Windows license management tool: slmgr.vbs

Windows7RTM has been released for a while, and Windows7GA will be officially launched on October 22, followed by large-scale installation and deployment.

whether business or personal, do not want their legitimate rights have been infringed. Especially after deploying Windows 7 in large quantities in enterprises, 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. Then the individual user or business ITPro how to effectively put an end to such problems it?!

remember Windows license management tool -slmgr.vbs it? Using this tool can help users prevent product key leakage. Run CMD 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 parameter description of the next page. . As shown below:

on the second page, we can see "/cpky" this parameter, as the description, the parameter may be used to clear the product key from the registry. 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. Tips

the end of the text, the implementation of "slmgr /cpky" command must be an administrator, otherwise it will prompt the following error.