WinXp Activation Crack?

[Anonymous]

The Final release (so far) of Windows XP Professional, be it the corporate edition or not is build 2600.

[Anonymous]

Oh okay thanks. Lets hope this works.

[G.I.Joe]

ghost and drive image pro does not currput anything... i use it daily at work and at home on all OSs, including WinXP

[nonames]

You all should just try to find the Corporate edition of XP.

The serial number is all over the internet.

I highly doubt microsoft will go after individual users, it would be too expensive. They are after businesses who don\'t buy their stuff.

However, I wouldn\'t put intentional \"bugs\" in the O/S past them. Or spying on us either.

[Anonymous]

I have successfully installed an \'activated\' XP Home by using a hex editor to change about 8 bytes in winlogon.exe. This may have to be done on install, I never tried it after the first login... Already have valid CD key.

Instructions I found...

With a hexeditor edit a copy of winlogon.exe (c:windowssystem32winlogon.exe)
Change position 39662h (or 39660h sometimes)
8B D1 57 33 C0 .....
with these bytes
C7 06 01 00 00 00 83 EE 04 C3

Save and then replace the original winlogon.exe with the newone.
Must be replaced at
c:windowssystem32 and c:windowssystem32dllcache

Boot from a 98 startup disk to change files.

I used a hex editor free from http://www.durward.com/hextool/index.html

Tried move clock forward 1 year, also added 2 hdds, moved CDrom, no probs. Good luck.

[Blind Guardian]

I can´t find the Activation Required key value

[Anonymous]

This is a reply to DennisP\'s post @ 02/10/02 02:01 PM.

You are\'nt buying a copy of windows itself as in the program you\'re actually paying for a LICENSE to use the software on X number of machines depending on the amount of LICENSES you buy.

I think it said u can run xp on 1 home computer and 1 laptop but I could be wrong.

[trefton1]

I to have the same problem 480mb  plus exe file that I cannot expand

[Anonymous]

Doesn\'\'t work !!

Can\'t find the Activation Required in the regs

WKR>

[Anonymous]

I had an activated copy of Windows XP Home on my pc(Legal version) that was activated.  I wanted to put a copy of another pc.

This second pc was completly different specs to the first one.  Different board, cpu, hard disk, video, sound, nic.

So, I took the hard disk from the second pc and installed it as a slave on the first pc.

I copied everything from the first hard disk to the second.  I removed the second hard disk and put it back in the second pc.

After booting up I got a BSOD, which considering I was using different hardware was pretty obvious.  

So, I booted using the xp cd, chose the recover option from the boot up menu.  XP repaired itself and started fine.

But it didn\'t prompt to be re-activated.  

I have no idea if this will work for anyone else, but could be worth a try.

[Anonymous]

Ghosting XP works fine if you use Ghost 6.5  for NT/W2K :-))

[Anonymous]

if you don\'t want product activation go get a dell copy of the windows xp cd from someone. the boot sectors do something to windows xp setup and product activation gets disabled according to one of their documents.

[Anonymous]

hmmmm
I have also been trying to get around xp and its crap but have been unsucceful.

Someone needs to shoot bill gates and his crappy produces.

If you want a real OS get Linux.
Suse Linux is nice

[MyST]

There is away around the Activation and getting another Key code

It is very easy and requires a simple phone call.

If you are installing xp to a another computer and need another
key code call up microsoft and say that you installed a new hard drive and i activated xp on the other disk. Act very stupid and
they should buy it.

hehe
Better yet just get Linux it is much better then the crap on XP

[Anonymous]

What if you are not familiar with a hex editor...?  I played around with one last night and was totally unsuccessful.  More confused than anything.  I could not find that string listed... Can anyone offer any help???

[Anonymous]

I\'m not so sure about this editing of the winlogon.  I took my winlogon and edited it exactly as described in fireballs post.  Then I copied it to a floppy.  I then did a fresh install and booted with my win98 startup disk for the the very first startup.
I replaced both winlogon files as told then rebooted.  I assumed that at worst I was going to set my clock forward to test it and end up with never ending logon screen, which I got once before with a totally different crack.  Anyway it was worse.  When it made it to logon  screen it just rebooted my sytem violently. I talking violently.  It made my hard drive even stop spinning for at leat 5 seconds.  I tried rebooting 2 more times and it kept doing it until I replaced the winlogons back to the originals.  I did not screw up on the editing either.  I triple checked it.  However my Windows XP is Windows XP Pro Ver. 2002 .  It says 2002 on the box.  Could that possibly be newer than the ones you guys are using and maybe microsoft caught on and made it harder for Ver. 2002.

[Anonymous]

You know, it\'s kinda like stealing water from a fire hose with a soda straw...it\'s not really going to be noticed...one little guy in bum f&*k nowhere isn\'t really Microsoft\'s concern.  It would cost FAR more money to track you down and far too much in legal fees to really make it worth while...

Now, were you selling bootleg copies, I\'d worry..but come on, just how many people do you think are doing this, and just how much time and effort do you *really* think MS is going to put into bothering one little \"no one\" ?

When was the last time you saw the headline on CNN \"Joe Sixpack jailed for illegally installing Windows 98! Film at 11:00\"

Face it, if they went after every one that had a illegal copy of a Mircosoft operating system, there\'d be no room in jail anymore for anyone!!!!

Peace.

[Anonymous]

If you\'re comfortable with hex editing, that would be the BEST way to do it.

Here is how to crack your own version of XP, this is known as the \"Hunter\" method, named after the person who found
this important section inside the winlogon.exe file.
I have personally tried this on several versions of Pro and Home and have verified that it does indeed work.

Here is how it\'s done, you need a good Hex editor.
Take a copy of your winlogon.exe file and open it up with a good hex editor like ultra edit.
Go to this address: 00039660h
Look for this string:
8B D1 57 33 C0 89 02 89 42 08
And change it to this:
C7 06 01 00 00 00 83 EE 04 C3

Reboot into safe mode and change your view settings to show all files, also uncheck the option

 \"hide protected system files\".

Go to these two places and rename the existing winlogon.exe to winlogon.old, and put a copy of your
modified file in it\'s place.
C:WindowsSystem32Dllcache
C:windowsSystem32
(Replace \"C\" with your correct drive if necessary).

Boot back into normal Windows and bang, your system is activated

[Anonymous]

This did not work for me...
I tried 3 different methods.
Needless to say, I\'m still looking for a working way to get around the activation.

Does anyone know how to fix

[Anonymous]

AGAIN.... DOES NOT WORK!!!!!!