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Those brave souls who ignore the "reminders" and work their way around the shutdowns will face one more phase in the expiration process. On June 1, if you are still on the Windows 7 RC, your license will expire and the non-genuine experience will be triggered. This means Windows will boot to a black desktop and users will still have to deal with the constant notifications and bi-hourly shutdowns.
As annoying as all this may sound, especially for those who have been running the test release as their main installation, we can't say Microsoft wasn't clear about the whole expiration process from the get go.
That said, if you need some more time to back up your stuff there is a little-known (and perfectly legal) way to extend your RC license as many as 90 more days -- just open a command prompt window with administrator privileges, enter "slmgr -rearm" (minus the quotes) and reboot. The 'trick' can be used up to three times and each will give you 30 days to go grab a legal copy of Windows 7 and upgrade.
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Ouch... better reformat soon
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i got a free copy of win7 through my university... and upgraded from RC to win7 pro during our winter break.. for are all students make sure to check out deals available... students usually dont have to pay full price
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tengeta said:
Jeez... I manage to keep putting this off, I might actually bother extending it.
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I m going to uses pirated windows 7 frm nxt month no problem for me
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Guest said:
I m going to uses pirated windows 7 frm nxt month no problem for me
Your a bad person.
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I m going to uses pirated windows 7 frm nxt month no problem for me
Bill Gates will come and annoy you personally if you do.
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I'll just use my infinite rearmer software :P,
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BAD GUEST go buy a copy.
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LOL Pirates ftw
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I used the extend command as described, and have just seen a pop up telling me I have 21 hours before my RC expires.
I am wondering if it extends it 30 hours not 30 days?
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it didn't work for me either. Oh well back to vista.
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burty117 said:Guest said:
I m going to uses pirated windows 7 frm nxt month no problem for me
Your a bad person.
Worse than that...you can't even spell correctly
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Ya gotta love Microsoft. They will keep you on your toes. Is today "patch Tuesday?"
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Ya gotta love Microsoft. They will keep you on your toes. Is today "patch Tuesday?"No, I think they ruined everybody's computer last week. Is that right..? Day 16 has to be the 3rd Tuesday in March, not the second.
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I m going to uses pirated windows 7 frm nxt month no problem for meSuper, you should be proud. Worse than that...you can't even spell correctlyI think you're confusing lazy and ignorant with uneducated. Well, on second thought, "guest" is possibly all three.
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