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Windows Activation is a process that helps you to activate Windows and verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and that it has not been used on more computers than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow.
Windows has different license states like:
Doesn’t matter if you are a pirate or not when using key for Windows 7. The program that helps to bypass the official activation Windows 7 appeared almost immediately after the official release of this OS in 2009. The pirates have not made the big work to break the original protection and release the activator.
- Licensed: You see this status after successful activation.
- Initial Grace Period: This is the state after you have installed Windows, but have not activated it. You will be reminded to activate, or Windows will attempt to activate it online automatically.
- Additional Grace Period: If major hardware changes are made to your computer, Windows may prompt you to reactivate Windows.
- Notification Period: Once the grace period expires, you will see a message that Activation is required.
- Non-Genuine Grace Period: You may see this after Windows Genuine Advantage has determined that your Windows copy is not genuine.
- Unlicensed: This appears for unlicensed copies.
The Automatic Activation feature has been included by Microsoft in the Windows operating systems to make it easier for the user to get his copy of Windows activated conveniently. But for some reason, if you wish, you can disable the feature, by editing the Windows Registry. It may especially help if Windows is activated but it still asks you to activate your Windows copy.
Disable Windows Activation popup
This article will tell you how to disable the Auto-activation feature in Windows 10/8/7/Vista. If you do not wish to have the auto-activation wizard bother you, you may choose to disable automatic activation. To do so in Windows 7,Windows 8 and Windows 10 open regedit and navigate to the following key:
In the right pane of the registry editor, you will find REG_DWORD value ‘Manual’. Right-click on it and select Modify. In the Value Data window which appears, change the DWORD value to 1.
The default is 0 which means auto-activation is enabled. Changing the value to 1 will disable auto-activation.
Close the Registry Editor and restart your system.
You will find that the Auto-activation feature has now been disabled completely.
In Windows Vista, however, the relevant key is:
Change the value of Manual to 1 to disable auto-activation in Windows Vista.
Remember to create a system restore point first!
If you are having problems activating Windows, you may want to read this post on Troubleshooting Windows Activation States. Check this post if you need to change Product Key in Windows. See this post, if you see This copy of Windows is not genuine message on the bottom right side of your black Windows desktop.
Windows 7 Product Activation Key
Note: Please read the comments. It is working for some, while not working for others. Based on comments, you may want to change the value of NotificationDisabled to 1 and see if that helps.
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Reinstalling Windows 7 operating system is fairly a simple job. You prepare a bootable media, boot using the bootable media, select language and keyboard, accept license agreement, enter the product key, and select a partition to begin installing Windows.
The problem with this traditional procedure is that you need to enter the product key. This becomes a bit more complicated if you have lost your Windows 7 DVD box on which license key is printed or if you have deleted the mail containing your product key for Windows 7.
While there are plenty of applications out there to recover Windows 7 product key, including a free tool to recover Windows 7 product without booting into Windows 7, wouldn’t it be good if it was possible to legally re-install Windows 7 without entering the product key?
The beauty of Windows 7 and one of the hidden features of Windows 7 is that this version of Windows can be re-installed on the same PC without having to enter the product key, legally. In other words, if your Windows 7 PC is working and bootable, you can re-install Windows 7 without a product key without the help of third-party tools provided that you have a Windows 7 installation DVD.
Note that you must use Windows 7 installation DVD as a bootable media as a bootable Windows 7 USB doesn’t help in this method.
Things you need to know before beginning to reinstall Windows 7 using this method
# This guide is helpful for those who have a Windows 7 DVD but not the product key.
# Your Windows 7 PC must be bootable and your PC must have an optical drive (DVD drive).
# Your PC must have at least 16 GB (for 32-bit) and 20 GB (for 64-bit) of free space on your Windows 7 drive (the drive where Windows 7 is currently installed). If there is no sufficient space, you need to free up some space by disabling hibernation, uninstalling programs, emptying Recycle Bin, or running disk clean up utility.
# After performing reinstallation, you’ll need to manually install all applications all over again, meaning you will lose all installed applications during the reinstallation.
Re-installing Windows 7 without the license key
Step 1: Turn on your PC and boot into Windows 7. Make sure you have above mentioned free space before continuing further.
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Step 2: Navigate to Start menu, click on Control Panel to open the same, change the View to Small icons, and then click on Recovery to open Recovery window.
Step 3: Here, under System Restore section, click on the option labelled Advanced recovery methods.
Step 4: In this window, you’ll see two options:
# Use a system image you created earlier to recover your computer
# Reinstall Windows (requires Windows installation disc)
While the first option lets you restore a system image, the second option lets you reinstall Windows OS without having to enter the product key. Simply select the second option titled Reinstall Windows and then press Enter key.
Step 5: Click on the Yes button when you see a dialog asking “Do you have a Windows installation disc?”
Step 6: The following screen warns you to back up your important data before reinstalling Windows. Even we recommend you backup all important data but since we’re not going to delete existing files and folders located in Windows 7 drive, you don’t necessarily need to backup data.
Simply click Skip button to continue.
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For those who’re curious, in this method, Windows installer simply moves all files and folders located currently in the Windows drive to a folder named Windows.old on the same drive. And once reinstallation is done, it even allows you recover those files and folders but not applications from the Windows.old folder.
Step 7: Finally, insert your Windows 7 DVD into the drive before clicking the Restart button.
NOTE: You may need to make necessary changes to the BIOS/UEFI to allow booting from DVD.
Step 8: After booting from Windows 7 DVD, you’ll see System Recovery Options dialog where you need to select a keyboard input method. Select a input method and then click Next button to continue.
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Step 9: When you see a dialog with “Are you sure you want to reinstall Windows?” message, simply click on the Yes button. Next, you will see “Do you have a Windows installation disc” message, for which, you need to click the Yes button, since you already have inserted the right disc.
Step 10: That’s it! Windows setup will start and begin reinstalling Windows. Once installation is done, you’ll see options to create user account, select time zone, and update settings. You won’t be asked to enter the product key.
Finally, after completing the reinstallation, you can navigate to Windows 7 installed drive, and then open up Windows.old folder to move all important data from the old installation to the new one.
And if you did perform a backup, you can click on Restore my files button when you see the Recovery dialog on your desktop.
Step 11: Now that Windows reinstallation is done and you have all your data, it’s time to activate Windows. Simply open System Properties using Windows + Pause/Break key or right-clicking on Computer icon and then clicking Properties, scroll down, click Activate Windows to activate your Windows 7. In other words, you don’t need to enter the product key. Yes, you don’t need to type the product key!
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That’s all. Good luck!