See screenshot right. It helps to know that your Windows 8 Consumer Preview will last until January , even then, the worst thing that can happen is that it will reboot every hour, thus you could still use if for testing.
Now extended to What about the Consumer Preview? That expires on January 15th What Does Windows 8 Expire Mean? Will it refuse to boot when the expiry date arrives? Another Experiment I set the system date to February 28th , and rebooted, the above warning message disappeared. Confirmation of Expires from Winver! Dual Booting Windows 8 and Windows 7 Before you create a dual boot configuration remember that you cannot uninstall Windows 8. If you have any questions or concerns regarding any content published here, feel free to contact us using the Contact link below.
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Well, guess what? Microsoft punished he who procrastinates. You see, the confirmation email the company sends you when you purchase your license contains a link, and that leads to a Windows 8 upgrade assistant. The problem is, once you get through running this and obtain your key, then the download process turns out to be much longer than the time between reboots of your expired computer.
Restarting the process upon reboot is of little help -- Microsoft begins the whole process again, including asking for your credit card number for a key. There is, however, a work-around for this mess.
Point your browser to this site. There you will find an installer, as opposed to an upgrade assistant. It is faster and requires only the input of your key.
Now, next time, let us both learn from this lesson and not allow this to happen again.
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