How to extend trial period of Windows 7

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It has been quite a time of Windows 7 launching date. But many of us still use Windows XP. However Windows 7 is more secure and beautiful than XP or Vista. When you install windows 7, you get 30 days trial period. After that your license will be deactivated and you can’t use it further. However you can extend the trial period to 4 months legally. To do this follow the following steps below. On the 30^th day of trial period(last day of trial period) it shows an message “you have to activate windows today).

1. GO to Start—Accessories—Command prompt. Run it with administrative privileges by right clicking on it and selecting Run as Administrator.
2. On the command prompt type “slmgr –rearm”. (Type ‘slmgr’, give a space and again type ‘-rearm’). [See Fig 2]
3. An message will be displayed showing to Restart the Computer.





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4. After the Restart you will see the trial period has been extended further 30 days. [See Fig 3]

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You can repeat this process for maximum 3 times. That means 90 days(3*30 days). Then the total period is 120 days(30+90 days) means 4 months (120/30). However be careful not to execute the command before the last day of the trial period (before 30^th day). This means you have to execute the process on the last day of trial period. If you enter it earlier, you get less time. {For ex: You have 15 days left and you have executed the command, then 30 days will be replaced with the remaining 15 days. Thus making 30 days not 45 days. So this makes no sense}. So by entering the command on the last day of trial period you can get exactly 120 days.

If you face any problem regarding this then leave a comment and I shall do my best to solve it.

Thanks for reading.. 

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