it seems to me there are 2 sides: one side says it will, one side says not. i for one are on the not side. this is why rumors are rumors. it's all hearsay conjured up by Microsoft to scare all warez users into quickly going out and paying for something ridiculously expensive. and even if it is true i agree inside a week or so there would be a keygen. end of story.

I don't think there are two sides any more. Any lingering doubts that Orig's article contained a shred of truth have been shot to pieces.

Epyx

yep, thanks Epyx, just slipstreamed XP Corp SP1 successfully, so much for all the paranoid BS

Please enlighten us swampy. Noone has been able to slipstream into a corp installation before, so please let us know how you did this.

All effords made earlier resulted in a Windows XP version witch only accepted Retail keys, not the corps keys.

Thanks ;)

Cheers!

Epyx has a post over at iexbeta on replacing two files after the slipstream to get it to work with the corp version.

Excellent post Epyx, thank you very much.
Dave

Yup,

Got it now. Thanks! :)

Cheers!

guys, easy fix, go to compusa with a palm pilot..or a pen and paper...or a pen and the palm of your hand and write down a cd-key from a compaq. turst me they never take it off the systems, i've seen them there. then just activate it, call them tell them you upgraded and wish to reactivate on your *new* system. bingo, activated copy of windows. Why bother with corp when it's this easy?

PS
every 4 months, activation data on their servers is reset, meaning you can install on a new machine with the same cd key every 4 months.



Last edited by Falcom at Jul 31 2002, 12:29 AM

oh yeah, and as others have said, give it a couple weeks after release, it WILL be cracked again, all software always is. Name a program out there that hasn't ever been cracked.....ever...

Is this true? I had not heard of this before. I was going to try this method, but because they are activated at the factory (or so I'm told), I didn't think the same key could be used to activate another machine.

I wonder what happens if a person buys the display model and reformats and tries to activate. I assume it won't work for them, but could M$ trace it to me. Seems like it would be easier to stay with corp.



Last edited by MinnesotaKid at Jul 31 2002, 05:42 PM

the 4 month thing i've never verified, but i've heard it's true from people who work close to M$ at my work. Anyway, if the activation hardware hash is truely one way, they can't tell what you changed, or even how much was changed, just that it is changed. so just call them, tell them you upgraded your motherboard(with onboard NIC), cpu, memory and video card and need to reactivate. they have to reactivate for you, and since they don't require personal information, they can't trace you unless you are stupid. worst case scenerio, you reactivate a key so many times it becomes suspect, so go to compusa again, and get a new key.

Falcom: You are correct. In fact, this has always been the case because MS had to be lenient with its legit customers. This meant it was fairly easy to pull a fast one on them.

Personally though, I don't know why you'd bother with any of this activation crap though. The thing I learned during the beta was that WPA can be flaky. The Corp version turns WPA completely off and that is how most of us prefer it.

Epyx

Epyx,
Nice post and thanks again for the info. Your work has been appreciated since the early betas back in '01.
Mike G

Damn right, you're a legend.

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absolutely!... and dont forget AngelDeath!