{"id":2903,"date":"2007-01-29T20:55:48","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T20:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2007\/01\/29\/extending-the-windows-vista-grace-period-to-120-days\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T20:55:48","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T20:55:48","slug":"extending-the-windows-vista-grace-period-to-120-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/extending-the-windows-vista-grace-period-to-120-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending the Windows Vista grace period to 120 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/\">Jeff Atwood<\/a> has written a post on how to extend the Vista grace period to 120 days.&nbsp; It turns out that you can extend it three times for 30 days each, giving you up to 120 days when you count the original 30-day grace period.&nbsp; It seems like a great way to try out Vista Ultimate to see if it&#8217;s worth the extra money.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000778.html\">Extending The Windows Vista Grace Period to 120 Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re on the fence about the impending release of Windows Vista, I recommend trying before you buy. Every Vista DVD includes <b>the ability to install any edition of Vista without a product key.<\/b> When you install without a product key, you get an automatic 30 day evaluation period.* This probably isn&#8217;t news to anyone.  <\/p>\n<p>What may be news to you, however, is that <b>you can easily extend the 30-day Windows Vista grace period to 120 days.<\/b> No hacks required. This is an official, supported operation directly from Microsoft.  <\/p>\n<p>To extend the grace period another 30 days, simply start a command prompt as Administrator, and issue this command: <\/p>\n<pre>slmgr -rearm\n<\/pre>\n<p>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. You do, however, need to be careful that you&#8217;ve installed the correct edition of Vista. At the end of that 120 day grace period, you&#8217;ll have to <b>pony up a license fee for the edition of Vista you&#8217;ve installed<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.codinghorror.com\/blog\/archives\/000778.html\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/windows+vista\" rel=\"tag\">windows vista<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/slmgr\" rel=\"tag\">slmgr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Atwood has written a post on how to extend the Vista grace period to 120 days.&nbsp; It turns out that you can extend it three times for 30 days each, giving you up to 120 days when you count the original 30-day grace period.&nbsp; It seems like a great way to try out Vista [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-random"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Jeff Atwood has written a post on how to extend the Vista grace period to 120 days.&nbsp; It turns out that you can extend it three times for 30 days each, giving you up to 120 days when you count the original 30-day grace period.&nbsp; It seems like a great way to try out Vista [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}