At last I bought Windows 7 ultimate for $320 ($2,499), from history here I bought Vista nearly 3 years ago. The rearm trick didn’t work and I have no other alternatives of OS for work. My MacBook Pro just can’t connect to network resources running obsolete versions of windows server here.
To do that first of all I need elevated privilege as administrator, do that from below
then I ran this slmgr - rearm, I then got a successful prompt and rebooted it.
Windows is still shutting itself down every 2 hours?
How much longer I can use my Evaluation copy? Type “slmgr.vbs -dlv” in cmd.exe you’ll find out below.
You may get a different expiry date if you run ‘winver’ in command line since you are allowed to extend the evaluation period a few times, that’s called ‘rearm count’ or Re-Arm a grace period of 30 days each count.
Other tricks I may need to extend the life of my RC copy are here and there.
I have decided on Fusion 3 and purchased a boxset from a retail store. I have been playing around with it for a while now, am still learning. Obviously with VM I could do all sort of silly things such as
I have also experienced serious problem with the working copy of Windows 7 32 bit which I need during the day due the my dumb idea of storing the pst files of outlook on a desktop folder of OS X which is a bad idea. That crashed the OS I need for work which I had to reinstall again.
A feature that I overlooked is the AutoProtect which enables me to roll back to a earlier healthy version of the OS, see below
Apparently this doesn’t consume too much of disk space. I’m now so efficient in reinstalling OS, connecting to the office network, installing printer drivers, mapping network drives …. etc but I don’t really want to do this over and over again.
(Edited: this roll back feature turns out to be a bad idea, it took more than 30 minutes on my MBP and while it’s doing that the guest OS is basically not functional and I can’t even run a broswer on OS X)
