Windows 8 KMS Activation

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and in english too
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Is there a guide somewhere or do you think someone will be making one on how to install and activate Win 8 with links for someone like myself who hasn't been following this thread for weeks or months? I've tried reading through this and many other threads today and the amount of information to sift through is staggering. The win 7 section had a thread like that that pretty much walked you through the complete process from start to finish with links to what was needed. Thanks for any information or a point in the right direction.

 

Guys, what hardware compatibility versions are known to work with this tokens.dat for VMware?

 

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Code:

slgmr -upk

Code:

slmgr -ipk 32...-.....-.....-.....-CWCK7

Code:

slmgr -ato

Code:

slmgr -ckms

 

try opening the command prompt as admin and enter

Code:

sfc /scannow

And then try again?

 

For info how to simply activate your Win 8, check starting post.

 

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I am loving this, I can finally activate all my home network myself Many thanks to all involved

 

For those, who installed the first issue of W8 RTM, which was in english only and after this loaded the local language pack, can be said, that some of you might have trouble with proper time zone setup. As detected heavily in the past, many KMS activation attempts fail due to impropper time zone adjustmets out of a range of 4 hours to the needed setting. When setting up a new W8 OS, on the blue setup page 1, the 2nd dropdown menue in the middle, you can adjust your local time and currency if you don't use the single language version of your W8 as of your position. So please check on this before using KMS service !!

 

Thank you very much! At first glance this seems much much easier than I had expected. I'm off to give this a try I hope it works. thanks again

 

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thank you for the nice write up!

 

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Appeared to be a proper way to get rid of that chaos in my head, by trying to bring all these little pieces, provided all over here, in an order. May be at least it can help others now a bit.
Regards


EDIT: Corrected a mistake in client-part of my little essay. No NEED to install any patches, my bad. Try edited version.

 

and get the key to match your installation. Once you have that, enter this into the command prompt. This step might not be needed if you use Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise. You cannot activate a CORE install of Win8 with KMS btw.


What is a CORE install exactly? So I shouldn't install a Pro or Enterprise version then?

 

I overlooked one small point when doing the win 8 kms server activaton backup in advance tokens manager is for win8 ultimate I have only got pro x64 so I cant add the activation

 

There is no win 8 ultimate, only win 8, pro and enterprise. What´s the problem.

 

sorry i meant Enterprise

I try to restore the tokens and it says this backup is for a different version of windows