My winxp has been locked by microsoft, :-<

[JMI]

And some of us actually have a legitimate key that doesn't need changing. Sometimes one can even talk M$ into giving a "real" key.

And gabri3l, the thread on ieXbeta may have been "started" on May 23, 2004, but the list they show there (as seen above) was posted by qapman on July 15, 2004 with a clickable link to the Worz.net page that was posted on July 14th. Credit should go where credit is due and if c4p0ne got it from there, or some other place, credit for the source should be mentioned. One would assume even Worz.net got it somewhere.


Regards,

[gabri3l]

I was looking at this thread. hxxp://board.iexbeta.com/ibf10/index.php?showtopic=43587 But you raise an interesting point. I wonder where the list came from in the first place.

[JMI]

gabri3l: You are indeed correct about your earlier statement that ieXbeta seems to have had "the list" first. I just did a quick search and found this thread:

http://board.iexbeta.com/ibf10/index.php?showtopic=42017

but your thread there IS clearly earlier than this one and earlier that Worz.net's list. Bonus points for you.

But we both remain with the question: "Who discovered the list?" My supicion is that it is actually in the code for the SP2 update and some clever cracker managed to extract it from there. But until somebody tell, we won't know.

Regards,

[c4p0ne]

Well actually, (and obviously) I don't deserve credit for the above posted list. Actually, I never ask for (and usually TRY not to imply) credit for anything that I post in any of the dosen or so forums I am registered with. However, just for the record someone on IRC (irc.efnet.net) gave me the list by the name of n1n0r so I guess I should have mentioned that. Since probably no one knows who that guy is I figured "wtf" i'll just post it for the convenience of anyone who may have not known or who required it.

[JMI]

No actual criticism was intended by my comments. I was just generally teasing about the similiar post on Worz.net in close proximity to your's here and then gabri3l reported a sighting before Worz posted it.

We then just speculated on who may have actually made the discovery, and you had not said, one way or the other, so we didn't know whether you made the discovery or found it some place, but hadn't said. No biggie.

Regards,

[gabri3l]

Yes, please do not think I was being a smartass. You just sparked our curiosity over the origination of the list.

[c4p0ne]

Hey what if one has a key like: XXXXX-OEM-0044283-XXXXX ? Is it possible to generate with what we have?

I mean for instance, one has a 100% legit Copy of Windows XP Pro on the original CD even for good measure . The user installs this copy once, twice, OOOPS! Third time's a charm meaning Windows demands activation because as we've discussed, either things have changed "inside" the PC, or the copy has been installed "too many times during a predefined period of M$ time". Now what. Does there exist the possiblity to actually activate the damn thing with a key created by the 4in1 keygen (a key that falls completely out of the banned range)?

I highly doubt that myself (unfortunately) so then the question would be, if Windows is already asking for activation, is it possible (without physical patching of exe's) to make it believe it's been activated. As I said I've tried dosens of keys (VLK and other) generated by the 4in1 that simply wont "stick" when that update button is pressed on the windows activation dialog... All you get is "retry, retry, retry, etc.."

Perhaps I'm not generating VLK's that fall out of the banned range the right way (doubt that too) but oh well, worse comes to worst by the time this joint expires I'll have final version of Fedora to put back on this little laptop. The only reason I took Fedora off actually is cause I absolutely could not get dial-up working but fuck that who needs dial up I just take this little jammy to work and pop it on the big line.