"Let's Start" -- will you activate Windows 8 Enterprise Edition?

In the previous blog (http://www.bkjia.com/ OS /201208/150691.html), we talked about the Windows 8 version and the process of installing the Enterprise Edition, after restarting the computer can start the Windows 8 journey, however, you will find that many system attributes cannot be changed, as shown in figure 1. Why? The word "Activate "!

 

Figure 1: inactive

Next we will complete the activation of Windows 8 so that it will be totally at our mercy. First, like the previous version of Windows, right-click the "my computer" icon on the desktop and select the last "attribute" from the drop-down menu ", let's take a look at the activation status of Windows.

Figure 2: View activation status

Click the link at the Red Arrow to bring up the page shown in figure 3, and then click "Activate" to Activate windows. The result is an error code, as shown in figure 4.

Figure 3: Activate windows

Figure 4: activation failed

It seems that this cannot be done, so how can we use the activation code in our hands to replace the activation code in the system to activate windows? In fact, Windows provides us with a management tool to do this-slmgr. vbs, known as "software license management tools ". This tool is a command line tool that can be executed only by cmd or Windows Powershell command interpreter. In Windows 8, it is easy to retrieve the two tools. Right-click the blank area of the metro Start Menu, and click "All apps" on the pop-up bottom border to bring up All the application icons, scroll the mouse to find cmd or Windows Powershell. If you often use these two tools, you can also fix them in the common start interface. Find the icon and do not click it directly. It is a program started with the account you are currently logged on to the system, and the operation cannot be completed. Right-click the icon and click "Run as administrator" in the pop-up bottom pane. This is started as an administrator. You can perform the following operations with global management permissions, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Start Windows Powershell as an administrator

Next, enter "slmgr" in the Powershell dialog box and press Enter. Because the command is incomplete, a help box for this command is displayed, and some common Parameter options of this command are provided. To replace the activation code, we need to use the parameter "/ipk", which means to install the product serial number. Sat.

Figure 6: slmgr help

Refer to the help text, we typed "slmgr/ipk xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in the command line, "x" for your activation code, and then press enter, about a few seconds, when you see the prompt information shown in Figure 7, the activation is successful.

 

 

Figure 7: Successful activation information

Verify the activation status! Start your exploration on Windows 8!

Figure 8: Activated