Windows 7 activate tutorial

1. Open the Start Menu.

2. In the Start Menu search box, type Regedit and press Enter.

3. In the registryEditor, go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SoftwareProtectionPlatform . In the right pane, see if SkipRearm is set to 0 (number 0)

5. If it is not set to 0 – Right click on SkipRearm and click on Modify. Type 0 and click on OK. (See screenshot below).If it is set to 0 – Skip this and go to step 6.

6. Open a elevated command prompt (it will be elevated if you are Admin, or if not just run it as Admin)

7. In the elevated command prompt, type slmgr -rearm and press Enter. (See screenshot below)

8. If successful you will get the below screenshot. Click on OK.

You can rearm to a maximum for 3 times that means a total of 120 days. So evaluate it for maximum before you decide to buy Windows

7. The above procedure i got from a Blog