Protecteur has been asking about how you work around the 180 time bomb on sp2. How do you? I am having senior moments on this subject. Remember reading certain sutff on this forum and have "lost it". Anyone help?

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KingCobra, Voodoo, Seducer,

Not sure if it will work but you can try TweakNT, it's attatched below. I installed SP2 as an upgrade to an SP1 installation and don't have a time bomb, or if i do i havent seen any sgn of it. Let us know if it works.

Hi Dog,

Thanks. I read in a couple posts that the SP-2 RC2 has a time bomb in it. I guess this isn't true. I just set my pc up a year and rebooted. No difference. So, this concern must be bogus. NO?

Btw, anybody know if SP-2 will be a free service pack or if MS is gonna charge money for it?

I've got SP2 RC2 on a Pro desktop and on a Home laptop. So far so good. Except NAV doesn't seem to be recognized by the new security management interface.

It hasn't been since the earliest beta's and i don't think it was even detected in the pre beta builds. The only AV that i have seen reports of being detected was McAffee. certainly norton, panda, and NOD don't get detected- have tried them all. Not sure why but MS seem to like McAffee.........

Thanks for the info since I also had the NAV question. B)

Windows XP SP2 RC2 has a 180 time bomb. More than enough before the final build is released.

Anyways Tweak NT is the easy way to remove time bomb after install.

However if you wish to get rid of it completly simple extract the attached file to your i386 directory. :)

Also serivce packs are free. So yes SP2 is a free serivce pack.

BTW its illegal to charge for bug fixes. ;)

So microsoft just calls them new features. :P

Thanks War for setting the record straight and for the reg file

FYI:
I clean installed XP Pro Retail, skipping SP1, then went straight to installing RC1 and then RC2.

TweakNT reports "no timebomb".

Then it was removed oviously. Or was it a direct download from microsoft. Mine had a 180 time bomb untill I removed. Downloaded one from microsoft.com and one from http://windowsbeta.microsoft.com/.

Not sure of the origin Will but it was a torrent download.
But oddly enough the eula states 180 Day License :huh:

I think quite a few betas from MS used the standard beta license, permitting you to evaluate it for 180 days, however not all of them actually enforced the licence. Generally if winver doesn't report an expiry date, Windows won't expire.

That said, clicking on eula after running winver brings up 180 day license. I'll set my date ahead shortly and report back.


*** As I type this, my machine is set 1 year ahead. So the bottom line is that although the eula says so........there is no timebomb in the 2149 that I used. ***

i cant imagine that this release will be the latest/final one, so 180 day time bomb wont even come into play..IMHO..

I ran nt and it found nothing for the 180 days as well.

At minimum Belthazor posted and I always feel younger after seeing Electra. :)

I didn't have any timebomb !!

I just have install it over my XP Sp1 and everything is fine !!
Here my PID::

I'm not sure, but I think MS have a licencing deal with McAfee??