Fix Windows 7 Activation Status Not Available or SLMgr 0×80070422 Error
Windows 7 displays the system activation status in System Properties, which can be accessed via Control Panel -> System and Security -> System. However, sometimes, Windows activation may display error message which saying activation status not available, together with product ID which is also not available.
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6.11.2009 Unlimited ReArm Patch
Automatic patch for Vista RTM. Current 3 people have reported that this has worked for them.
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26.11.2006 Rearm and Extend Activation Grace Period in Windows Vista and Server 2008
Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has free activation grace period which allows user to install and use the operating system for 120 days and 240 days without product key or product activation completed.
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8.6.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Free Usage Activation Grace Period of Windows 7 to 120 Days
Windows 7 (SeVeN) is probably going to continue the trial software trend that starts with Windows Vista’s rearm, that user can install Windows 7 without any product key for free usage of 30 days as evaluation period.
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5.11.2008 How to Rearm and Extend Office 2010 Activation Grace Period for Free 180 Days Usage
Microsoft has implemented product activation scheme named Office Protection Platformm (OPP) that similar with Windows Product Activation (WPA) and Software Protection Platform (SPP) for Windows Vista and Windows Activation Technologies (WAT) Windows 7 in Microsoft Office 2010, where all copy of Office 2010 installed has to be activated, with 30 days activation grace period.
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3.9.2009Windows Vista Grace Period Extended to 120 Days
Every Vista DVD includes the
ability to install any edition
of Vista without a product
key. When you install without
a product key, you get an
automatic 30 day evaluation
period. This probably isn't
news to anyone.
What may be news
to you, however, is that you
can easily extend the 30-day
Windows Vista grace period to
120 days. No hacks required.
This is an official, supported
operation directly from
Microsoft.
To extend the grace period
another 30 days, simply start
a command prompt as
Administrator, and issue this
command:
slmgr -rearm
Reboot for the
change to take effect, and
voila, you have 30 more days.
You can only extend three
times, so the total grace
period for a Vista evaluation
is 120 days.
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01.02.2007GameStop baffles Wall Street with good earnings, bad forecast
GameStop exceeded its projected income in the third quarter so much that it threw off analysts' projections for the fourth quarter...
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21.11.2007Jango celebrates one million users with widget
Jango, the "social jukebox" site which launched in public beta in November, announced today that it has already exceeded the one million user
mark...
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16.01.2008PDC 2008: First look at 'Dublin,' .NET for the cloud
Interest in how Microsoft would deploy an extension of the .NET Framework called Dublin in the cloud exceeded anyone's expectations today, as
thousands of attendees spilled over into a spare room to watch the first Dublin demos...
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28.10.2008Mozilla: 1.6 million downloads and counting
Early Tuesday evening, the Mozilla organization gave BetaNews an update on its quest to have posted the single most downloaded (tracked) software item
in a single day, having exceeded Firefox 2's single-day mark in just five hours' time...
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18.06.2008Akamai profit up by double digits
Internet acceleration-and-management firm Akamai announced on Wednesday that the company's fourth-quarter profit exceeded analysts' estimates,
climbing 13% year-to-year. As announced in November, the company will lay off 110...
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05.02.2009Windows Server 2008 KMS Setup Demonstration
This video demonstrates how to implement the Key Management Service (KMS) in your organization. KMS is a local activation service, and is the
recommended method of activating volume license editions of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 in organizations where most computers are
consistently connected to the network. This demo shows how to set up the KMS host on a Windows Server 2008 computer, how to activate KMS clients with
the KMS host, and how to review activation status using the slmgr.vbs command.
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06.02.2008Gartner: Acer gains big worldwide, Apple gains in US
Research firm Gartner has released its third quarter 2008 results for the personal computer market, showing that in the US, Apple shipments exceeded
Acer, the company with the biggest growth in worldwide market share...
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16.10.2008Official Way to Use Vista without Activation 120 Days
Official Way to Install and
Use Windows Vista without
Activation for Free for 120
Days
By default,
Windows Vista can be
installed, used and run
without any license, product
key or the need of activation
for 30 days grace period, for
purpose of trial or
evaluation. Although Microsoft
initially stressed that users
should purchase a license with
valid product key before the
trial period expires, or else
Windows Vista will lock into
Reduced Functionality Mode.
However, a "rearm" method
has long since been discovered
to be able to extend, or reset
the remaining time for
activation to another fresh 30
days, for up to 3 times.
Now Microsoft has
confirmed that Windows Vista
can be used and run for 120
days or 4 months ( 3
rearms ), and extending the
activation grace period is not
a violation of the Vista End
User License Agreement (EULA).
All versions of Vista include
Windows Vista Ultimate allow a
30-day free period without
activation, except the
corporate-oriented Vista
Enterprise, which supports
only a three-day trial.
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22.02.2007NASA: it snows on Mars
When NASA sent two rovers to Mars they were not quite sure what all they would find. What they ended up finding far exceeded expectations and has
proven that the possible foundations for life do exist on other planets. The scientists were eventually able to conclude that cloud formations do
form on the planet and they can, in fact, make it snow on Mars. Scientists were able to observe this phenomenon using the LIDAR instrument (Light
Detection and Ranging). "But the really amazing data came from the LIDAR instrument, which was able to track the formation of the clouds at the
atmosphere's boundary layer.
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06.07.2009Microsoft internal slideshow for retailers targets Linux
It's no secret that companies will do anything to get ahead of their competitors. It's a given, especially in the world of business.
Never-the-less, it always seems to stir up a bit of fuss when the tactics are revealed to the public, regardless of what form they're in. A member
of the Overclock.net forums (link goes to a mirror, as the original has gone down due to exceeded bandwidth), who is an employee of Best Buy, has
uploaded slides from a Microsoft presentation intended for the company, showing what they want workers to say about Linux.
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08.09.2009Microsoft Office System 2007 Beta Ends
We are thrilled with the
incredible excitement around
the upcoming 2007 Microsoft
Office system as is evident by
over 3 million people
installing the Beta 2 and
later Beta2TR builds. With
your help, we have far
exceeded our technical
participation goals.
At this time, we are pleased
to announce that the 2007
Office system will be released
to manufacturing (RTM) in the
next few weeks. We thank you
for your participation in the
planning, development, and
testing of this new release.
As we approach the end of the
beta testing phase of Office
2007, we would like to make
you aware of several upcoming
events that will affect you.
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06.10.2006Windows Vista (In)capable
Robin Harris: What went wrong? Ill tell you what went wrong: Microsoft execs - starting with Steve Ballmer - dont care enough about their customers.
Which is too bad for the thousands of smart, hard working softies who do.
I went through the Vista Capable lawsuit Exhibit A
emails. Lots of warnings that Vista was a train wreck, that its requirements exceeded the market, that the continual changes and slips were killing
OEMs and that many peripheral vendors had simply given up trying to stay in sync.
Where was Steve?
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03.03.2008Laptop shipments top desktops for first time; Netbooks a factor
Global notebook shipments exceeded desktops on a quarterly basis for the first time ever, with Netbooks playing a decisive role, iSuppli said on
Tuesday.
Notebook PC shipments rose almost 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008 over the same period in 2007, hitting 38.6
million units, said iSuppli, a market research firm based in El Segundo, Calif.
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24.12.2008Run KMS on Server 2008, and which keys to use when activating Server 2008
Michael Greene: The documentation for volume activation 2.0 has been updated today for Server 2008. You can find it here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75674 Running KMS on
Server 2008 is functionally very similar to running it on Vista RTM. You leverage slmgr.vbs to bring the service online and then clients find
the server based on the DNS srv record. BTW, Server 2008 KMS can be run within a virtual environment.
If you want to know
which volume license keys to use when activating new machines running Server 2008, see page 19 in the Planning Guide and the
FAQ. You only need to put one key in your KMS, and it
will handle requests from both Vista and Server 2008. There are separate keys, and unique keys based on which version of server you need to
activate. Before you get excited - this is much easier to understand than it might first seem. Simply decide the "top" version
of Server 2008 you might install and then use that MKS key to activate the service on a 2008 server. All versions in groups below that version
will also activate off that key. The groups are simple...
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29.02.2008Security vuln auction site pulls in research
A controversial marketplace for security exploits and vulnerabilities said it has exceeded expectations with the submission of more than 150
vulnerabilities in its first two months of operations.
WabiSabiLabi encourages security researchers to sell their findings to
vetted buyers. Herman Zampariolo, chief exec of WSLabi which runs the WabiSabiLabi marketplace, said that the quality of the submitted vulnerabilities
is as important as their quantity.
Vulnerabilities on the marketplace have had selling prices ranging between 100 to 15,000 euros
each. So far 1,000 sellers (researchers) have registered on the site.
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13.10.2007PDC 2009: Scuttling huge chunks of Vista architecture for a faster Windows 7
The reason Windows Vista seemed slow, and somehow, strangely seemed even slower over time, is now abundantly clear to Microsoft's architects: The
evolution of computer hardware , particularly the CPU, exceeded anyone's expectations at the time of Vista's premiere in early 2007. But the
surge in virtualization, coupled with the rise of the multicore era, produced a new reality where suddenly Vista found itself managing systems with
more than 64 total cores...
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17.11.2009700MHz spectrum auction wraps up, tops $19.5 billion
After nearly two months, the Federal Communication Commissions 700MHz spectrum auction has come to an end. Bidding far exceeded the FCC's preauction
hopes of $10 billion to $15 billion, with the final tally coming in at $19,592,420,000. The auction ended this afternoon with a terse announcement by
the Commission that there were no "bids, withdrawals, or proactive activity rule waivers" during round 261. "Therefore, Auction 73 has closed under
the simultaneous stopping rule."
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19.03.2008Adobe to unveil its second edition of PDF Print Engine
The PostScript era may at last have shuffled off its mortal coil, as the next generation of Adobe's printing workflow and reproduction system for PDF
gets set to roll out to OEMs this summer.
At one time -- longer ago than it sometimes seems -- the software print engine of the
modern world was based around PostScript, and Adobe was on top of the world as the champion of that format. The first editions of PDF were perceived
as not so much an encapsulated PostScript but as an abbreviated alternative to it, mostly for ordinary text documents. But as that standard evolved
into the format of choice for Web-based brochures and marketing literature, its capability to reproduce images and graphics eventually exceeded that
of PostScript.
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30.05.2008'Digital Universe' 10 percent bigger than predicted
IDC has measured the size of the "digital universe" -- all the digital data stored globally -- and it is 10 percent bigger than first predicted and
will be 10 times bigger again by 2011.
IDC said the scope of the digital universe has now reached 281 billion GB and its future
growth will force enterprises to adapt to ever-increasing storage demands.
According to the company, 2007 was the first year the
digital data being generated exceeded the amount of storage available.
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