{"id":1005,"date":"2012-08-18T07:48:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T07:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2012-08-18T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T07:50:19","slug":"how-to-change-product-key-after-installing-windows-7-or-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-change-product-key-after-installing-windows-7-or-vista\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Product Key After Installing Windows 7 or Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you need to change Windows product key so you can activate Windows 7 or Windows Vista properly? Sometimes, users are required to change or re-enter the product keys in Windows 7 or Windows Vista to solve and fix activation problems, or after buying a genuine license for Windows operating system, it’s necessary to reactivate Windows. This article shows you 2 methods to change or re-enter product key that already installed in the system.<\/p>\n

Method 1: Manual<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Right click on My Computer<\/strong> and select Properties<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  2. Wait a second for windows activation details to get populated.\n

    \n\"\"<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. Click on Change Product key<\/strong> link after your Windows activation details are populated.<\/li>\n
  4. Enter new product key and click on next to activate your Windows 7 or Vista.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Method 2: Command Prompt<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Click on start and type command (cmd) with run as administrator option<\/li>\n
    2. Now type following command:
      \n“slmgr.vbs -ipk <insert your product key here>”<\/li>\n
    3. To activate windows after changing the key, run “slmgr.vbs -ato”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      If you misplace or lost your Windows product key, you can recover Windows product keys for your local computer using Product Key Finder<\/a> program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Do you need to change Windows product key so you can activate Windows 7 or Windows Vista properly? Sometimes, users are required to change or re-enter the product keys in Windows 7 or Windows Vista to solve and fix activation problems, or after buying a genuine license for Windows operating system, it’s necessary to reactivate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[421,419,418,420],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-product-key","category-tips-tricks","tag-change-product-key","tag-change-windows-7-product-key","tag-change-windows-product-key","tag-change-windows-vista-product-key"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}