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Vista Hack Served Directly by Microsoft. A hack? Yes. But is it illegal? No. With a combination of the slmgr.vbs rearm command and resetting the SkipRearm ...

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Vista Hack Served Directly by MicrosoftPage 117 March 2007By: Marius Oiaga Technology News EditorVista Hack Served Directly by MicrosoftA hack? Yes. But is it illegal? No.With a combination of the slmgr.vbs rearm command and resetting the SkipRearm Registry Key userscould prolong the initial grace period of Windows Vista for up to a year or even indefinitely. This is by nomeans a crack and the word is still out on if this workaround is legal or not but Microsoft has qualified theSkipRearm loophole as a hack without commenting on the legality of the Windows Vista activation bypass. Recently it has been reported that an activation hack for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system hasbeen identified David Lazar the director of the company's Genuine Windows program told ComputerWorld.Although these reports are purely speculative at the moment we are actively monitoring attempts to stealMicrosoft intellectual property.This is a very big deal because if you take into consideration Lazar's words then this means that theWindows Vista SkipRearm activation workaround is a hack served directly by Microsoft. The fact of thematter is that the Redmond Company has documented the SkipRearm technique on the Microsoft WindowsVista TechCenter. So why is Microsoft sabotaging its own products? The answer is that it isnt. In fact Microsoft has introducedSkipRearm as a way to mitigate the restrictions imposed by Volume Licensing 2.0 in corporate environment.SkipRearm is intimately connected with the Sysprep Process. There is no limit to the number of timesSysprep can run on a computer. However the clock for Windows Product Activation begins its countdown thefirst time Windows starts. You can use the sysprep /generalize command to reset Windows ProductActivation a maximum of three times. After the third time you run the sysprep /generalize command the clockcan no longer be reset revealed Microsoft.Every time a user will run the sysprep /generalize command it will reset the activation cl ...

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