Pikey Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 There seems to at least a couple of different expiry dates floating around .. not sure why that would be! Anyway here's mine .. it's a UK regional install btw What else is out there ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uberv Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Mine is the same as yours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windows7even Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 depending on what region your in the expiration date format will be different, ie. 02/03/2009 or 03/02/2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StixBit Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Same date here ( UK ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woswos72 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 same date here Turkey (TR) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee31 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 (edited) There seems to at least a couple of different expiry dates floating around .. not sure why that would be!Anyway here's mine .. it's a UK regional install btw What else is out there ... Have you never heard of time zones? The expiry date is based on local time at 1 minute to GMT. Once we in the UK turn our clocks back in October the expiry date will change to 01/03/09 23:59 because currently we're on BST or GMT +1 but then we'll be back to GMT. In other words it expires everywhere at 23:59 GMT on the 1st of March 2010 but the date and time shown is the users local time at this point. Edited April 29, 2009 by lee26 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debsuvra Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 How come my installation does not have an expiry date at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breakthrough Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 How come my installation does not have an expiry date at all? I'm going to assume you activated Windows... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyolc8 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 How come my installation does not have an expiry date at all? type into startmenu this: winver and press enter, and there's the date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prue3 Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 [ NOOB QUESTION ALERT ] :pinch: how do I open up the "About Windows" window to see my exp. date? edit :: ehh never mind, nyolc8 answered the question... :p 2nd edit :: I have an exp. date (2.3.10) even though I had activated my win7 with a key from MSDN... why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paixao Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Almost everyone activated windows and the expiry thate is there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 My expiration date is 3/1/2010... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
debsuvra Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 I'm going to assume you activated Windows... I did activate Windows. type into startmenu this: winverand press enter, and there's the date. OK, I got it now. Somehow 'About Windows' from Explorer isn't showing the expiration date while 'winver' does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHW Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 3/1/2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draken Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Same date here AR. oh boy!! :rolleyes: yeah you can activate a RC1 copy, but that doesn't mean you can run it forever!! you have to pay for that, and is not a final version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleSpellbinder Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 Same date here AR.oh boy!! :rolleyes: yeah you can activate a RC1 copy, but that doesn't mean you can run it forever!! you have to pay for that, and is not a final version. So? You can still run Win 7 RC until the expiry date as an evaluation copy without issue as a main OS. You'll continue to get updates until the expiry date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cammy Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 hold on a minute, if i enter my windows 7 serial key that i got from their website it doesnt work...asks me to phone advisor/retype etc. and above it it says "you have 30 days to activate windows" :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 So? You can still run Win 7 RC until the expiry date as an evaluation copy without issue as a main OS. You'll continue to get updates until the expiry date. With the exception of Windows Defender, what makes you think that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey B. Veteran Posted April 29, 2009 Veteran Share Posted April 29, 2009 3/1/2010 for me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kpo6969 Subscriber¹ Posted April 29, 2009 Subscriber¹ Share Posted April 29, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SMELTN Posted April 29, 2009 Share Posted April 29, 2009 same as most Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qdave Posted April 30, 2009 Share Posted April 30, 2009 3/1/2010 for me as well. same here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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