Use Windows 7 RC for one more month!
March 3, 2010 by Vishal Laul
Filed under Softwares
Windows 7 RC was released some month’s back with a note that it is going to expire on 2nd March and completely stop working from June.
Now when it has expired, its restarting in every 2 hours without saving anything or giving any warning, however we have found a temporary fix!, just change the year of your computer’s date to 2009 or 2008, and it should not restart every 2 hours anymore! If for some reason it does not work , just check if date has also changed in BIOS.
Applications/Services that will get affected by this trick so beware:
- Internet browser
- SSL
- HTTPS protocol
- Windows Media center — downloads old TV Guides
- Softwares
- All antivirus
Online services that will get affected
- Paypal will not work.
- Gmail will work but will show certificate error.
- Some websites will not work due to SSL and HTTPS, these websites have certificates and your browser verifies the certificates, every certificate has a expiry and issue date, if your computer date is before the issue date the certificate is not valid, and if it is not valid it causes a “Certificate Invalid error” most of the times just clicking proceed works.
So, this trick is for those people who want to upgrade their pc right now or they cant buy a Windows 7 final release right now. This is a temporary work around.
If you tried this little trick yet powerful and if it worked please leave a comment so others also know.
I dont know if it works, but changing date in bios or windows will prevent to log in into SLL sites like hotmail, banks …
yes it does give error for certificate validation in web browsers, but you can just click proceed and it will open the website, although sites like paypal (completely working on HTTPS) will not work.