The Highlander Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Extending The Windows Vista Grace Period to 120 Days Every Vista DVD includes the ability to install any edition of Vista without a product key. When you install without a product key, you get an automatic 30 day evaluation period.* This probably isn't news to anyone. What may be news to you, however, is that you can easily extend the 30-day Windows Vista grace period to 120 days. No hacks required. This is an official, supported operation directly from Microsoft. To extend the grace period another 30 days, simply start a command prompt as Administrator, and issue this command: slmgr -rearm Reboot for the change to take effect, and voila, you have 30 more days. You can only extend three times, so the total grace period for a Vista evaluation is 120 days. more info here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000778.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerman Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Interesting info. I have 7 days left on my test system waiting for MS to give me a new test key and I may try it out. Have you Neil? You can't trust everything you read now can you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted February 1, 2007 Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 Hmmm - I still agree with the Roman poet Vergil "Timeo Danae et dona ferentes" "G®eeks giving gifts scare me" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Highlander Posted February 1, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2007 yup works Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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