I just turned on my pc and found out that the RC 7100 is no longer activated through microsoft. It says I have to back up my data and install an official windows 7 ultimate. I though that we had until March of 2010 to use the RC?...when did this change or is anyone else having the same issue?
Description of Windows 7 Beta and Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) expiration dates and functionality
In the command prompt type in slmgr /xpr
What does it say?
1. It is an official RC...had it the day it came out.
2. when I type that in the command prompt is says " Windows 7 Ultimate unlicensed"...it was the last time I used it. Come to think of it...the last time I used it was before the release date of windows 7..could they have terminated the licenses for windows 7 RC since it has been released?
Tried the rearm and restart the pc...still says that my key has expired on startup....does this mean i should try a reinstall...since my key is not valid. Still says my copy of windows is not genuine but lets me run it. your date on there is april 24,2009...what about todays date for a reference.
Came up alot of windows to hit ok on....alot of ??? and unactivated and unregristered things came up. Is it important to say that everytime I start windows now that Java runtime crashes for some reason. Could this be causing a core OS issue?
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