Techo Rama

Microsoft has taken some of the best security measures to keep its new operating system Windows Vista away from piracy. But once again some hackers have come up with a way to keep this ‘Highly Secure’ operating system of Microsoft in grace period for life time. Originally Windows Vista has a built in mechanism that reduces the OS functionality if you do not activate your copy within 30 days from its installation. But this hack will keep your operating system in grace period for a life time by stopping the timers that count the number of days left for you to activate your OS. All that will not take more than an hour and you will have a fully functional OS after that. Here are the 20 steps for the procedure: 1. Install Windows Vista Ultimate edition (or other edition) without product key. 2. Windows Vista needs to be applied with 2099-ReArm trick, so that the counter of minutes to no activation required period will not return to normal after reboot. Click on Start Orb button. 3. Select ‘All Programs’, then ‘Accessories’. 4. Right click on ‘Command Prompt, then select ‘Run as Administrator (A)’. 5. If User Account Control (UAC) prompt a warning message, click on ‘Continue’. 6. In the command prompt, type date and press Enter. You will see the following: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:Windowssystem32>date Current date: 12/19/2006 Thursday Enter new date: 7. Enter 12/31/2099 (December 31, 2099). 8. Next, type cscript slmgr.vbs -rearm. You will see something like the following: C:Windowssystem32>cscript slmgr.vbs -rearm Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. The command completed successfully. To make the change effectively, please restart the system. 9. Then reset the date of the system to current date again by typing date again. You will see the following: Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6000] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:Windowssystem32>date Current date: 12/31/2099 Thursday Enter new date: 10. Type in current date, i.e. 12/19/2006. 11. Exit from command prompt, but do not restart the computer. 12. Download StopTimer.zip. 13. Extract the downloaded archive file into a folder. It should contains ‘Vista test crack.exe’ and ‘timerstop.sys’. 14. Execute or run the ‘Vista test crack.exe’ by right click on ‘Vista test crack.exe’, and select ‘Run as Administrator (A)’. 15. Press in Test button, and it will pop up a message says 4 timers are stopped. At this time, the counter should be freezed, Check with slmgr.vbs -dlv command, with the minutes left should be the same after a few minutes interval. If it’s the case, continue with the following steps to run the crack every startup. 16. In the Vista test crack window, click on ‘Install’ button. You will be prompted with ‘Service installed’ message if everything is done properly and correctly. The crack will copy the patched stoptimer.sys to system folder and install a new service named ‘timerstop’ to stop kernel-mode timers in spsys.sys system file. 17. Exit from the crack, and restart the computer. 18. The hacking is basically done. Next few steps to to verify that the activation grace period built-in countdown timer is actually stopped and disable the timers from working properly, and make sure that the crack is installed properly. After restart, log on to Windows Vista. Run for a few minutes. 19. Press on Windows + R keys. 20. Type slmgr.vbs -dlv to check the time left to activate Windows Vista. If the time left is 43200 minutes that’s mean the crack is successful. In the last step when you check the time left for activation the OS will display 43200 minutes that is 30 days. But don’t worry as the counter has been stopped and will not count down the time and the OS will always run with 30 days left for product activation. Moreover since the OS will remain in the first 3 days of activation grace period therefore Microsoft will not be able to differentiate between the newly installed system and the patched system…!