Preserving oem activation in windows vista and windows 7

Would this be the thread you are referring to? At the end of the thread I just referenced, I posted a tool that is capable of SLP activating OEM Vista and 7 installations, as well as a brief description of why it works. See my post here. I use this tool on a regular basis, and it may help others here as well. I attached an updated version of it to this post. It wasn't general consensus that you had to activiate via phone, it was general consuses that people didn't copy their OEM certs off the computer before re-installing Windows.

They were basically trying to activate a VLK. The key on the sticker isn't the same key that OEMs use. Once installed I ran the tool. The process of license installation began, but after installing the license the tool gave an error popup. The process cannot continue.

Luckily the sticker on the bottom of the laptop was still there and readable, so I inserted the product key written on it and at last I activated Windows 7. Maybe it was a problem of my computer, but I reported you this perhaps bug to help you improve this really useful tool. This is a great disappointment to me as I suffer from a pre-installed Win 7 that Toshiba did not provide me with a Windows Product Key for. This little program looked like an efficient solution.

I hope this site has not been hacked or hijacked. Thanks for the info. No, there is nothing wrong with the file, it creates false positives because of what it does. Of course you are free not to use it of you feel uneasy. That tool has been around since and has been used by millions of people without issue. Yet the AVs on VT love to classify it as malicious without really knowing why. The other FPs are simply created by using the AutoIt scripting language, some AV software mis-classifies a lot of perfectly legit software because it was created in AutoIt.

If you could point me to anything sinister you think might be going on, I will be happy to answer your questions. It only uses a built in Microsoft tool Slmgr. Heh, you almost sound like one of those crackers and warez group….. Developers are fighting a losing battle with places like VirusTotal because they give the wrong impression programs are unsafe.

The scanners used for these services are command line versions which produce different results to the desktops versions. Read about the troubles the famous Nir Sofer of Nirsoft has had with false positives on his tools over the years to see the problem. Ay yes, I know NirSoft…. You would think so but the definitions in VirusTotal and those in your antivirus can be vastly different and produce very different results, as explained in the VirusTotal FAQs.

These sites should be used as a pointer or extra piece of information, the results should not be taken as fact, which is what a lot of people wrongly do. Thank you. They maybe one out there but I never made one because there was no call for it at the time. Your best bet might be to look over at MyDigitalLife. Thanks to writers like you and the age of the blogs. Microsoft secrets are expose and less money they are getting while they were trying to squeeze every penny they can from unsuspecting customers.

Unfortunately in our society the unique thing that really matter for people is money. It ultimately resolves to raymondcc. Great post i have really been looking for this tool for my laptop. But though i use vista,i still make backups online oftenly with safecopybackup.

This because i know anything can happen to my laptop and i may lose my files and i also fear data recovery because they are expensive and so costly. But with safecopy,if i delet any file of mine by mistake,i can recover them back by just a few clicks. Each OEM disc installs everything that you see on that laptop. Including drivers. Just grab 1 and install the version that came with the laptop.

Wow, exactly what I was looking for. Activate Windows now'. I am asking because I started a new job that requires re-installing every version of windows on various computers that have OEM and retail versions. The information I gathered on various forums is rather scattered and contradicting, this is why I am posting this seemingly stupid question that you may think has been answered a million times.

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