Is it still safe to update windows with a (iilegal) key?
because im hearing stuff, im thinking about downloading that release of corporate with all updates until feb thats out on tb but is it still safe?
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Is it still safe to update windows with a (iilegal) key?
because im hearing stuff, im thinking about downloading that release of corporate with all updates until feb thats out on tb but is it still safe?
Yes, I dont see why not.
I hear "stuff" every day.....Quote:
Originally Posted by suprafreak6
be more specific, what exactly are you hearing?
have you checked the sources of said hearings? :blink:
is it all in your mind?
do the voices ever shut up?
more importantly...do you reply to the voices?
:P
oh i have no trust in my sources (because they were mostly comments on torrents) hahah and the news...psh f*** news
lol ownage...:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by fkdup74
lolf.
As far as I know they can't track you when you update, not to such a specific degree they can tell if your particular key was valid, anyhow.
When activating windows I think your key gets checked by their server, but even then I don't think they track illegal keys.
As for updating with an illegal key, I think the key gets checked locally if you use windows update, and not at all if you do automatic updates, as the key has already been declared valid when you installed windows.
That's how I understand it, anyhow.
Can't help but think of that movie Marathon Man (Evil Dentist ) is it safe ? :)
I would n't worry about it myself and theres the old disable Manage Add on's trick. As Tu quoque, says just enable Auto Updates .
i did a project for my high school once and we were putting windows 2000 on all the woodshop computers and we all used the same cd key...would microsoft get pissed about 30 computers with the same cd key we got off the internet?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tu quoque
Disable manage add on's trick no longer works after downloading the latest windows update
this file fixes the problem
ed2k link
Windows Genuine Advantage Validation v1.5.512.0
I tried to post it in the verified section, but its all gone complicated since I last posted verifieds :(
Well, I'm assuming it's illegal if you got it off the internet, so they'd be pissed.Quote:
Originally Posted by cashvillecrush
If they knew, that is, but they'd need to keep track of keys in another way than they do, I think, for them to be able to figure it out.
With win2k I don't think there's any matching of key and hardware-ID either, and since you prolly connected to the internet through a common gateway, I wonder if they'd even notice that it was thirty different computers.
how exactly do they decide that a certain cd key is pirated and stop accepting it?
do they check and see if another computer has the same cd key registered?
With keys from keygens, I think it's pure maths.
They add a condition the keygens can't yet emulate, which lets them determine that the key is bad.*
As for keys off lists, I think they check them out the same way as we do.
Pretty sure they did it that way with the keys they blacklisted so you can't install SP2 (xp).
It's possible that they also keep track of locations and what keys are used, so that if the same key is used from several locations, they check that out. But I wonder about that since proxies and stuff would screw that up.
Apart from that, they've got privacy statements of their own, and privacy laws in different countries that should prohibit them from registering too much.
With xp (not corp), they (automatically) match your hardware to your key when you activate it, right?
EDit: * I suppose they might actually have been keeping track of what keys they've sold licenses with, but wouldn't that make for slow registering having to go through the database for every activation?
unless you have got a corprate editionof xp pro eventually you wont be able to register a perticular version of windows with the same key you will trigger a predetermined limit I used up mine but it was a real version and I just reinstall windows alot and you phone them and press a button and they unlock it right there you dont even have to tell them much info it is kinda freaky.Which brings me to my next point about microsoft not knowing exactly where you are when you get caught using pirated software You guys are dreaming if you honestly think that they dont know where you are they just dont care YET.they want the big companies that have thousands of employees using pirated software that way they acctually get something.You think microsoft lawyers are going to waste their time on people like us!!!! Man there lawyers fart out like twenty Alienware laptops an Hour.But you you guys are kidding your selves if you think microsoft doesnt know exactly where you are COME ON!!!!! My biggest question is why would you want to turn on automatic updates anyway Just make slipstream cds when a service pack comes out in beetween it doesnt matter.I still us windows with SP1 and I have absolutly no problems with any thing I have a harware firewall and up to date avast and untill I have problems I aint installing SP2 cause I installed it once when it first came out and my computer crashed.Put it this way the more updates you put on the harder it is to keep that pirated xp cause the first thing on the list for every service pack isnt 'browser security' or 'media player vulnarashut the fuckup' you think they really care that its hard for you to get rid of a troj cause you were out playing limey-dick-kazza-bear-humper NO they spend months giggling about vulnarashutthef***up and making it harder for fake windows users and then like three days before the service packs are due they fix like two problems havent you notices that every major release from microsoft hasbeen a gong show that breaks more than it fixes.THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!
Jeebus, man. That's the most mental-looking post I've seen in a while.
And that takes some doing.
yeah i didnt even want to read it all, its very unattractive
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Originally Posted by suprafreak6
Don't drink and post children ! Not that I would ever do that . :whistling