Comments on: Extend Evaluation Period to 240 days

By: Dale

Dale — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:19:37 +0000

I have the same thing as stick3r8. “This copy of windows is not genuine” is the bottom right of the screen. Only tried that method no cracks or anything. Havent tried windows update though, couldnt care less about it.

By: John Candid

John Candid — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:20:38 +0000

Also, I’ll appreciate to hear if the restart is really necessary?

By: John Candid

John Candid — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:04:51 +0000

Here is a BAT file version of the McFly Method with a single restart:

ECHO OFF
ECHO ===============================================================================
ECHO Windows Server 2008 Activation Bypass
ECHO by John Candid
ECHO.
ECHO Based on the McFly Method
ECHO ===============================================================================
ECHO.
ECHO Stopping and disabling the SL UI Notification Service…
net stop SLUINotify
sc config SLUINotify start= disabled
ECHO Processing SLLUA.exe…
TAKEOWN /f “%windir%\System32\SLLUA.exe”
ECHO y| cacls “%windir%\System32\SLLUA.exe” /G Administrator:F
RENAME “%windir%\System32\SLLUA.exe” SLLUA.ex_
ECHO Processing SLUI.exe…
TAKEOWN /f “%windir%\System32\SLUI.exe”
ECHO y| cacls “%windir%\System32\SLUI.exe” /G Administrator:F
RENAME “%windir%\System32\SLUI.exe” SLUI.ex_
ECHO Processing SLUINotify.dll…
TAKEOWN /f “%windir%\System32\SLUINotify.dll”
ECHO y| cacls “%windir%\System32\SLUINotify.dll” /G Administrator:F
RENAME “%windir%\System32\SLUINotify.dll” SLUINotify.dl_
ECHO Press any key to restart…
PAUSE>nul
SHUTDOWN /r /t 0

By: SHADOW COPY

SHADOW COPY — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:08:04 +0000

Anytime you kill the slui files you will get the not genuine message over your clock and computer properties will say activate now. That just the way it is. The system will run forever with these 2 quirks. If you are smart you would stay away from MS Update. That is how they will catch you. Ever notice that they test your machine with wga each time you update. By the way to delete SLnotify you have to stop the service.

By: someone else

someone else — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:10:55 +0000

I’ve run Server 2008 on a laptop and had no problems. It’s quite realistic.

By: pmp

pmp — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:48:11 +0000

If anyone has malawarebytes anti-malaware you can use the extra tools file assassin to remove the 3 slui files, its a lot quicker then changing the permissions

By: valorisa

valorisa — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:41:11 +0000

@jink

Use the mcfly’s method after the SP2 and it will work nice !

http://www.mcflymethod.com/indexb.asp?txtscreen=1440

valorisa

By: jink

jink — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:20:46 +0000

Ok Gideon. So if I reinstate the McFly files that were deleted\renamed and/or upgrade to SP2 – and the trial time runs out, as long as I don’t tamper with it anymore, the only real issue will be the black desktop background with the illegal copy message in the corner? Or do you mean the “Black Screen Of Death”?

By: Gideon7

Gideon7 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:10:39 +0000

Seen on SP2: If you mess around trying to bypass WPA2 too much it will bust you and switch to the Tamper Alert mode, also known as WPA_UNLICENSED_LOCKOUT. If your computer goes into this mode you are screwed, and you cannot log on without first activating or calling Microsoft.

By: Gideon7

Gideon7 — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:57:51 +0000

How can I make this more clear?

After 240 days WPA2 will *always* go into non-compliance mode. No matter what.

McFly’s method DOES NOT WORK.

What you are seeing is the fact that Microsoft relaxed the penalty for non-compliance as of SP1. Prior to SP1 you were locked out. After SP1 you only get a nag screen. You are still non-compliant, your desktop still shows a black screen, and you still fail WGA checks.

By: pirrax

pirrax — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:10:45 +0000

Unfortunately not. I applied mcfly’s workaround after upgrading to SP2, but no luck. So disable the auto update and don’t install SP2.

By: jink

jink — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:58:01 +0000

Can someone confirm if applying the mcfly method AFTER upgrading to SP2 will work? #79 said it reset the trial but he did not confirm whether he had tryed to apply the method again AFTER.

By: 2k8usr

2k8usr — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:30:09 +0000

downloaded 590MB sp2. mcfly-applied 64 bit trial version took SP2 update o.k. update took a whopping 70 minutes on 2.2GHz core 2 laptop, longest running sp of any so far in my experience. sp2 update brought back the watermark that says that this copy of windows is not genuine as well as activation requirement in 60 days. wonder if 3 additional resets are still available.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:41:08 +0000

I ve found a patch toremove the watermark

http://deepxw.blogspot.com/2008/12/remove-watermark-v03-build-20081210.html

By: rocket

rocket — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:45:02 +0000

I did applied mcfly’s method to a W2K8 Server, all is as advertised.

BUT

I have another vmware W2K8 R2 BETA Server witch so far this method doesn’t say it works with. So as most other w2k8 servers it also the initial 60 days plus 3 reams for a total of 240 days.

I installed this mvware W2K8 R2 BETA around 50 days ago. Today I decided to UPGRADE it to W2K8 R2 RC1 (latest released), and what I found out is that first of all you have to run ADPREP /FORESTPREP and ADPREP /DOMAINPREP from the ADPREP folder (located in in the new DVD for R2 RC1 in the SUPPORT\ADDPREP folder).

ok, after the UPGRADE, you will loose 1 REARM plus the days left on the ream you are in, in my case I lost 10 days from the first rearm and the 2nd rearm.

But after running “slmgr -dlv” I see that the end of trial is JUNE 1, 2010, so I’m not sure how this is going to end up.

If anyone has already done a non-crack on Windows Server 2008 R2 RC1 or Beta Let me know.

By: 2k8usr

2k8usr — Thu, 14 May 2009 07:58:02 +0000

2k8 trial running fine using mcfly’s method. takes updates with no problem. wonder what would happen if 2k8 sp2 is applied

By: lucideer

lucideer — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:40:54 +0000

@ubz (and anyone else wondering)
I’ll make it a forum post.

@Smart Guy
Noone here is attempting to thwart anything. Info in this guide comes straight from Microsoft’s Knowledge Database.

By: Kingstone

Kingstone — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:02:17 +0000

Guys, i have a weird problem, i don’t know if it’s related…
On Thursday is rearmed according to this tutorial for the first time.
All seemed to go well, i did restart several times and windows still worked.
Yesterday, after I did 3 updates from windows update (can’t remember which) and then restarted, the computer didn’t boot anymore not even in safe mode.
It went into black screen immedietly on startup no logo no nothing.
I’m wondering if it’s because the activation or the updates? Anyone seen this behavior?

Arris: Rearming and updating shouldn’t result in an unbootable system. Have you tried to repair the bootloader using the methods described in the following topic at the forum: dual boot with XP

By: Smart Guy

Smart Guy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:54:50 +0000

Just one word for those attempting to thwart licensing b/c the Windoze licensing is overpriced: Linux. No evaluation expiration, no licensing fees (if you use a free distro), and a much more polite user group in general … much less name calling.

Yeah, I know, your games won’t work. Game systems are for games. Laptops are for work.

By: ubz

ubz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:43:37 +0000

can i get a little more info on the symlink process?

1.I create the symlink for C:\Users\Administrator
2.Back up program files
3.recreate symlink? create the same symlink?
4…?