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@SIW2 As mentioned above I've got two instances of W7: a "prod" which is my live machine and a "test" which is a VM. Both have their own Windows key. The test VM's guest "disk" was populated via a clone of prod. After booting the VM guest the key was changed from prod to test. The test VM guest environment is currently activated.
I made the mistake of doing a Windows update that seems to have negatively impacted VM performance & would like to get rid of the update by loading a fresh prod clone. (No, I don't have a Windows restore as I've relied on Reflect so the prod clone did not have Recovery turned on). My intent is to retain the VM "hardware identifiers"-OS license key relationship whilst eliminating the ill-begotten update.
I've followed your tutorial on backing up activation state using DISM++. The instructions assume restoring the the activation state following a fresh install. In my case I'll be cloning from my "prod" environment which has its own key and will need to change the key in addition to returning the activated status.
Will the DISM++ restore activation status work for my scenario?
Thanx for your help.