www.tweaktown.com

Absolutely Gerbil person. MS create a monopoly then want to charge you nearly £300 for their new creation. Pirate copy of XP anybody ?????

Shutup Gerbil and get back on arc you loser.

hahaha

-paps

Yes, you are correct.

Everyone needs to switch to Linux Immediately!

I have been investigating your crooked Government, and they really have been stalking people, which is a Federal Crime.

Now they are getting into all of your computers, stalking you thru your own telephone lines. How do I know this you ask? I can finally prove it in Court, and I have begun Legal action Against the US Government.

Fox Moulder of the FBI called me up on the computer, and stated "There is an Illegal wire tap on your phone".

You need to start doing something about the crimes that your government people are commiting. Get off your couch, and start helping, instead of sitting there watching TV all the time.

The FBI has stated that they are going to be arresting some of these crooked police.

Anyone who denies Free Speach, I will begin Legal Action Againt.

When someone finds a hack for winXP pro, e-mail it to me at tado_tendo@juno.com
PLEASE

How can I get around the write protection on Win XP so I can make copies? Or can I even do it?

Anyone out there witha hacked registry key for microsoft xp pro edition? or Know where a guy can find one? I have hacked keys for the home edition but I am looking for the pro edition.

rbdc9 vtrc8 d7972 j97jy prvmg

Originally Posted by jamie_m_
Anyone have a cd Key for win 2k server ?

I have had enough with how bad Microsoft are. I am looking for people to help me form a group that stops them snooping on us. Anybody Interested?

.oOo.Hellfire.oOo.

Everyone shoule switch to Linux......ITS FREEEEEE.

Anyone know where I can get the hack for Win XP RC2 so as instead of it being a 180 day trial it is now a unlimited product, for free I might add ;o)

Make the cost of the new Office $100 instead of $400 and licensing won't be a problem.
BTW w/ hot swapable fire wire drives, USB 2, and other super fast compact storage devices
becoming the norm, you may just carry your OS and/ or at least your "software tool box" with you.
and plug it in to the computer you need to use it on. IE,IBM's 1gb microdrive, etc.... Perhaps hot-swapable
portable OS, and software may become the norm, just store all your drivers for your particular system on a
"dummy" PC and bring your OS& tools w/ you on your microdrive. Sorry Microsoft you just make too much money
you don't want to go down this road, somone will find a way arround it.

Originally Posted by [SIN]Ripper
So my question is I am using WinME and I want the most for gaming. XP has been so hyped up I have no idea what to believe. ME chews up most of my ram 128MB and trying to run unreal seems to be not a good idea. I am upgrading soon to 300MB or so but I want to get the most out of it. Will XP chew up more RAM then ME????What\'s the best in the long run.

Originally Posted by jorus

OK, I really dislike XP Pro (Build 2462.) As I have said before, the GUI sucks radically. Very childish. The colors are nasty too. \'BOOTWORTHY\' for lack of a better word.

The XP REGISTRATION scheme cannot actually be cracked but there is a nice workaround developed by two German guys. We have been working ar it for about a week now, will let you guys here know when it is completely successful. (Involves many steps)

I have 4 Win 2K Advanced Server Boxes and 2 Win 2K Pro only Boxes. Also, 3 XP Pro Boxes so far with more to come, and many other various and sundry dual boot Linux, Win 98, and W2K hyrids as well. (No matter) I have the IE 6 Betas, 6.0.2465.3 and 6.0.2403.0, individually installed in all of the W2K machines. There are no such registry registration key on any of the W2K boxes . Period.

The only reg keys that ever matched the Azonic imperiative are the ones on the experimental Terminal Services server. Those arrived normally after installing TS, seemingly nothing to do w/IE whatsoeveras far as I can tell. So, after installing TS, I fooled around w/it for a day or so (Slowed everything to a crawl) then formatted. C\'est la vie, a day in the life of the IT guy. They never came back to haunt me either, lol.

When the boys in Hong Kong get the XP Enterprise Edition in their hot little hands there will be thousands (Millions?) of those XPE CD critters worlwide. Again, the way of the world. Microsoft is just trying to stem the tide, at our XPense.

#71: wtf? It is/was well-known during the Office Suite Wars that the MS Office development was subsidised by the Windows licensing fees. Also, if it did require MS to charge $100/license for an OS, then why are they willing to:
1. Charge students less than $100 for a new license
2. Give OEMs different rates, most of them being quite a bit under $100
3. Have a sliding measure for OEM pricing as the different OEM's meet different criteria

I'm personally against paying more than $smallnum for an OS, as they're not, contrary to popular belief, all that difficult to build properly, as almost all the groundwork for it has been worked out in the last 20 or so years.

AG#89:
Thank you for such an insightful, thought-provoking, well-written post.
</sarcasm off>

I support M$ products for a living (contractor), and anything that increases the amount of time I may have to spend doing an install, is an added cost to my clients. Think they'll appreciate paying me 2-3 extra hours to sit on the phone so I can activate all the installations I just performed? They will have me purchase a single CD, & just pay M$ for the extra licenses. Prob is, most of them aren't large enuff to qualify for a "Enterprise license" class of CD, so it will still have that damn activation proggie on it.

#81 - not legal (DMCA, EULA, I'm sure hacking it would violate one or both), but at least moral -- after all, unless you provide the CD to someone else, you're not depriving MS of any revenue.

This is no different than the copy protection schemes from the early 80's. DOS was $35 and CPM was $249. PC's still didn't sell until Lotus 123 was released. That program made the PC necessary. You had to have an original disk in the A: floppy drive. This violated policy for government sales so even the goverment used "cracked versions". A debug routine changed the assembly code and the software ran fine. That didn't hurt Lotus' business. Bill Gates offered half of Microsoft's stock for Lotus during the 80's. When they wouldn't sell, he crushed them. Eventually, copy protection was removed due to customer demand.

Phillip Kahn is responsible for the software licensing scheme based on it being used like a book. Bill Gates hated that and has wanted to change it for years. He sees this as the chance to do so.

This will only affect the small business and average home user. The big corporations will get a copy without the protection. The rest of the world will switch to a different operating system or use hacked versions. In China, the world's largest market, the highly paid professionals make $1 a day. The rest of the people make less. How many will be paying $300 for an OS.

It is just like the drug industry. The small business US customers will subsidize the quarterly earnings. The HMO's get the drugs for far less than an individual can.

The only thing anyone can do is vote with his wallet. Nothing else matters.

Good luck!

Gerbil #88, if you wait until it's a problem, you've already lost. Gates will have eaten your lunch by then.

These are the big boys you're playing with -- you need all the advantages you can get.

Originally Posted by RAZO
All of you are LOSERS :)

running 2kpro (since beta2) and ie 6.00.2403 - no such keys

BOGUS article. use some grey matter. we will deal with XP registration issues when they become a problem.

RV
London Underground(!)

#86 - Actually, I have a computer that slow, an' I know many poor assholes like me who can't afford to keep upgrading, so we sit on the trailing edge. Admittedly, it's pretty unlikely I'll install XP (I have 96Mb of RAM - NT4 already chews up over a hundred after I load one application so God knows what XP's gonna be like!)
Since I only use Windows 95 for games and NT/Linux for everything else, XP seems like a pointless waste for me anyway (Woo! I can play games at a quarter of the speed, or have extra resource hogging background crap that I never use, or support for devices which I don't have! Yey!)

Out of interest tho, why does everybody want XP? What actual benefit will it give you? One of the reasons I stuck with 95 over 98 (apart from being a cheap sod :) is that 98 gives me absolutely nothing over 95 other than a slower OS and more wasted HD space (Win95 is ~100MB after installation, IE and various other junk has made my Windows directory ~350Mb. How big's yours?).
Admittedly I'm probably an extreme case sticking with 95, but how many people 'upgraded' from 98SE to ME *just* because ME was newer? AFAICS, ME has no advantages over 98SE unless you're a dumbass newbie/consumer type who doesn't know how to use a computer properly (this is probably me just being cynical tho')

#77 you are stupid. who has a computer that is that slow? i have a 1000mhz AMD thunderbird with 256 ram as my main pc. My backup pc has a pentium 3 550mhz and 128 ram. and my sisters comp has an AMD K6-2 450mhz with 192 ram. im sure a lot of people have a system with a pentium 3 or better nowadays. or even better, the best processor out right now, the AMD Thunderbird. w00t!

#76 you dont even know what full blown Windows 2000 is apparently. The XP in beta I have seen do not include dns, full iis, load balancing, or any of the other goodies.
Not to mention the UI is so butt ugly I dont want it on any of my servers.
As many have said XP is for workstations or home users only. The REAL Whistler's do not have a name yet.
I would suggest Win2k SP2, I have not seen any real improvements that warrant a new OS. Notice that the only new feature that anyone cares about, the whole .Net infrastructure has been shelved and MS is not saying a word about it.

WinXP users = WinME users

flux

#40: You said admins won't use XP? No! XP is just part of the Whistler family. XP is the official name for Whistler Home Edition and Whistler Professional. There is also Whistler Server and Whistler Advanced Server, which, both have not got an official name yet.

82 posts in and nobody has the experience to know that this story is just plain wrong. How sad. IE6 is not "laying any groundwork" (at least not by the evidence presented) here. These keys are not a reult of the IE6 install (nor do they appear in Windows XP Beta 2, or the latest iterim builds).

More than likely what has occured is that the system in question (the one that these keys appeared on) has connected to a Windows 2000 Server via MS Terminal Services or Citrix ICA. That will result in these keys appearing in the registry of any Win32 client OS (2000 Pro, NT4 WKS, 98*, 95*).

Never posted b4 but just want to add a quick comment about those people who are suggesting that cracking XP will hurt M$ ...

Do you REALLY think it will ? How well protected has M$ software been in the past ? It's most non-existent. Why ? Because they don't care about cracked installations, they just want you using their software. They don't five two hoots about some 15 year old geek running a cracked copy of XP. As long as their product is in use they have laid the foundations for THE FUTURE.

They make most of their money from OEM installations of OS's to hardware retailers and Office sold to companys. The fact that you have a cracked copy of one of their products (hooray !) means f**k all to them. They have much bigger fish to fry.

Originally Posted by ViPeR-7
One suggestion to everyone...

BUY Windows XP.
then Crack it

its perfectly legal to crack a program, its just not legal to make the crack. thats why game cracks are so widespread.

So, buy XP, then crack it so Microsoft (Microscope?) doesnt have its face in your computer

also, is it legal for microsoft to make a program that will use your internet connection to check its rego when you are online against your knowledge or consent?

isnt that like making calls on someone elses phone line?

Originally Posted by dissonance
Win95? Are you on crack?