Microsoft's latest

Post by **Leisher** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:27 am

anti-piracy attempt.

I honestly don't think this is that bad.

It's certainly a lot better than how the RIAA is trying to fight piracy.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 12:21 pm

I wonder if this will pick up a legit copy, but with a generated key.

Not that it would concern me, per se...

Post by **Troy** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:34 pm

Or for that matter, a corporate copy, used on all of ones homemade computers...

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Post by **GORDON** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 12:39 pm

Or for that matter, a corporate copy, used on all of ones homemade computers...

If I were going to do something like that, that's what I would have done.

On 3 computers in my house.

If I were going to do that.

And I'd use a keygen so I'd have unique keys on each.

Hypothetically.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:24 pm

Wonder how that would work... hypothetically. Or on 5 machines?

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Post by **GORDON** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:27 pm

Wonder how that would work... hypothetically. Or on 5 machines?

My guess is that 5 will work the same as 3, hypothetically.

When does this new system go into effect? Then those who are doing such things will know the answer, hypothetically.

I also found this little nugget of wisdom:

Microsoft only wanted to stop the "casual pirater" considering every version of windows is already cracked. Not to sound like a mad pirate but to disable the activation is sadly VERY easy.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Cu rrentVersion\WPAEvents

That's frickin it ... the "Activate me crap" dies ... and for all you tinfoil hats you don't need to reg your Windows XP. You think MS would of made it so easy if they didn't want people to pirate there OS. They would of made it so if some file isn't downloaded from there (encrypted of some kind) the OS simply won't work etc etc. No ... it's some silly regestry hack that takes less then 2 minutes to do and lasts the lifetime of the product. I know that the activation thing I mentioned above works in Windows XP MCE and Windows XP x64, im not sure about XP Pro ... if someone tries and has luck I wouldn't mind knowing.

Zetleft · Post by **Zetleft** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:20 pm

Hell I just downloaded a corporate version which never even asks you to register it.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:14 pm

Hell I just downloaded a corporate version which never even asks you to register it.

Uh, hypothetically, right?

Zetleft · Post by **Zetleft** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:31 am

Of course, it was for testing purposes and only after I went to my local (insert closest software outlet) and bought my damn fine copy of Microsoft Professional from one of the courteous employees of said establishment.

Post by **Troy** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:04 am

From now on, all my posts will end with Hypothetically.

Hypothetically speaking of couse

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:47 pm

I wonder if anyone has tried any of these hypthetical situations?

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:11 pm

I can neither confirm nor deny anything without councel present.

Post by **GORDON** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:50 pm

Here's another little sum'pm sum'pm that I found:

Thursday, July 28, 2005
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."

Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

It turns off the trigger for the key check.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 5:30 pm

Method 2

For XP SP2 (repost of something someone else posted):

1. After you have installed the new Windows Genuine Advantage ActiveX control in Internet Explorer select "Tools", "Manage Add-ons".

2. This will bring up the Manage Add-Ons window to allow you to enable or disable any installed module. You have two options to view the modules: Add-ons that currently loaded by Internet Explorer and Add-ons that have been used by Internet Explorer. Select which ever one lists "Windows Genuine Advantage".

3. Click on "Windows Genuine Advantage" to select it and then click Disable. This will allow you to fully access Windows Update without Microsoft invading your privacy.

Note: Once Windows Genuine Advantage is installed, you'll prolly have to re-start IE and go back to windowsupdate.com to disable it. (Then re-start IE again so that WGA will be gone)

Post by **TheCatt** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:28 pm

Another hypothetical work around.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:56 pm

Here's another little sum'pm sum'pm that I found:

Thursday, July 28, 2005
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."

Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

It turns off the trigger for the key check.

This works, and is just as simple as it seems.

Post by **GORDON** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:02 pm

Here's another little sum'pm sum'pm that I found:

Thursday, July 28, 2005
Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'
AV sez, "This week, Microsoft started requiring users to verifiy their serial number before using Windows Update. This effort to force users to either buy XP or tell them where you got the illegal copy is called 'Genuine Advantage.' It was cracked within 24 hours."

Before pressing 'Custom' or 'Express' buttons paste this text to the address bar and press enter:

javascript:void(window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all')

It turns off the trigger for the key check.
This works, and is just as simple as it seems.

Theoretically.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:32 pm

The old tricks no longer work for disabling Windows Genuine Advantage.

Anyone know new tricks?

Post by **TPRJones** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 10:41 pm

I just told it no whenever it came up on the updates. Seems to work so far.

Post by **GORDON** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:36 pm

Well, assume we're past that point.