All of you who got Vista some time in January - say 24th like I did in Microcenter, if you haven't activated it yet and are running in a 30 day trial period - you all know it's soon to expire.
Now, if you need more time to decide if you should use keep it or return it, do not bother activating just yet - you can prolong the activation up to 120 days!
It's quite simple really, so here is the deal:
- Open start menu, type in cmd, but don't hit the enter just yet. Hold down the [CTRL] + [SHIFT] and then click on the [ENTER] button. This will run the command prompt in the elevated (i.e. administrator) mode.
- You have to switch the command-line shell handler in order not to get annoying errors etc, so type the following command and press [Enter]: cscript /h:cscript
- Now, it's time to rearm the activation, effectively adding another 30 days to the trial. Type the following followed by the [Enter] key of course:
slmgr -rearm - That's it ... Restart your computer and another 30 days will be added.
Via: WindowsSecrets.com
Comments (3)
vb script runtime error: permission denied
Posted by fuck | March 9, 2007 11:12 AM
Posted on March 9, 2007 11:12
You are not running the CMD line with administrative priviledges - make sure to follow the instructions Exactly as they are written. It works ;)
Posted by Petar Smilajkov | March 9, 2007 11:24 PM
Posted on March 9, 2007 23:24
wtf? I did this and now it says
"3 day(s) until automanic activation."
o.O What does that mean???
Posted by Eddie | April 12, 2007 10:30 PM
Posted on April 12, 2007 22:30