Windows 7 Retail Activation Backup and Restore Tool

Sylver123

Sylver123

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Hello!

I thought I would post this neat and useful little tool in this forum as I don`t think it would be illegal to use this tool as long as your using it on your own genuine windows 7 to make a backup of your activation.

Please delete this thread if it's against the forum rules.

Token restore RETAIL/MAK tool by Paymyrent

Its to backup retail/MAK keys without going online to get activated if you have to reinstall Windows Seven

this is a very nice tool to backup your activation.
it will backup the activation files- tokens.dat and pkeyconfig.xrm-ms and your key, don't change key.txt becasue it's used to restore the activation.
you can also use the RETAIL version on OEMSLP activation, but it's manily used for retail/technet keys that activate online,
after you have activated online with your key then click on "Backup", choose a folder to save the files, then the tool will bakup the activation files and key into that folder..
then if you reformat your drive, you can use the "Restore" button to restore the activation (without the need to activate online), choose the folder where the tokens.dat & pkeyconfig.xrm-ms & key.txt are in.
the MAK version is used for the VOLUME activation (on the Enterprise and Professional editions), if you used a MAK or KMS key, you can save thand backup the activation.
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RETAIL Version:
Code: 
http://rapidshare.com/files/296934140/Token.Restore.RETAIL.by.Paymyrent.rar

MAK Version:
Code: 
http://rapidshare.com/files/296934213/Token.Restore.MAK.by.Paymyrent.rar
 
Must admit I don't see the point of this, anyone care to elaborate on why I'd need to backup and activation of something I can activate easily online anyway?
 
Kami said:
Must admit I don't see the point of this, anyone care to elaborate on why I'd need to backup and activation of something I can activate easily online anyway?
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Exactly this reason, not everyone has constant net access... I mean for the most part I doubt anyone would benifit from it, however if you backpack with your laptop and it corrupts, the lack of net access is a real ***** when you need to reactivate.

Hence why I use Ubuntu on my netbook ;)
 
So you can't activate over the phone anymore?

Still sounds like it's mainly for folk on dodgy versions or who have one key used on several PCs :-)
 
Kami said:
Must admit I don't see the point of this, anyone care to elaborate on why I'd need to backup and activation of something I can activate easily online anyway?
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I`m sure you can only activate online with your own retail key a limited amount of times and if you do a lot of testing and therefore need to reformat your drive and reinstall windows 7 a number of times then this tool may come in handy, and will prevent you from wasting your activation times or if your installing on a computer and don't have internet access to activate it.
 
You can, however, call up Microsoft and say that you've re-installed over and over due to testing/virii/whatever and they'll activate anyway, I have a friend who did this a few years back. I guess the same would still apply.
 
Sylver123 said:
I`m sure you can only activate online with your own retail key a limited amount of times and if you do a lot of testing and therefore need to reformat your drive and reinstall windows 7 a number of times then this tool may come in handy, and will prevent you from wasting your activation times or if your installing on a computer and don't have internet access to activate it.
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Unless you've got an image (atronis/ghost) of your PC or have used the backup builtin to windows on Pro +
 
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