slmgr is not recognized as an internal or external command -Fix this Error

Last updated on July 20th, 2019 at 10:53 am

You might see error slmgr is not recognized as an internal or external command while doing some changes on your PC. Sometime you might see an error along with this as the maximum allowed number of rearms has been executed. You can easily fix this error.

Why do you see this error?

There are so many reasons to see these error and below in this tutorial you will see all the possible solution to your problem. Make sure you will copy the same command I have shown in step 2, as there is space between SLMGR and -REARM, also see the extension is written correctly or not. Follow some steps below to fix this problem.

slmgr is not recognized as an internal or external command -Fix

Follow some simple steps to fix this error.

STEP 1: Open a command prompt (type cmd in the taskbar) and run it as an administrator. Make sure you have selected it as run as an administrator (right-click on cmd and select).

STEP 2: Now enter the below command and hit enter.

SLMGR -REARM

NOTE: Here you might see that this command might not works. This is because your extension to slmgr might be different. You can easily change it. Follow the below steps to change this extension.

Go to My Computer (or This PC)
Open Local Disk (C:) and double click on System 32
In the System 32 folder, search for slmgr.vbs Here remove any other extension if you see next to slmgr.vbs by rename that file from the Right-click. You might see slmgr.REMOVEWAT or see something like that then change it to slmgr.vbs

Now restart your computer and this time you are not going to see any error related to this. If you see any other errors related to an internal or external command, use this trick to fix this problem.

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