How to block windows 7 activation pop

Asked 5 years, 3 months ago. Active 3 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 32k times. Improve this question. Tetsujin 37k 7 7 gold badges 82 82 silver badges bronze badges. Yuu Mori Yuu Mori 19 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. This sounds like an XY Problem - you need to concentrate on why the activation isn't sticking, rather than ways to prevent the activation process from happening.

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I'm setting up a couple of Windows 7 virtual machines for testing purposes. Unfortunately VMware workstation enables automatic activation during Windows installation without giving me the option to disable it. I guess this might bring me into trouble when a couple of Windows 7 clients will try to activate themselves providing the same configuration IDs.

How can I disable automatic activation after setup has taken place? Saturday, September 19, PM. And it's doubtable that creating that key would work given this new structure.

It seems to work, no automatic activation and I'm surfing the net. Maybe someone can verify my gamble as the correct solution to this problem? Thursday, October 1, PM. Hi, Just for others who read this, when you are installing from W7 disc watch out for the tick in Automatic Activation box untick it. Only thing you can do is to not allow connection to the internet in Vmware.

Slan go foill, Paul. Sunday, September 20, PM. Hi, have a look at the link below: Enable and disable Auto-activation feature You can refer to the steps in the article to disable the Auto-activation feature.

Cecilia Zhou. Tuesday, September 22, AM. Hi Cecilia, thanks for your reply. Thursday, September 24, AM. Unfortunately I can't confirm. I've got another Windows 7 installation having manual activation running.

So that doesn't seem to do the trick :. Hi, you can try the application described in the following link: Windows 7 : Disable Activation of Windows 7 and Server Regards. The Notification options let you hear a sound and display the Information bar when a pop-up is blocked.

It's a good idea to select both those options so that you know when a page has been blocked. That way, you can decide whether you want to allow a Web site to show pop-ups. Remember, not all pop-ups are bad. If you already know that you want to allow pop-ups from a specific site, you can type the site's URL under Address of Website to Allow and then click the Add button.

Doing so is not really necessary, however; if you choose the Show Information Bar when a pop-up is blocked option, you can allow sites as you go. Click the Close button at the bottom of the Pop-up Settings dialog box after making your selections. Then click OK to close the Internet Options dialog box. Click the Privacy tab.