re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 3:30 pm
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Posted by lmc
(7 messages posted)
I guess the consensus is that MS doesn't have their products check in. I find it
unlikely that its "impossible", except perhaps inasmuch as it would be a PR screwup
of major proportions.
BTW, I wasn't advocating using this. The name on the header was supplied by the
website, and I didn't know enough to fix it; I was just trying to straighten out
an impression that I had, and answer a couple of things I read in the earlier postings.
On Sunday, February 20, 2005 at 12:54 pm, lmc wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?:
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I believe that I've heard that every once in a while XP' WPA (and other activated
>products, like Office XP/2003 and development apps) phone home to make sure all
is
>well. That would kill the suggestion in the notes above that it may be possible
>to use an activation on several computers by lying about moving a single copy to
>a new computer. Does anyone know if that is really the case?
>
>WRT using an OEM disk - an OEM disk is Windows plus whatever the OEM wanted to
>add to it, including, possibly, software to detect what model/mfgr/SN the Windows
>is running on and refuse if it's the wrong one. I've never been able to successfully
>"clean" such a disk back to the MS generic product, though I know that people claim
>it can be done. The only safe disks to use on other computers are real, MS generic
>disks. MS probably doesn't really care whether these disks get copied and distributed
>or not, because their real defense is in the WPA; professional admins don't keep
>the hundreds of disks about that would be needed if this were the case, and besides,
>they build new ones through "slip-streaming" with MS' full blessing when a new SP
>comes out. MS even designed the system to do that, and publishes the procedure.
>
>However, don't simply take my advice as legal - I'm not a lawyer and I don't
work
>for MS. Besides, lawyers in general can be very anal about their client's priviledges,
>and the disks still say "Do not copy" on them.
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