Protect the Windows7 product key from leaking coups

No matter whether it is a business or an individual, you do not want your copyright rights to be violated. Especially after the large-scale deployment of Windows 7 in the enterprise, some employees may maliciously use some tools to extract the product key of the current Windows 7 system, resulting in the loss of enterprise IT assets, and more likely to cause attacks caused by key leakage. So how can individual users or companies effectively prevent such problems from happening?

Maybe everyone knows that a free command to activate the Windows 7 RTM version requires a command, yes, Windows Authorization Management Tool — slmgr.vbs. Use this tool to help users prevent product key leaks. Run the cmd command as an administrator and execute “slmgr.vbs /? ” (Note: the actual operation can omit the extension .vbs), you can get the parameters of slmgr, click the “OK” button to display the next Description of the parameters of the page. The author personally operates, the screenshot is as follows:

On the second page we can see the “/cpky” this parameter, as explained in the description, use this parameter to clear from the registry Product key. This can effectively prevent malicious users from using the serial number viewer or script program that is streamed online to snoop the Windows 7 product key, thus avoiding the leakage of the product key.

At the end of the text, the friendly prompt, execute the "slmgr /cpky" command must be an administrator, otherwise the following error will be prompted.