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Cosmic
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Posted on Mon Feb 9, 2004 1:21 am
Can anyone tell me what kind of protection Win XP has to prevent someone from using another person's cd key?
Not that I would ever think of cheating Bill Gates out of money. Coz |
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Dolemyte
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Posted on Mon Feb 9, 2004 2:29 am
WindowsXP uses a pretty ingenious copy protection that is different from all previous versions of Windows. After you enter the CD Key during the install and you complete the installation process you then have to "activate" your copy over the internet or over the phone. The activation process gets key information from your machine that uniquely identifies specific hardware components in your machine. If too many of these components change you will then have to re-activate Windows. After it has been re-activated twice because of extreme hardware changes you will actually have to beg the 2nd or 3rd level of support at MS to reactivate it for you. Even then you must sufficiently convince them that you have a legal installation.
Now, as with anything, there are ways around all of this, but I am not going to dare touch them here. And they are not simply "fooling the copy protection." If you have your original CD from Windows95, 98, ME, etc. you can buy the cheaper upgrade version and still do a full clean XP installation. |
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