Hack Windows Vista Activation

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Friday, December 19, 2008

How miserly is that Windows Vista gives you only one month of trial for a whole damn Operating system? I can understand it for a registry cleaner or an antivirus software. But for an OS, isn’t it too low? So here is a legal way to increase it and forget about registering by pay.

  1. check the activation expiry date with the command: slmgr -xpr
  2. Go to bottom left corner
  3. Navigate to this path:
    HKLM\SOFTWARE \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SL
  4. Double-click SkipRearm and change the value to 1.
  5. Note: this registry hack does not make any sense on a machine which has already been activated!
  6. Now remember to run the 30 day extension command: slmgr -rearm
  7. Restart the machine.  After it reboots, run slmgr -xpr and check the expiry date.
  8. Check the registry setting SkipRearm, slmgr resets the value to zero.

[Note: we don't encourage you to use these techniques (taken from computerperformance.co.uk) because we do not practice them ourselves. But if you do, don't forget to leave a feedback and also before playing with the registry do not forget to make a backup]

Discussion

abhi
January 21, 2010: 5:44 am

use regedit command in run dialog box to open registry editor


moudi
December 31, 2009: 2:22 am

i like your stile man.but i am not sure i understood how to hack the activation process.please help.i searched the whole folder windows.but i did not find [registry editor]


varun sen
November 6, 2009: 2:45 pm

i simply like it extremly

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