How to manually set the KMS host on a Windows 7 machine.

  1. Open a command prompt with Administrative Privileges. (From the Start menu choose All Programs select Accessories. From there right-click on Command Prompt and select Run as Administrator
  2. Change to the “c:\windows\system32″ directory: cd c:\windows\system32
  3. Run the following command to set the KMS Server: cscript slmgr.vbs -skms yourkmshost.domain.com.
  4. Run the following command to activate against the newly set KMS: cscript slmgr.vbs -ato.