Windows XP activation algorithm cracked

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

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!