Activation - credit goes to Chris123NT at VinylZine Stop software protection service Replace pkeyconfig.xrm-ms with the one from build 7232/7231 located at C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig Replace tokens.dat with the one from build 7232/7231 located at C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform Restart software protection service RC Key should now work and activate.
Just a word of advice - beware since it would make your OS a 'frankenbuild' and it is easly traceable for Microsoft to blacklist such builds. I strongly recommend anyone to back up your tokens and pkeyconfig files.
copy and paste this save as a .bat file and put into a folder with your 2 files and select run as admin: Code: net stop sppsvc /y takeown /f "%WinDir%\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms" cacls "%WinDir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" /e /g everyone:f cacls "%WinDir%\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms" /e /g everyone:f ren "%WinDir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" "tokens.bak" ren "%WinDir%\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.xrm-ms" "pkeyconfig.bak" copy tokens.dat "%WinDir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\" copy pkeyconfig.xrm-ms "%WinDir%\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\" del "%WinDir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareLicensing\tokens.bak" del "%WinDir%\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\pkeyconfig.bak" net start sppsvc cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ipk <insert a key here> cscript %windir%\system32\slmgr.vbs -ato
I would remove the red-marked lines(in order to keep the backups), anyway - should work, just add that the <insert a key here> should be filled with an actual RC key