Recently a new method to bypass Windows Vista’s 30 day trial period has surfaced. With a simple registry tweak, you can take that 30-day activation deadline and bypass it! possibly forever.
How?!
Step 1. While running a copy of Windows Vista that hasn’t yet been activated, click the Start button, type regedit into the Search box, then press Enter to launch the Registry Editor.
Step 2. Explore down to the following Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows NT \ CurrentVersion \ SL
Step 3. Right-click the Registry key named SkipRearm and click Edit. The default is a Dword (a double word or 4 bytes) with a hex value of 00000000. Change this value to any positive integer, such as 00000001, save the change, and close the Registry Editor.
Step 4. Start a command prompt with administrative rights. The fastest way to do this is to click the Start button, enter cmd in the Search box, then press Ctrl+Shift+Enter. If you’re asked for a network username and password, provide the ones that log you into your domain. You may be asked to approve a User Account Control prompt and to provide an administrator password.
Step 5. Type one of the following two commands and press Enter:
slmgr -rearm
or
rundll32 slc.dll,SLReArmWindows
Either command uses Vista’s built-in Software Licensing Manager (SLMGR) to push the activation deadline out to 30 days after the command is run. Changing SkipRearm from 0 to 1 allows SLMGR to do this an indefinite number of times. Running either command initializes the value of SkipRearm back to 0.
Step 6. Reboot the PC to make the postponement take effect. (After you log in, if you like, you can open a command prompt and run the command slmgr -xpr to see Vista’s new expiration date and time.)
Enjoy!
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Dan July 13th, 2007 at 5:35 pm
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I wish this really worked, it doesnt seem to do anything and i followed the intructions, i wish it would
Varz October 17th, 2007 at 6:03 am
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Hey Dan! Use the Vista one click activation crack by team Paradox!
It totally works! By the way i have vista home premium and i used the activation crack and now my copy is activated!
Drake December 22nd, 2007 at 12:33 am
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VISTA SUX HARDCORE
Zeke December 22nd, 2007 at 1:16 am
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Just download linux. Its free, no hassle. I’m not some uber fanboy, just give it a shot. You may like it.
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major
Mkcornick December 22nd, 2007 at 7:22 am
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or try this: http://rufino-city.myminicity.com/
:evil: December 24th, 2007 at 2:02 am
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dave December 26th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
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I’m with Zeke on this one - Ubuntu is probably the simplest distro for the Linux n00b, yet it offers some pretty serious firepower to more advanced users. It’s a great distro, and every six months it just gets better.
I wouldn’t consider myself an uber fanboy either. Ubuntu is on par with XP, far superior to Win2k or Vista (and no, I didn’t screw that up… Vista is primarily composed of bloated suck and fail. It is designed to separate fools from their money, both as an OS and in its obscene hardware requirements)
John December 27th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
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I’m using Ubuntu right now. its way better then both xp and vista, both of which I have used extensively.
Stan December 30th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
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vista sucks
Leon January 8th, 2008 at 4:37 am
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Knowing Micro$oft, they’ve probably fixed this by now, and will release it in Vista SP1.
Angelo January 8th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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Vista? LOL!
Oh my GOD the worst program ever. Stay with XP!
AntiOldschoolPPL January 15th, 2008 at 5:00 am
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Angelo..
I remember there are lots of people saying the same thing.. stay with Windows2000, XP is the worst program ever.. you’re now using XP.. I’m sure you’ll stay stay with Vista.. few years later.. MUHAHAHA… old school fool
antuz March 27th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
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It worked perfetly well for me! Thanks!!!