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  Posted: Jul 03

Note: This is for educational purposes only, because people experienced licensing problems on Vista before.

Activating Windows 7 can cause a lot of trouble. First of all, you should create a restore point before you do anything. An excellent tutorial can be found at:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/


Important Sidenotes:

  • You can’t turn on system protection for your HDD in safe mode!!!
  • Slmgr.vbs cannot be started in safemode

Files that should be in place if you want to activate Windows 7:

Default: C:/Windows/System32/
slwga.dll
slmgr.vbs
slui.exe (rename .bak to slui.exe)
slui.exe.mui (in subfolder “en-US”)

Is your Windows 7 copy licensed?

Enter “winver” into search field and this should show up:

Display Your Windows 7 License - command winver

Display Your Windows 7 License - command "winver"

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