SCG Trick Zone

Introduction Everybody forgets at one time or another. Especially when you are knocking out windows upgrades a dozen at a time. A week or two after you install windows 7, the user submits a help desk ticket telling you their windows is not "Genuine". Not to worry, here is what you can do to correct the situation. 1 Open regedit in administrator mode In the start menu, go to accessories, and then right click on the command prompt. select "Run as Administrator" accept the user access control warning and then type regedit into the command line and press the enter key. 2 Reset the mediabootinstall key Navigate to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/setup/OOBE/mediabootinstall and Change it's value to 0 (zero) 3 Reset the activation grace period In the command prompt that you still have open, type "slmgr -rearm" and press the enter key. (you can reset the activation period up to 4 t...