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How to use Windows 7 without activation for one year!

Posted By: Gaurav Sood | Sep 4 2010

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Normally you can’t use your copy of Windows 7/Vista operating system if you don’t activate it within 30 days of installation. But with a bit of tweaking you can increase that time limit to 120 days, even better Srikanth has a cool trick that increases the limit to one year. Follow the instructions below and learn how to do it.

windows 7 tweaks
windows 7 tweaks

# Extend the limit to 120 days

Click on Start Menu->All Programs-> Accessories and then right click on Command Prompt and set it to “Run as Administrator.”

Type-in the command line : slmgr –rearm and you’ll be prompted to restart the PC.

Once you restart the PC the trial period limit will reset to 30 days and you can do this up to 3 times thereby giving you 120 days of unrestricted Windows 7.

# Extend the limit to 360 days

Go to Start->Run and type-in regedit to open the registry editor, and then navigate to the location : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionSoftwareProtectionPlatform.

Now, look for the SkipRearm in the right hand pane and change the value to 1.

After performing this tweak you can use the slmgr-rearm command in Command prompt 8 times more.

That means you can use your Windows 7 for 360 more days.

Via: Go Hacking