The proper way to active the free Windows 7 vm downloaded from https://dev.windows.com

Testing various Internet Explorer versions on different Windows versions can be quite coplicated but Microsoft are helping us a lot by offering a bunch of configured virtual machines with all kinds of IE installed. The downside is – all the VMs come with some expiration period after which you need to re-download again which could be a problem because you have already customized your VM with installed software, changed system settings etc. If you follow the steps below you can use your configured VM for around or more than an year without having to re-download and re-configure a new copy of the VM.

The proper way to active the free Windows 7 vm  downloaded from https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/

1. Start windows

2. Choose “Ask me later” or “Cancel” to the warning about expiration

3. Start command prompt as administrator and run: (type cmd.exe)

4. Type in: “slmgr /rearm”

5. Restart Windows

6. Open “My Computer” properties

7. Activate Windows

8. Restart


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