What WILL happen on 2nd of July, 2009?

What WILL happen on 2nd of July, 2009? Windows 7 expiration date
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#1 Lord Devrexster

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Post icon Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:17 PM

Question : What happens when Windows7 expires ??

Answer : Practically nothing really. Here is what I found out by changing my bios dates to December 2009.

When windows starts, after the welcome screen, two dialog boxes come up (screenshots below) and u just have to click on "Ask me Later" in the first dialog and "OK" button in the next.

And after that everything, I mean EVERYTHING (including Aero), works just fine EXCEPT one small thing. U have to manually set the wallpaper everytime ur pc starts or u logoff and login.

So, be cool nothing bads gonna happen. I have checked everything.

#2 Culprit

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:23 PM

the date in your title said 2/7/09 and your post said december 2009 which month is it

#3 PUGALENTHI

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:25 PM

Thanks for the trial....

#4 Syzygy

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Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:26 PM

Culprit, on Jan 14 2009, 10:23 PM, said:

the date in your title said 2/7/09 and your post said december 2009 which month is it

It expires on July the 2nd, but he chose to set it to December as long as it went over the expiration period

#5 Lord Devrexster

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Post icon Posted 14 January 2009 - 12:32 PM

Culprit, on Jan 14 2009, 05:53 PM, said:

the date in your title said 2/7/09 and your post said december 2009 which month is it

I changed my bios date to December to make sure its quite far enough after the expiration date which is 2/7/2009 becoz till 1/7/2009 win7 will stay activated. As Syzgy said above.....

#6 ritesh

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Posted 15 January 2009 - 11:55 AM

Similar thing has also happened to me.. I had build 6801 for almost 2 months without any trick.. After 1st month it always asked the same thing and I clicked it later... I havent faced any problem on 6801 for almost 2 months..