I have tested launching CLUpdater.exe using $OEM$\$$\Setup\SetupComplete.cmd with success. The computer was fully activated online once the computer booted to the desktop for the first time. I'm wondering if dropping the ticket into this path would work as well: $OEM$\$1\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\clipsvc\genuineticket\GenuineTicket.xml The only difference I could really see with my method of using CLUpdater in the SetupComplete.cmd and dropping the ticket directly in the genuine ticket folder is that CLUpdater turns off the ClipSVC service before it copies the ticket to the proper directory.
Is this tool working with v1511?, this is last download available from MS Servers at the moment (This is NOT innsider version).
I had a problem with gatherosstate.exe so i used this CLUpdater to generate the genuineticket.xml. Is it ok to just copy paste the .xml into the programdata folder?
How does the program check that one has a "valid activated Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 system"? As far as I know my 64-bit Win7 Ultimate is activated fine, but running CLUpdater.exe gives me the following error: What gives? BTW, gatherosstate.exe by itself from the latest Win10_1511_2_English_x64.iso seems to generate the genuineticket.xml just fine, but I'll know if it works or not only after I clean install the Anniversary Update next month.
Your GenuineTicket.xml won't do you any good after July 29 which is in 4 days. If you haven't activated your free W10 upgrade by then you will be SOL. The easiest way to do this without impacting your current system is to install W10 on a VHD and activate it there using your GenuineTicket.xml. Once activated, your good to go for later installs.
Damn, and here I thought that once the XML is created I can install and activate Win10 using it at any time in future! All this is new to me so thanks for letting me know how it works. Before I install Win10 though and attempt to activate using the XML I created with gatherosstate.exe, can you or someone else tell me why CLUpdater.exe is throwing that error? It makes me nervous because if the program is detecting some sort of issue with my Win7 activation, then maybe the XML won't activate Win10 and I'll just end up wasting my time.
No idea about CLUpdater. Never had a reason to use it. All you need is gatherosstate.exe to create the ticket. After installing and booting W10, you only need to copy the ticket to the c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\ClipSVC\GenuineTicket\ directory. W10 will then activate automatically as long as you have a network connection.
Clearly CLUpdater's validation check is buggy, because I took the plunge and my genuine Win7 Ultimate resulted in genuine activated Win10 Pro as expected. I only wish I could have done only a single clean install of the Anniversary Update directly.
Thanks for this, tool works great and saves the manual cut'n'paste method, one handy thing I found using it on a old system (very very old) is that it shows what it has generated the ticket for. Normally you would expected to go Win 7 Pro/Ultimate and receive a Win 10 pro key, however on the museum piece I was playing about on it only generated a Win 10 Home key from an Ultimate install. Without the log I would of tried installing Pro and then found the key would not work but not known why. I guess the age and spec of the system is measured to an extent when gatherosstate is doing it's thing and it just decided that there was no way it would run Pro *UPDATE 22/04* Since this post I did some more testing on an older system, with CLUpdater I was getting a 10 Home key from a Win7Ult install but if I ran gatherosstate manually I would get a 10 Pro key. I tested on a couple of other systems with the same result.
