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Extending The Windows Vista Grace Period to 120 Days
Posted by Steven Bink January 31, 2007 11:16 PM with 3 comment(s)
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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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UnswoleLilDude said:

This doesn't seem like Microsoft to just give away their product like this.

Are you sure this is legal?
February 1, 2007 11:15 PM
 

mtg said:

At work we wanted to test drive Vista Enterprise. Our key was a KMS key. To get KMS up and running you have to have 25 computers running Vista. Needless to say we didn't have 25 that we wanted to install Vista on. We started installing Vista on old beaters so we could activate our KMS server. In the meantime a couple of us past 30 days. While skimming through the 72 page document of instructions for KMS I came across the "rearm" command. To my surprise it worked! The document did not say exactly how many times we could rearm. We finally got our 25 comptuers going so we could activate.
February 2, 2007 8:24 AM
 

starjax said:

Makes you wonder if this was meant to be in the wild.  I would like to hear from Bink or Microsoft on this one.
February 4, 2007 2:39 AM

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