Windows 7 key issue, 0 days left

[naturalphenomen]

i have windows 7 and my key went to 0 days and my key in the mail hasnt came yet, how do i get another 30 days i tried slmgr -rearm

but notepad comes up and nothing like the tutorial

 

[Jpeg9999]

Set your clock back and disable internet sync until the key arrives.

 

[naturalphenomen]

i realy cant the computers for school work

 

[bobkn]

Set your clock back and disable internet sync until the key arrives.

That may be a bad idea. I believe that there are consistency check in Win7 that may cause unfortunate things to happen if you play with the system clock.

Did you run slmgr -rearm from a command window with elevated privileges? It's necessary. (To open a command line window with elevated privileges, go to the system 32 directory in your Windows directory. Run cmd.exe as administrator.)

I'm not sure whether this will work with an expired grace period. One suggestion I've seen is that you can boot into Safe Mode and run it then. Haven't tried it.

Good luck.

 

[kegobeer]

Another way to run an elevated cmd - win key -> type "cmd" -> right click, run as administrator.

 

[Tews]

From a command prompt enter slmgr.vbs -rearm ... Enjoy

 

[naturalphenomen]

From a command prompt enter slmgr.vbs -rearm ... Enjoy

notepad still came up

 

[Tews]

upload a screenshot of the command prompt with the command entered, and the notepad..

 

[naturalphenomen]

I got even better heres what comes up when i put slmgr.vbs -rearm
in

Note its the actual file

 

[Tews]

Try this ... slmgr /rearm post result....

 

[kegobeer]

I'm going to guess that somehow .vbs files are set to open with notepad. Go to the system32 directory and find slmgr.vbs. Right click on it, select open with, and then choose Microsoft Windows Based Script Host.

 

[Tews]

He mistook a hosting script popup for notepad... the command syntax was off ... he should be ok now..

 

[kegobeer]

He mistook a hosting script popup for notepad... the command syntax was off ... he should be ok now..

Ah - that will do it every time.

 

[naturalphenomen]

Something finaly happened, its too large to post though

 

[Tews]

did it rearm??

 

[naturalphenomen]

not sure, when i did the slmgr -rearm a bunch of stuff happened ill check though

 

[naturalphenomen]

it gave me 3 days

 

[Tews]

I hope you used the syntax slmgr /rearm and not slmgr -rearm

 

[Tews]

enter slmgr /dlv and take a screenshot of the result and post it...

 

[naturalphenomen]

how do i screenshot lmao its not letting me with print screen