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If you are using Windows 8 Enterprise evaluation RTM as your primary OS,
then you have made a big mistake. You probably should have installed it in an
virtual environment .The evaluation period lasts for 90 days and after the trial
period expires, it cannot be renewed even you have purchased genuine
license, nor can it be downgraded or upgraded to another edition. So, what
happens when the 90 day trial period expires? The answer is--automatic
shutdown that gets triggered every hour. There are no warnings before
shutdown and you will lose all of your work. Microsoft was very clear about
this from the beginning and they have used similar tactics on previous
version of Windows too.
Now, you have got no choice to install another version of windows. This can
be a pain when you have no access to physical installation media and you
may have problems getting other version of Windows from the internet.
However, there is a solution to this. The automatic shutdown is the doing of a
process/service that runs in the background and starts a timer that runs down
when you have logged into your machine. This service is called "Windows
Licence Monitoring Service". Well, you can guess what it does. It basically
monitors the licence state of the machine and if it has expired, it triggers an
automatic shutdown. If you try to end this process through task manager
then you will probably get blue screen of death (BSOD).
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--Yajmir Miryaj