Vista Enterprise Key

  • Thread starter Thread starter Ron Williams
  • Start date Start date
There's obviously a reason Microsoft even makes it
possible to reset the OOB (out of box) or initial grace period.
Your reason sounds as valid as any.

Regardless of the reason, it will allow you more time
to get the needed info/key.


-Michael
 
MICHAEL said:
In an elevated command prompt type:
slmgr -rearm
Click to expand...


Oh my god! Thank you so much. That's one hell of a thing to know about.
Now I won't have to reinstall once more before I can buy a licence.

ss.
 
I've already seen what happens after you do not activate it for 30 days.
You are only able to open IE7, and it shows a page with instructions for
activation. There is no Taskbar or Start Menu, but I was able to open
folders by typing in the location in the IE address bar. Basically, the
computer is pretty much unusable, but I was able to run programs to back
files up before reinstalling the OS. I'll have to go through this process
one more time before I can buy a key when Vista is released.
Click to expand...

OK, thanks very much :-)

I've just finished re-installing XP, there's too many show stoppers in
Vista for me at the moment.
 
IE7 will function for one hour. Enough time for the user to get activated,
if need be by phone.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
Oh my god! Thank you so much. That's one hell of a thing to know about. Now I won't have to
reinstall once more before I can buy a licence.
Click to expand...

You're welcome. It seems there are those who know about this
but don't ever volunteer the info- like it's "top secret" or something.

Microsoft would have thought this through- if they didn't want this to
be used, the ability to do so would not have been included. The information
is documented and freely available.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/plan/faq.mspx
 
Wow! 24 Posts for what I'm just not sure.

1) Nice command Michael. Question to Synapse and Ron--**********Did this
command in the run box get you reupped for another 30 days of trial prior to
the Kill Switch or not?**********

slmgr -rearm would take about 3 seconds.

Did it work???

2) Why would so many MVPs who received a complementary RTM already have so
many different descriptions of reduced functionality mode in Vista? Are you
seeing it? LOL! Could it be MSFT wouldn't send you enough free RTM Vista
for all of your myriads of boxes? Here's MSFT's description of the kill
switch. They left off the fact they are defendants over it in the Eastern
District of Washington and many of the other 93 federal district courts in
the U.S. now.

The behavior of reduced functionality mode in Windows Vista (MSFT's
description of it)
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925582/en-us

MSFT's legal staff is setting a corporate ABA record that is unprecedented
for paying the opposing attorney's fees and loss after they litigate. LOL
Don't be a wussie--push MSFT back when they try to scre people. Yes they
have a right to defend against piracy; no they don't have the right to keep
phoning home to Redmond. If someone doesn't want to buy their software,
they hundreds of other OS's they could use. But MSFT does not have the
right to keep invading their privacy. Many of us give a ton of info to MSFT
but we ***choose to do it when we do it. And the EULA is at issue before
someone invokes it; it demands to be able to do things it shouldn't legally
be doing.

3) Ron your licensing lady is simply being incompetent and she lends a new
paradigm to quintissential futzing around. You should have had the
enterprise key a long time ago. Simply call 1-800-MICROSOFT and get a
licensing person and give them the name of your company. They have SQL
servers and virtual servers. They can get off their ass and find the info
you need to get the key.

CH
 
LOL Jeff. On behalf of the smart innovative people of Mozilla, I apologize.
I thought IE 7 was supposed to accomodate FF and MSFT had buried the hatchet
a little bit and promised there would be accomodation for FF viewing. Guess
not. The IE team did a lot of blogging about their MSFT's accomodating
other web pages--guess from IE7 but not from the Fox.

I love FF for its options though and its fast response to problems cf. with
Redmond we'll get to it in a few months soft. No there are literally
hundreds of OS's but not usually used by consumers I'll grant you. Many of
the large companies make many--HP makes OS's for specific uses for example.

There was a guy on tech tv that had 30 os's on his box.

CH
 
Chad Harris said:
*Did this command in the run box get you reupped for another 30 days of
trial prior to the Kill Switch or not?*
Did it work???
Click to expand...

Yes, it works fine. But you don't use the run box. As Michael said in his
first post, you launch a command prompt with elevated privledges. (Right
Click and choose "Launch As Administrator"). After a few seconds a dialog
box will popup saying that it completed and you need to reboot. When you
reboot, you will be back to the initial state where the system is reporting
that it will try it's first auto-activation in 3-days.
 
That's a useful command. It buys you the time to get hold of the PK. I
like to collect commands from the cmd prompt and the run box.

Sometimes they are the same, and sometimes not.

Come Tuesday, give MSFT a call at the 1-800-MICROSOFT number and see if they
can help you out. Not bo be too harsh with the licensing person that you
work with, but I would think this could be easily straightened out for you.

Good luck,

CH
 
Back
Top