Windows XP activation algorithm cracked

Discussion in 'Windows XP General Discussion' started by ClippyBeer, May 29, 2023.

  1. ClippyBeer

    UK-Tim

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    This business of windows XP "activation" seems to have passed me by, is it perhaps possible that if you use a Volume Licence Key (VLK) that "activation" isn't required?
     
    UK-Tim, Oct 5, 2023
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    As far as I know there are different XP versions for home users vs Volume Licence. I use for example XP 64 and it doesn't require activation at all. What I mean is that you can't use a VLK key on a Windows version that it's not VLK. It won't even accept it to install Windows.
     
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    Thanks Tekkaman,

    Re-reading the thread made me realise I was confusing "Genuine Advantage" with "Activation", and now you mention the different iso's I can now vaguely remember trying to convert non-VLK iso's to VLK, presumably because of the Activation problem. I also ran XP64 for a year or so (Which also didn't need activating) because I suspected I had some malware embedded in one of the apps I was running, and guessed it would have a problem running on XP64 and this seemed to be the case, but after more than a year I finally nailed the real problem down to a HDD that had started slowly increasing it's latency time from milliseconds too tens of seconds after a low level format, which I mistook for malware eating up clock cycles, the upshot being I'm now back on XP32.
     
    UK-Tim, Oct 6, 2023
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    Yeah, this was news to me. Of the hundreds of WinXP installs I've done over the years, I've never once used a non-VLK version. I completely forgot activation even existed lol!
     
    cleverscreenname, Nov 25, 2023
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