Windows 8 KMS Activation

A buggy version is hard to deal with and normally I would suggest a clean install from scratch without any additional AV or such software and activate it with MTK.
On the other hand, you can wait until other members check your report and can deal with it better than I can.
As I don't know, what you have done with your setup since you run it, diagnosis is very difficult. Perhaps a system restore could help but this is almost the same as a new installation.
Wait for others to deal with the issue. Sorry but I have no more ideas on it. Good luck

 

Thanks a lot for your help.
I'll wait till other members respond.
Anyway what is the AntiVirus that you use?

 

Just the one which came with windoze and I will never use anything else except brain.exe
Perhaps you can try to uninstall all Antivirus software completely with the appropriate removal tools from the authors and try again but I only have little hope that it helps. Maybe worth a last try ...

 

Can it be because of faulty NTFS file permissions? If yes, how to reset these permissions to default settings.
Also I observe that the Special Permission check box is grayed out.

 

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I'm trying to set up a local KMS server in my own LAN so I do not have to install activators on each windows machine separately.
But I am confused which tool to use? There are so many of them...
Ideally I want to install a service on my Win2012 Core server (because it runs 24/7) so that it can be used as a KMS host.

 

honestly, I'd ran an MTK or similar tool on each machine to be independent of any kind of host

 

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I did what GreatGrand want to do and it is working well. I installed kms server service from MTK on a machine that runs 24/7. All the other computers on my lan contact it for activation. The only issue I found was the client machines would not auto-renew if I specified the server by IP address (slmgr /skms 192.168.1.5:1688). Yes, the server does have a static IP. Opening an administrator command prompt on a client machine and entering "slmgr /ato" worked every time. I finally resolved the problem by configuring the client machines to access the server by name rather than IP address (slmgr /skms bob-pc:1688).

 

Okay, so far I have tried
KMS Server Service by Hotbird64 1.3 by Hotbird64

but it doesn't work under Server Core, because it uses various calls (memcpy, malloc, rand etc.) to CRTDLL.DLL which apparently doesn't exist on Server Core 2012.

Edit:
KMS Server Service by deagles 1.4 does seem to work under Server Core.

 

My service v1.4 uses msvcrt.dll and it logs requests in eventlog.

Eventlog entries:

Code:

Application and Service Logs -> Key Management Service

Random pids are useless until ms release a wga update, but you can create your own if you want:

Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\KMSServerService\Parameters\Windows

 

I see. I hadn't looked carefully enough. I'll change my previous post accordingly. Sorry for the misinformation.

 

KMS Service is running fine on Server 2012 Essentials, none problem to activate all my LAN machines

 

Guys, is there any working KMS server online for Windows 8? I have been looking for it since many days now. I know about the toolkits out there, but I prefer a simple KMS server over them. So can anyone give a helping hand? Thanks

 

Since MTK and other tools are arround, the open servers went down dramatically. Why do you refuse to use a local service which gives you the same result independently of any online server available or not?
Your system is not harmed in any way and so far I cannot see any reason not to work with the tools

 

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