator. No activation in the toolkit uses AutoRearm, and if EZ-Activator fails it reverts to before you used it (so if EZ-Activator rearms but activation fails it restores so this rearm doesn't count). Unlike IR4 which resets a reg entry that resets the windows rearm count, there is no way to reset the Office count, but a license backup can be made, rearm until out of rearms, restore, rearm until out, over and over for all of eternity, which is exactly what AutoRearm does.
I am just thinking in the way Office is so similar to Windows 7... and I think it can work in the way how IR4 does.