VM's always is crappiest.. I've problems on updates on untouched systems using it anyway... I'm constantly making RILC tests on my real machine activated with a RETAIL MSDN key and it never has bricked any update.. But it can be a isolated case, I never do reinstalling the license files on my Advanced Tokens Manager, only if the system hasn't been activated then I programatically read all XRM-MS as byte in memory, and use the InstallLicense method from WMI giving the ASCII Byte Array to it. RILC reinstalls all licenses, it's the safer method from SLMGR.VBS, that's really coded by Microsoft.. I never seen that problem on a real machine, also can be occurs on Windows Media Center systems, that have two Product Names instead of one, it is unclear for me.
ace2 code is damn redundant and has many obsolet lines. josh code (sry josh) doesn't make sense at all at this point. also the () is confusing and pointless. just registry for ignored reg key. thanks for confirm. rilc works with no problems in w7 but w8 there seems a bug, I already posted in ms forum a few days ago. (will sleep now)
It points C hierarchy, and make the code a bit more understandable for the community... It don't take any effect on the code. Starting and Stopping the SPPSVC, you're forcing the service to make all changes to the Tokens.dat file. NET STOP waits for the service stops, this delay means that the service requires more time to save all changes.
Hmmm, it can be useful for propagating the change... BTW: I can confirm problems with /rilc on real machine after the clean install (I've alarmed MS on MS Answers COM already)...
I'll take a look around the Windows Media Center edition of the Windows 8 Pro and give feedbacks here, I only have tested with the PRO-RETAIL version.. It's a really bigger fail when occurs on all machines, I'll also look on my custom RILC using WMI methods... Thanks for that.
Sry, but this depends on the action. - Not generally true. Example (and please take this as a fact) e.g. deleting or changing an XRM and stop/start services has no effect on the tokens.dat content. deleting / changing and runnning the task I posted does have an effect. (this may also makes the rilc command while replacing useless - but not tested) There are different functions/option that can be triggered by spp.
Skip-Start Manually: NEED TO: Show hidden files Install TakeOwnership 1. Goto C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\ppdlic - Cut & Paste explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms to Desktop Goto C:\Windows\System32\spp\store - DELETE tokens.dat 2.cmds - Run As Admin: slmgr.vbs /ilc %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms timeout /T 30 >nul NOTES: Wait for timeout /T 30 >nul to finish before doing 3. 3.Goto C:\Windows\System32\spp\store - Cut & Paste tokens.dat to Desktop 4.Open tokens.dat on Desktop with Notepad - Select Edit/Find/Find what:login/Find Next/explorer-ClientLoginExperienceAllowed">1< - Change >1< to >0< & Save. 5.Cut & Paste tokens.dat from Desktop back to C:\Windows\System32\spp\store (Replacing tokens.dat if its there) 6.Regedit: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Server] "ClientExperienceEnabled"=dword:00000000 7.Sign out & Sign out again. (If not working Repeat Steps 1.(tokens.dat) to 5.) NOTES: "ClientExperienceEnabled"=dword:00000000 (Desktop) "ClientExperienceEnabled"=dword:00000001 (Start Screen) How to Restore: Cut & Paste explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms from Desktop back to C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\ppdlic Regedit: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Server] "ClientExperienceEnabled"=dword:00000001 ace2.
Can you explain what your tutorial is doing ? You move "explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms" to desktop and use command slmgr.vbs /ilc. Why do you do this with the desktop file of "explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms" ? Why can't this be done with the file on it's original position in "C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\ppdlic" ? Can the file "explorer-ppdlic.xrm-ms" be deleted after the command slmgr.vbs /ilc ? You write that Windows 8 Activation is untouched. I tried the tutorial step by step and after this activation is gone.