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No - I do not work for Microsoft, or any of its contractors. Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | Their response is ONLY valid itself at the time of the request, as the Product Keys database is continually updated. They will give a yes/no answer, and may give a reason, if the Key is not valid. If you want to check that a given Key is valid (which is NOT 'validation'!) you can phone an Activation Center and ask that they check the Key against their database. It is not possible to 'validate' a Key without first activating it. Validation does a number of other things, such as check the validity of a number of system files, and compare them with the hardware expected, and the various hashes involved - it will only pass if everything looks kosher. The /IPK command carries out a number of checks on the Key entered - mostly to check that it could possibly be a valid one (are all characters allowed, is the checksum correct, etc), it then will attempt activation, assuming those tests pass. (preferably using Internet Explorer at default settings) Validation is carried out over the internet - you can do it manually by visiting SLMGR is used for activation purposes, not for validation. Guys can anyone help me out in this regards ? Is there any documentation available on what things Slmgr /ipk will do, and can it solve my purpose. Is there anyway in Slmgr to just validate a product key, or any other approach through which i can validate the product key. I have checked options in WMI API, but they also provide a method of Avtivate(), which will activate my windows.

Validate the product key and not to activate windows. I repeat, i just want to validate the key and don't want to activate it, my sole purpose is to just Bests, If the Answer is helpful, please click 'Accept Answer' and upvote it. I cannot find any concrete explanation except one on technet : īut above are just options related to the Slmgr i just want to validate a key whether it is genuine. I noticed the slmgr command result on that machine show same with Microsoft official document description as below: Please go to Settings\Update&Security\Activation and create a capture, then upload it here.
SLMGR IS NOT RECOGNIZED WINDOWS
If i use Slmgr /ipk XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX, will thisĪctivate the windows or just validate it.
SLMGR IS NOT RECOGNIZED WINDOWS 7
My query is that if i give a genuine product key to above command, will my windows 7 gets activated or it will just validate the key and i will have to activate the windows on my own. Well i have given a invalid key so it threw me error "Product key Invalid", as expected no issues in that ! I used following command(on the command prompt), and supplied the product key:-Ĭ:\windows\system32>Slmgr /ipk XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX I want to just validate whether a product Key supplied is valid or not. I have checked across and found Slmgr is perhaps one of the approach to do that. I'm developing dot net framework application where i am working on things related to Activation and installation based on Windows WDS.
