Hi, I think that a lot of people,including myself first, are not being told (because the instructions only mentioned for WIN 7) that you must stop SPPSVC service!!!!!!!! FIRST, then run ATM. I am quite sure that is the drama. See below my success with the manual method QUOTE Easy way to restore activation manually on windows 8. Booting to safe boot not required. 1. Check SPPSVC service is running or not . Run Command Net Stop SPPSVC. This will stop service if running. System schedule the Software Protection service to run at intervals & you will not find it always running. 2. Go to folder C:\Windows\System32\SPP\Store & delete tokens.dat & data.dat. now go to C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\cache & delete cache.dat 3. Now Copy downloaded activation files tokens.dat & data.dat. to C:\Windows\System32\SPP\Store cache.dat to C:\Windows\System32\spp\store\cache 4. Make sure the files are not read only in step 3. 5. Install the host key. 6. Check to see if windows is activited. For me these steps worked. UNQUOTE I have now installed WIN 8 Ent in another physical machine and not VM and works as genuine as anything(THIS IS A CLIENT, OK?) then contacted my KMS internally and activated. Downloaded 426 megs of uopdate and all is well. SLMGR /DLV tells me I have my 180 days........................
Lol. same for me. I have a few dreamspark and TechNet keys and have not used any of them. It is much more enjoyable to activate without any cash. Being able to run our own activation servers is so ironic. You know if MS would have allowed me to purchase keys when Win 8 went rtm I would have spent my money on it.
I am with you on this I am not that impressed with win8 and will properly stay with 7 as my main OS as you said the fun of it is to just be able to activate without having to pay money which I don't have Its a bit like fishing for non edible fish you are not going to eat them you just want to go through the motions and catch the big one
Sure it is. It is also possible to add Windows 8 Professional N, Windows 7 Enterprise N, Windows 7 Professional N, Windows 7 Enterprise E, Windows 7 Professional E, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Business N, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Enterprise N ...
Only few days left until the entire world owns W8. Waiting for new threads about how to get activation back after heavily played around with the new toy. KMS then probably will not be the first thing to be talked about. Waiting for action coming from MS against mooo for example. I cannot imagine that this host will be kept online for ever. There will be some measurements to come up not knowing which, but guys be prepared ... and make your own server ... lol
Sorry for this, but your words are b*****it, you don't read other comments forums round the web? Only few days left until the small part of the world owns W8 sounds better, in a few years maybe your words become nearly real(entire world except me )
It is a pity when some guys do not catch the irony of one's saying and shout out loud that it is bulls**t
Misunterpretation of irony.... Sup i'm a dumb don't getting the irony part of it.... but i laughed at it.... not shouted out loud... I'm sorry man