Windows XP SP2 for ALL

[NY1]

:pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :pirate: :omg: :bounce: :bounce: :ninja: :ninja: :pacifier: :pacifier:

[SaBuJo]

I install SP2_2120 and get a message for Activate my Windows... Result: Re-format HD and re-install WnXP!!!

[Slimy]

I install SP2_2120 and get a message for Activate my Windows... Result: Re-format HD and re-install WnXP!!!

ha ha :p

[uniacidz]

Goodo on MS for this.

Will stop Grandma Memma and Uncle Frank from having a heart attack under fear their computers will **** up after installing SP2.

:D

[mipra]

:p Aghh...Devil 1, MS 0

[ahfunaki]

I have both a legal and illegal copy of xp pro. Honestly when I format I use the illegal copy to install because 1, it has sp1 already where as my legal copy doesn't. and 2 I don't have to call ms and tell them why my key is being used again like I do when I use my legal copy.

So I could care less if they do this or not. If they block illegal copies then I'll just use my legal one...

[Wigglez]

You kidz might wanna check this one out. :p

Microsoft Corrects: No XP SP2 for Pirated Copies.

The original link did look a bit fishy to me as well.

/me shrugs.

[Chode]

You kidz might wanna check this one out. :p

Microsoft Corrects: No XP SP2 for Pirated Copies.

The original link did look a bit fishy to me as well.

/me shrugs.

Welcome to neowin.

I won't flame you like others might, but I'll let you know that generally it isn't a good move to bump a thread that is about a month old. :)

[Wigglez]

/me shrugs again.

:p

[Circaflex]

so if your pid is not 640 it will detect it as pirated and not install?

[orphic]

I have both a legal and illegal copy of xp pro. Honestly when I format I use the illegal copy to install because 1, it has sp1 already where as my legal copy doesn't. and 2 I don't have to call ms and tell them why my key is being used again like I do when I use my legal copy.

So I could care less if they do this or not. If they block illegal copies then I'll just use my legal one...

Just wait for the slipstreamed iso with SP2. ;)

[AppleDave Veteran]

by the way when the hell is SP2 going to come out?!

[John Veteran]

:rolleyes: The 640 means absolutely nothing when it comes to legal/illegal keys. Do you guys honestly think there's a little flag in all the keygens and the illegal keys that says "I'm illegal!" when you install it? You think Windows just says "Oh, ok, I'll use this illegal one anyway, I just won't activate"... WTF!?! Get a clue before you guys spout off garbage. There's a special forumla that Windows uses to verify a key, and a special generator at Microsoft that generates the keys. Sure, they will have info in them like retail, OEM, VLK, etc. but Windows can't possibly know if it's a pirated key. If it did, don't you think you'd all be ******? The thing is, Microsoft put code in the key validation sequence of SP1 and higher to check the key you entered against a blacklist of known pirated keys. If the key you enter is in that list, Windows won't accept it, even though the RTM version would have (because it's a legal key, it's use is just out of control). Microsoft can add to this blacklist whenever they please, and this is what you have to worry about.

[Circaflex]

yes but i remember a thread telling what certain PID numbers are gonna be blacklisted but i couldnt find that thread

[John Veteran]

What was said in that thread could have been a rumor. Don't believe everything you hear online. Unless you have personal experience with something, how can you ever be sure of how it works? ;)

[=Syntax=]

Gezzz,, ya think ?? M$ has every single key, gen, crack, work-around that everybody else has. They pay crackers big bucks to sit around a do what many of you do.. Hello !!!

[Zirus]

Gezzz,, ya think ?? M$ has every single key, gen, crack, work-around that everybody else has. They pay crackers big bucks to sit around a do what many of you do.. Hello !!!

I want that job!

[Sumi]

That article is from May 5, 2004

It's old. Microsoft has since then said SP2 won't be avalible to pirates!

[PROGAME]

What was said in that thread could have been a rumor. Don't believe everything you hear online. Unless you have personal experience with something, how can you ever be sure of how it works? ;)

it was confirmed by many people.... legit corp editions have a 640 PID, and the blue list Keegan makes other keys too, so ms blacklisted the other PIDs

a keygen was made to generate 640 PIDs only

[.Kompressor]

The only thing that ticks me off about XP is that you have to call MS to activate your computer if you make hardware changes. I'll rather put up with a MAC or Linux over crap like that.

I want to control when and how many times i reinstall XP. It's not like they charged $20.00 for the software in the first place. All of windows OS's are based on the previous Predecessor from 98 - XP and the price is always the same as if it's all new code being written.

[John Veteran]

it was confirmed by many people.... legit corp editions have a 640 PID, and the blue list Keegan makes other keys too, so ms blacklisted the other PIDs

a keygen was made to generate 640 PIDs only

I know about that. But what are you saying? How does any of this suggest that SP2 will or will not block more keys?

[John Veteran]

The only thing that ticks me off about XP is that you have to call MS to activate your computer if you make hardware changes. I'll rather put up with a MAC or Linux over crap like that.

I want to control when and how many times i reinstall XP. It's not like they charged $20.00 for the software in the first place. All of windows OS's are based on the previous Predecessor from 98 - XP and the price is always the same as if it's all new code being written.

Give me a break :rolleyes: Activation takes maybe 5 minutes, and it's a free call. Assuming you don't install everything that you can find, you shouldn't have to reinstall XP that often. If you learn just a little bit about the insides of XP, you should rarely have to reinstall it, i mean like once in maybe several years.

And FYI - there are two lines of Windows (well, only one now). Windows 2000 and XP are versions of Windows NT, which was written more or less from the ground up with IBM during the OS/2 project...

[Evolution]

it was confirmed by many people.... legit corp editions have a 640 PID, and the blue list Keegan makes other keys too, so ms blacklisted the other PIDs

a keygen was made to generate 640 PIDs only

If that were true, then a lot of people who acquired VLKs through Universities, MSDN, MSDAA, etc. won't be able to install SP2 :p Does that really make sense? ...I think not

[PROGAME]

I know about that. But what are you saying? How does any of this suggest that SP2 will or will not block more keys?

Circaflex said that certain PID numbers are going to be blacklisted, you said it might be a rumor.

All i did was confirm there really are certain PID numbers (ie certain keys) blocked in SP2 (RC2 at least) which worked fine in SP1.

Of course everything can change in the final...

i don't like helping a month old bumped thread stay in the main page :unsure:

[John Veteran]

I never heard of any newly blocked keys in RC2 :dontgetit: Do you have a source? In one of the RC1 builds, there was a bug that blocked a lot of VLK licensed copies...