Product Activated or not ?

[Sonic]

Hi all,

How can I detect if Windows is activated or not ?

With command line or vbscript , file detection ?

It's interesting to install IE7 & WMP11.

Thanks!

[ajua]

thats a good question. have you searched microsoft's KB?

one thing i can think of know is to monitor a windows activation routine and see what changed...

another thing is to monitor Microsoft Genuine Advantage Diagnostic Tool to see what it checks...

hope this helps..

Edited December 21, 2006 by elajua

[Sonic]

MGADiag.exe is nice util, but I havn't find any info about command line options or output log

[Sonic]

MGADiag.exe is nice util, but I havn't find any info about command line options or output log

[darafat]

start/run

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /A

if it is already activated the dialog box will say 'your copy of windows is already activated'

p.s: i don't know if it is what you want, but you can try (i m still a newbie )

[ponghy]

You can do this programatically by using the Win32_WindowsProductActivation WMI class.

You can write a VBS script to do this. More info here.

Here is explained how to implement this.

See the following example:

Option Explicit

Dim obj, activated

For Each obj In GetObject("WinMgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}").InstancesOf("Win32_WindowsProductActivation")
  ' You need the ActivationRequired field of the current instance (e.g., "current computer").
  If obj.ActivationRequired = 0 Then
	activated = True
  Else
	activated = False
  End If
Next
If activated Then
  ' Install IE 7, WMP11...
  Set obj = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
  obj.Run "your_command_line1_here", 0, True
  obj.Run "your_command_line2_here", 0, True
  obj.Run "your_command_line3_here", 0, True
  ' ... etc.
  ' Free resources.
  Set obj = Nothing
End If

Hope this helps.

Ponghy.-

Edited December 29, 2006 by ponghy

[Sonic]

Thanks ponghy, I will use your script.

[ponghy]

Ok, you're welcome. Let me know if it works (it should).