How to stop windows from automatic shutdown

We might have come across many times while using windows evaluation OS version, so when the trail periods expiry it’s tend to reboot frequently, the automatic shutdown triggers every hour. Microsoft has made it very clear that - you should activate the product online within 10 days after installing.

-If you’re using eval period to overcome this, we need to re-install the Operating system freshly.

This is usually caused due to process/service which runs in background "Windows License Monitoring Service” it basically monitors the license state of the system and if it has expires it triggers the shutdown.

Our’ recommendation is to stop/remove the WLMS service. But this tutorial does not encourages to promote the piracy but helps people who have issue in running windows for an hour and want to copy their important data.

Download the PSTOOL from the below link:

http://download.sysinternals.com/files/PSTools.zip

Save the unzipped folder in c drive

Run the command as administrator

Navigate to the Pstool folder

   

Run the below command:

psexec -i -d -s cmd

which opens a new cmd with nt authority\system account

Now, here type: whoami

Will show nt authority\system account

Type sc delete WLMS

This will delete the services

Type regedit

Above command will open the registry editor

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->System->CurrentControlSet->Services

Right click on: WLMS key and delete

This is how it will work and your machine will not reboot frequently.