Saturday, April 10, 2010

Windows 7 Activation Error

If you get the error 0x8007232B when you try to activate Windows 7, then you need to run these commands:
slmgr.vbs -ipk [your product key]

slmgr.vbs -ato
That is it! Run cmd as admin!

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Lagt inn av Nicolai Rygh kl. 23:47

53 kommentarer:

  2. AWESOME!, works perfectly. :) ty much!
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  3. Awesome, not bad for a norwegian :) anyway happy nationalday
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  6. Wow! It works fine!! Thanks so much!! Regards from Brazil!
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  7. Thank you for the answer!
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  8. Thank you from Los Angeles.
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  9. Thanck you a lot from Easten Europe
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  10. it works fine. thanks
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  11. Thanks very much - from Ottawa, Canada.
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  12. I suddenly get this error on Office 2010 Professional Plus. I had the beta installed, but installed RTM from Technet when it was available.
    But suddenly, it will not activate, probably because some piece of the beta is still on my system.
    Any ideas?
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  13. This worked like a charm. Thank you very much for sharing
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  14. I really didnt think that would work, but it sure did! thanks!
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  15. not working
    it is repeating the same error again and again .
    please help
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  16. Thanks from Vancouver BC. :)
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  17. I tried this, but it still gives me the 0x8007232B error. I guess i'll just re-format and start over lol
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  18. Works Perfectly!!
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  19. To you guys who have had problems with this solution - remember to run CMD as admin; that is the normal mistake when it doesn't work.
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  20. Works great.
    Remember to enter the key using dashes
    slmgr.vbs -ipk abcde-fghij-klmno-pqrst
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  21. Exellent did work
    to run cmd as administrator dor not clikc on Enter but on shift+cntrl+enter
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  22. Works for Windows server 2008 R2 also.
    Thanks very much.
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  23. Cheers worked without a problem
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  25. Doesn't work for me. When I enter the -ipk command it says that the key is installed successfully, and when I enter the -ato command, I get the error 0x8007232B again and the message that the DNS does not exist. When I go to my PC properties, nothing has changed, I still get the "You must activate Windows today". What now ?
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  26. @Anonymous - did you run it as admin?
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  27. Very nice solution! Thanks.
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  28. I used Enterprise version. I can not use this solution to resovle it.
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  29. Should work with the enterprise edt too... Sure you have a valid Serial?
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  30. Win7 Enterprise Edition. At least one instruction that worked! Many thanks! No explanation anywhere why error 0x8007232B is displayed, that in the meantime no update fixes this and all other proposals didn't work since on my installation there is no menu item to key in or change the activation-key - only the online-activation is offered - which fails with the mentioned error 0x8007232B.
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  31. Thanks a lot! Don't forget to use - in your product key, it didn't work without them. I am on Windows 7 Enterprise x64
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  32. Piekne dzieki. (Thanks a lot!)
    Pozdrowienia z Polski. (Greetings from Poland)
    Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku! (Happy New Year)
    M
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  33. It worked the SECOND time around.
    I guess I mistyped the serial number the first time and got a "DNS does not exist" error.

    Thanks a lot for this tip - I just wonder why MS does not provide essential information like this.
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  34. it tell me that DNS IS NOT EXSIT wtf!?!?
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  35. Thank you, worked perfectly :)
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  36. Worked great on Win 7 Enterprise. Remember to run the command prompt as an admin. Thanks from the East coast, USA.
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  37. It worked for me. Thanks!
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  38. It worked for me with windows enterprise edition. Thank you very much.
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  39. This is not working for me. When I copy it into the command line as administrator, it says "unrecognized option: -ipk ...." and then gives me a list of commands I can use, one of which is /ipk, which I can't get to work either. Please help.
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  40. aun no me sirve me dice error pa opcion ipk necesita clave del producto que ago ayuda ayuda porfavor
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  41. Worked perfectly! Thanks!
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  42. Spot on - worked perfect - just what I needed.
    Thanks!
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  44. Worked perfectly. Thanks for your tip! From USA.
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  45. Works. But will i have to reactivate by doing this every 180 days? If i am not wrong; when there is KMS involved they say one have to re-activate this every 180 days.

    Does this manual procedure override this 180 re-activate intervall?

    From Vestlandet
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  47. Clarification for any noobs out there like myself. You need to run the cmd prompt as the administrator not the script. So when you click on start and type cmd hold shift-ctrl enter and it runs the prompt as the administrator. Scripts run perfectly after that! Thanks for the solution!!
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  48. Excellent. It work for me too. Thank you very much!
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  49. The same error is coming again. When I typed the second command the same error appeared. 0x8007232B - DNS name does not exist.
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  50. it saves me lot of headaches compared to what MS suggest
    Thanks
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  52. If you are running command prompt as Admin (which you can also do by right-clicking the shortcut and "run as Administrator") and you are still getting the same error the you need to make sure the key is valid. Use either the key off the top of your computer or the MAK provided by your organization. If you try to pull off the key already in the system, you will get the same error because Windows 7 uses a default KMS client key when you don't input any key during setup. In addition, if your network admin gave you a KMS but isn't running a KMS server on the network, you will still have problems. Get the MAK key.
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  53. awesome. this worked for me like a charm as well- had an academic license of windows 7 that kept on barking at me with the same error code. much thanks!
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