How to: Crack Vista (not!)
 

If you read my little thing regarding activating Vista VLK,
you might have noticed that Microsoft is making things harder for people who wants
to use an unlegal copy of their new flagship.

Just like Captain Jack Sparrow, there are new and modern "pirates" out there, who wants to
"crack" the secrets of security that Microsoft has added to Vista.

One of them, calling himself "Doctor Chang", claims to have the perfect crack:
As you see, he has "picture proofs" to back it all up...
I won't post them here, instead I will post some others, to show that there is no such thing as a free lunch...

Beeing a curious person, I wanted to see if this was for real, or just another one bragging off,
pretending he had (re-)inventing the wheel.
Doing a clean install of Vista (32bit) RTM, followed by the pirates instructions,
gave a intresting result (but not supprising).

The first mistake he did, was to forget this nice little utillity that comes with Windows,
called : winver.exe that after the so-called crack is applied, will show that the Vista installation
will expire, and it will give you the date and time of when it expires.
(hint: the same date and time as your Beta/RC key expires)

Second,
there are some updates he never tried to download I guess ;)
Thats where my picture-proofs comes into action :
First, lets try to download the new version of Active Sync (to sync your contacts with Windows Mobile)
To do this, you have to add a key to your registry, reboot and do a Windows Update.
My computer found the update, but when trying to download it I got this message: UpdateNotWorking.jpg
So I followed what it suggested: update.jpg
The result was this: Shit.jpg


Now I ask you to draw your own conclusions, would this "Pirate" survive a long time in the Carribbean ?

I am glad someone checked this out as others may try this and cause themselves real problems.

If I was going to try this OS I would wait till it had been out for a little while and then just buy it as using files as mentioned can cause problems without you knowing it.

Thanks
Dudelive

Hell BC, my Friend.

When you NOT loaded this MS-Update from 14.12.06, you can ever run the Vista Ultimate with the License from Build 5744 (RC2) with you original Key from MS (Public Beta 2).

I hav se today this Update and another for Windows Defender. I load only this for Windows Defender in my Vista Ultimate, and all is ok. My Vista Ultimate run to 1.6.07 with the RC2 original Key from MS.

Greetings from Germany fritz122

So far BC, talking about the pirates

1/ only PCs with no serial installed
2/ running beta 2 keys



are able to get Windows Updates.

hee hee hee

minor update :
 

I recieved a PM,
Point 1 : READ my first post in this thread, then read it again...
Point 2 : BetaONE do NOT support this kind of activity !