Oh noes! My trial Windows license expired. Here is the initial snapshot windows license expired to begin with. Never fear, I can extend the trial period by running the following command from an administrative command prompt.
We need to reboot the system for the changes to take effect. My journey as a tester started at Sun Microsystems now Oracle.
I was part of the testing and sustaining team for the Portal Server and Identity Management products. My first assignment was to test the Rewriter module.
I enjoyed understanding the big picture, writing test cases, finding bugs and sometimes suggesting the fix too! If any thing else, use the file tab of explorer. To automatically avoid activation loop: since activation is no longer available After trial period runs out for new install , When notifified that activation is neccessary to access windows XP: 1 Restart computer 2 Hold down F8 key to enter safemode menu 3 Choose safemode with command prompt 4 Cancel any new hardware install request 5 At prompt type in "explorer.
Run batch file, then restart computer. When the days get low just run the batch file and the the trial period is reset after restart. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. I am still in the activation loop. How satisfied are you with this reply? Software Licensing Management Tool slmgr is a VBS file in Windows against which you can run slmgr commands to perform advanced Windows activation tasks. You will use Command Prompt in order to enter the slmgr commands or slmgr switches.
To display very basic license and activation information about the current system, run the following command. Use this slmgr command to see if Windows is activated. Use the following command:. To display more detailed license information—including the activation ID, installation ID, and other details—run the following command:.
If you installed Windows from a retail license and would like to use that license on another computer, this allows you to remove the license. Use this slmgr command to remove the product key from Windows Registry.
Doing this will not delete the key from your computer or un-activated Windows, but it will prevent key finder programs and malicious tools from being able to retrieve the key. To remove uninstall the current product key, run the following command, and then restart your computer:. This option is really designed to prevent the key from being stolen by malware if malware running on the current system gains access to the registry.
You can use slmgr. If the Windows system already has a product key, using the below command will silently replace the old product key with the one you provide. Microsoft advises you to restart the computer after running this command in order to fully apply the new key. If the system is set up to use a KMS activation server, it will instead attempt activation with the KMS server on the local network. Click on the Triggers tab and hit the New button. On the New Trigger tab, select Daily and Recur every 29 days since activation is required 30 days after a reset and hit OK.
Click on the Actions tab and hit New. Enter in slmgr. Enter in -rearm in the arguments box and hit OK. Hit OK to save the settings for the new task you created. Now you are ready for the second registry key change that will allow you to run the slmgr. Enter in a name for the new task such as "Slmgr Reset ".
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