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There are many ways to backup Windows 7 using third-party softwares. In this article, you will be shown how to backup and install only the activation files needed to reactivate Windows 7 when you reinstall your Windows 7 without connecting to the Internet and reactivate it. This way is beneficial because Microsoft lets you activate your Windows only ten times through the Internet. After ten times of activation, you may have to call Microsoft customer service to get the activation key. In the other word, backing up only the activation files takes less hard disk space than backing up the whole Operating System. In my experience, backing up and restoring the whole Operating System may be easier and takes less time to work. However, after restoring the operating System, it may not work well as you expect. This is because there were some errors or files corrupted during the backing up and restoring process. That is the reason why I am writing this article for. | There are many ways to backup Windows 7 using third-party softwares. In this article, you will be shown how to backup and install only the activation files needed to reactivate Windows 7 when you reinstall your Windows 7 without connecting to the Internet and reactivate it. This way is beneficial because Microsoft lets you activate your Windows only ten times through the Internet. After ten times of activation, you may have to call Microsoft customer service to get the activation key. In the other word, backing up only the activation files takes less hard disk space than backing up the whole Operating System. In my experience, backing up and restoring the whole Operating System may be easier and takes less time to work. However, after restoring the operating System, it may not work well as you expect. This is because there were some errors or files corrupted during the backing up and restoring process. That is the reason why I am writing this article for. | ||
<h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> | <h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW</h2> | ||
In this article, I will discuss mainly about how to backup and restore the activation files | In this article, I will discuss mainly about how to backup and restore the activation files in Windows 7 64-Bit Operating System, and it also includes Windows 7 32-Bit as well. | ||
There are three files that contain the activation information in Windows 7 64-Bit. By default, Windows | There are three files that contain the activation information in Windows 7 64-Bit, the '''tokens.dat''' and two '''pkeyconfig.xrm-ms''' files. By default, the tokens.dat file located in ''C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\'' and the other two files, pkeyconfig.xrm-ms, are located in '''C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\''' and '''C:\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\'''. Next section I will show you the commands needed to backup and restore these files. In order to be able to that, you need to have the Administrator right user account. | ||
<h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> | <h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">BACKING UP THE ACTIVATION FILES</h2> | ||
Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab: | Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab: | ||
*A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption. | *A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption. | ||
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<h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;"> | <h2 id="ly-proj" style="margin:3px; background:#C5DDFE; font-size:110%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #316CAB; text-align:left; color:#000; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">RESTORING THE ACTIVATION FILES</h2> | ||
Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab: | Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab: | ||
*A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption. | *A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption. | ||
Revision as of 06:29, 15 October 2010
There are many ways to backup Windows 7 using third-party softwares. In this article, you will be shown how to backup and install only the activation files needed to reactivate Windows 7 when you reinstall your Windows 7 without connecting to the Internet and reactivate it. This way is beneficial because Microsoft lets you activate your Windows only ten times through the Internet. After ten times of activation, you may have to call Microsoft customer service to get the activation key. In the other word, backing up only the activation files takes less hard disk space than backing up the whole Operating System. In my experience, backing up and restoring the whole Operating System may be easier and takes less time to work. However, after restoring the operating System, it may not work well as you expect. This is because there were some errors or files corrupted during the backing up and restoring process. That is the reason why I am writing this article for.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
In this article, I will discuss mainly about how to backup and restore the activation files in Windows 7 64-Bit Operating System, and it also includes Windows 7 32-Bit as well.
There are three files that contain the activation information in Windows 7 64-Bit, the tokens.dat and two pkeyconfig.xrm-ms files. By default, the tokens.dat file located in C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\ and the other two files, pkeyconfig.xrm-ms, are located in C:\Windows\System32\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\ and C:\Windows\SysWOW64\spp\tokens\pkeyconfig\. Next section I will show you the commands needed to backup and restore these files. In order to be able to that, you need to have the Administrator right user account.
BACKING UP THE ACTIVATION FILES
Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab:
- A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption.
- A BackTrack 3 Live CD
- 2 wireless adapters - one of them should be a compatible wireless adapter.
- At least 2 PCs
RESTORING THE ACTIVATION FILES
Here is a list of equipment and hardware Requirement for this lab:
- A wireless router - this could be any wireless router that supported WEP security encryption.
- A BackTrack 3 Live CD
- 2 wireless adapters - one of them should be a compatible wireless adapter.
- At least 2 PCs