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Activate windows and get rid of 30-day trial...


miinaturvat

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Not entirely sure if people already know about this or not, but I thought I'd post it here, since it helped me earlier today for my XP Virtual Machine, and will probably come in useful for others, too :)

 

I'm not taking any credit for the discovery of this, but I wrote it myself :D

 

 

Activate Windows

 

1) Open Regedit. go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents".

 

2) Change "OOBETimer"'s value to "FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD".

 

3) Within Regedit, right-click the 'WPAEvents' directory and select 'Permissions'.

 

4) For the SYSTEM group, deny 'Full Control' by clicking the appropriate check-box, then hit OK.

 

5) Close Regedit. Windows is now validated. No more 30-day trial!

 

 

It works on XP, not sure about Vista, though.

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