# Find and Click "Run"

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Type: Regedit
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Click the plus next to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
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Click the plus next to "SOFTWARE"
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Click the plus next to "Microsoft"
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Click the plus next to "Windows NT"
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Click the plus next to "CurrentVersion"
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Click "WPAEvents"
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On the right panel, find "OOBETimer" then double click it.
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Now, Delete all the Values by highlighting it, then delete it
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Then type in this value without the quotation mark "FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 3
3 93 FD"
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Then after that click OK,
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Then on the left panel right click WPAEvents, then click on permissions
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Then click System or SYSTEM, then Deny Full Control, then Click OK.
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Then Exit Registry Editor by Click the X or the red X on the Upper Right of the
Title Bar or press ALT and F4 at the same time.
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To Verify that it works, go to start, then "activate windows", or go to start, t
hen all programs, then "activate windows"
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If it says that Windows has been activated, then the trick works, if not repeat
these steps or watch the video instead (see below)