Windows Authorization Management Tool: slmgr.vbs

Windows 7 RTM has been released for a while, and Windows 7 GA will be officially launched on October 22, followed by large-scale installation and deployment.

No matter whether it is a business or an individual, you do not want your copyright rights to be infringed. 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 corporate ITPro effectively prevent such problems from happening?

Remember the Windows Authorization Management Tool — slmgr.vbs? Use this tool to help users prevent product key leaks. 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 the parameter "/cpky", as described in the description, you can use this parameter 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.

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