There will always be working OEM / volume licensing keys.

mkubiak402 wrote:

Will they release a final we don't support this any more here is a no Key patch have at it..?

Ha, no chance! This is the company that successfully sued someone last year for selling reproduced XP OEM cd's. No keys, just the locked down OEM CD requiring the user to still activate.
I'm actually surprised it still works and they haven't simply said "no longer supported" may have forced more people to upgrade back in 2016.

Activation hacks already exist and volume licence gets around the whole issue all together whenever MS decide to pull the plug

Yeah when XP is dropped on the activations servers the workarounds work fine.

I ceased to care about the legality of even Windows 7 activation workarounds, let alone XP, long ago.

Once I read the EULA of XP. There was a paragraph saying that whenever Microsoft decides to drop the activation process, they will provide customers a way to keep using the system. So don't worry, they'll release some kind of activation tool, or an official activation-killing update.

Or at least they promised to do so.

But I think that XP activation will continue to work at least for a couple of years.

They will tell you old installs will keep working but not new installs. So you get to keep using the system until it gets corrupted and that's it.
That or they will make you call in for activation hoping nobody will bother being on hold for 3 hours to do it.

Unknown_K wrote:

They will tell you old installs will keep working but not new installs. So you get to keep using the system until it gets corrupted and that's it.
That or they will make you call in for activation hoping nobody will bother being on hold for 3 hours to do it.

We could always use registry hacks but it be best we don't talk about that here.

Azarien wrote:

Once I read the EULA of XP. There was a paragraph saying that whenever Microsoft decides to drop the activation process, they will provide customers a way to keep using the system. So don't worry, they'll release some kind of activation tool, or an official activation-killing update.

Or at least they promised to do so.

I doubt that paragraph exists and if it did, the people who wrote it were as serious about it as the ones who wrote in the iTunes EULA that it shouldn't be used to develop nuclear weapons.

chinny22 wrote:

Ha, no chance! This is the company that successfully sued someone last year for selling reproduced XP OEM cd's. No keys, just th […]
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mkubiak402 wrote:

Will they release a final we don't support this any more here is a no Key patch have at it..?

Ha, no chance! This is the company that successfully sued someone last year for selling reproduced XP OEM cd's. No keys, just the locked down OEM CD requiring the user to still activate.
I'm actually surprised it still works and they haven't simply said "no longer supported" may have forced more people to upgrade back in 2016.

Activation hacks already exist and volume licence gets around the whole issue all together whenever MS decide to pull the plug

They did?

Why?

Re: Microsoft vs. Recycler article
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/201 … u-s-government/

The guy isn't a hero. Read the docs it's all there. Example: In one he commens how accurate the counterfeit is and in another he complains about the charges against him by stating that the copies aren't exact reproductions. If the discs had no value then why did he spend so much money on them?

WPA_KILL

DosFreak wrote:

Re: Microsoft vs. Recycler article
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/201 … u-s-government/

The guy isn't a hero. Read the docs it's all there. Example: In one he commens how accurate the counterfeit is and in another he complains about the charges against him by stating that the copies aren't exact reproductions. If the discs had no value then why did he spend so much money on them?

He is clearly not a hero 🤣
Just a counterfeiter.

One word (an acronym): SLP. It means System Locked Preinstallation.

little edit to clarify: the system needs not to have been literally provided preinstalled for you (needs not include any OEM crapware) as long as you can get untouched OEM XP installation media somehow, and this way you don't need to use any possibly questionable code that did not come from Microsoft to activate, though at this point XP already isn't that secure of an OS regardless and you may need to edit your BIOS or trust a 3rd party anyway...