{"id":1550,"date":"2013-04-04T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T10:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1550"},"modified":"2013-04-04T10:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T10:11:23","slug":"change-product-key-in-windows-server-2012-or-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/?p=1550","title":{"rendered":"Change product key in windows server 2012 or windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Use slmgr<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open an elevated command prompt and type the following commands:<\/li>\n<li>slmgr -upk<br \/>\nThis will remove the key first<\/li>\n<li>slmgr -ipk xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx<br \/>\nThis will add your key. Of course replace the xyzyx-xyzyx with your own real key.<\/li>\n<li>Activate Windows (you will probably have popups already during this process)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2. Use slui.exe<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, and then tap Search. Or, if you are using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, and then click Search.<\/li>\n<li>In the search box, type Slui.exe 0x3.<\/li>\n<li>Tap or click the Slui.exe 0x3 icon.<\/li>\n<li>Type your product key in the Windows Activation window, and then click Activate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. You can also use the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 3.0 to change the product key remotely, or if you want to change the product key on multiple computers.<\/p>\n<p>The last two methods can be\u00a0 found referenced in this KB: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2750773\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2750773<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Use slmgr Open an elevated command prompt and type the following commands: slmgr -upk This will remove the key first slmgr -ipk xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx-xyzyx This will add your key. Of course replace the xyzyx-xyzyx with your own real key. Activate Windows (you will probably have popups already during this process) 2. Use slui.exe Swipe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"close","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,147,83],"tags":[206,158],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-microsoft","category-windows-8","category-windows-server","tag-windows-8","tag-windows-server-2012","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galhano.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}