The feature was toughened up for Vista, however after the grace period, non-activated PCs running Vista dropped into what Microsoft called "reduced functionality" mode.
Microsoft introduced product activation in 2001's Office XP and also used it in that year's Windows XP. "Rearm is the same in Windows 7 as in Vista," noted Brian Livingston, the editor of Windows Secrets, in an interview yesterday. Windows Secrets and others published information about the same grace period extension two years ago, shortly after Microsoft launched Vista.
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Nor is extending the grace period a violation of the Windows 7 End User License Agreement (EULA), the spokeswoman said. "This means a total of 120 days total time is available as a grace period to customers that take advantage of -rearm," said a company spokeswoman. Microsoft confirmed that "-rearm" can be used as many as three times by Windows 7 users to avoid activation. Leonard tested the command on Windows 7 RTM (release to manufacturing), the final build of the operating system that Microsoft has already shipped to computer makers and distributed to IT professionals and developers who subscribe to the TechNet and MSDN services. "If you perform a -rearm at the end of each 30-day period, you end up with 120 days of full, unfettered Windows 7 use, without having to supply an activation key." "You can run the -rearm trick a total of three times," said Leonard. During days 28 and 29, the pop-up displays every four hours, while on Day 30, it appears hourly.īut by invoking the "slmgr -rearm" command at a Windows 7 command prompt, users can reset the time-until-activation to 30 days, said Woody Leonard, a contributing editor to Windows Secrets and the author of several computer books, including Windows Vista All-in-One Desk Reference for Dummies. For example, on days four through 27, a pop-up asks the user to activate once each day. As the grace period shrinks, however, increasingly-frequent messages appear on the screen. During the 30-day grace period, Windows 7 operates as if it has been activated.
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Microsoft allows users to install and run any version of Windows 7 for up to 30 days without requiring a product activation key, a 25-character alphanumeric string that proves the copy is legitimate.
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