Low-tech solution? I'm very late to the party here, and my expertise in this area is severely limited. I'm forced by unemployment and poverty to keep a trial copy of Windows 7 going as long as possible. It occurs to me that one very low-tech solution might be to rearm Windows 7 every month to prevent activation for the total of 120 days, and then reinstall (using the option to upgrade an existing copy) another version at the end of that period. For example, you could alternate between both the OEM and Retail versions of Win 7. I agree it's none too elegant, and something of a pain (about 90 minutes on my machine) to do a reinstall, but you avoid disabling activation and running afoul of Big Brother's WAT. Is there something I am missing or a flaw in my logic? Thanks in advance for answering a simple question from a real noob.
@UserBill Wouldnt that defeat the whole point of this website LOL. Just use Daz's Loader or RemoveWAT when they come out with 1.0.
Sure, Lol? iIf Yes: Cause many friends here ask and ask, cause they don't know what happens after install KB971033... - me, too... I read somwhere, tht reomerWAT is for Bios Hack - is this correct? Not sure yet, install that KB or not ... little bit confused
Make an Image first, Try and then tell us. i'm very curious abouti that solution. I have an Asus P6T non Slic and I am not interested in modding my BIOS. The loaders don't work with my MB. My hope is RemoveWAT or Chew.
Is there any way to remove RemoveWAT when the "Restore WAT" option is greyed out? I can't restore WAT on 2 out of 3 PCs.
that's ma probelm, cause more than 40 GB in HD C - to much for image And whats about u? Possible by you?
Yes u can manually restore the files. Just rename from xxx.yyy.bak to xxx.yyy * slui.exe * sppcomapi.dll * slwga.dll * user32.dll * slmgr.vbs Maybe I forgot one but this are the most important ones.... OR just run "sfc /scannow" from and elevated command prompt to automize this process
come on guys be gentle and behave, Hazar has just seen 2 months of work been flushed through the toilet
lol i talk to Hazar on WLM all the time but he hasnt been around because he knows im going to laugh at him.
The program is working as intended, which is to remove WAT. I'm sure Hazar will continue to improve the program. LoL
I just tested with fresh install of windows7 x64 and than i have installed KB971033 and than installed RemoveWAT 2.24 and it works Windows Activation Technologies--> HrOffline: N/A HrOnline: N/A HealthStatus: N/A Event Time Stamp: N/A WAT Activex: Registered WAT Admin Service: Not Registered - 0x80070005
Change system files will never be a safe solution. They are very easy to detect ... even if you find a solution the system remained vulnerable.