Windows 7 licens key is “not genuine” and activation failes after installing KB971033.

Posted in : Microsoft Av Linus Lysell Översätt med Google ⟶

5 years ago

INTRODUCTION
After installing KB971033 update some clients has issue with the KMS licens key is not genuine.  It is a known issue for Microsoft. You find more information here.  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4480970/windows-7-update-kb4480970


SOLUTION
The solution from Microsoft to be able to activate Windows again is to uninstall the patch, rebuild the Activation related files and then activate Windows.

1. Start with uninstall the patch from Control Panel > Windows Update > View update history > Installed Updates, right-click Update (KB971033), and select Uninstall.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Now when the patch is no longer installed, we should rebuild the activation related files and activate Windows. Start CMD as administrator and run following commands:

net stop sppuinotify
sc config sppuinotify start= disabled
net stop sppsvc
del %windir%\system32\7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-0.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 /ah
del %windir%\system32\7B296FB0-376B-497e-B012-9C450E1B7327-5P-1.C7483456-A289-439d-8115-601632D005A0 /ah
del %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat
del %windir%\ServiceProfiles\NetworkService\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\SoftwareProtectionPlatform\cache\cache.dat
net start sppsvc
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ipk <edition-specific KMS client key>
cscript c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato
sc config sppuinotify start= demand
 
You can find the KMS-keys in the following link. https://docs.microsoft.com/sv-se/windows-server/get-started/kmsclientkeys
 

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