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What Kind of Sense Does Phone-Only XP Activation Make? | 49 comments (49 topical) | Post A Comment
Re: XP activation[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#2)
by Ed Foster on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 02:26:17 AM PDT

Interesting. So let me ask you, do you actually know something about how the XP activation system works, rather than how the MS mouthpieces say it works?

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No need to know the internals[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#6)
by LasVegan on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 10:26:03 AM PDT

When I had to call in because of too many on-line activations they knew how many times my license key had been activated. That means they have some way of deriving the license key from the #'s you give them.

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Link to info[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#9)
by Jarulf on Sat Feb 26, 2005 at 11:19:33 PM PDT

http://www.win2kwereld.nl/main/WindowsXP/Inside%20Windows%20Product%20Activat/inside%20windows%20pro duct%20activat.shtml

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This is quite good[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#34)
by Anonymous User on Wed Mar 02, 2005 at 10:42:50 AM PDT

This is a really good white paper on the workings of the activation process.

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Activation[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#35)
by Anonymous User on Wed Mar 02, 2005 at 04:23:42 PM PDT

Really, how did you get the link to work? I just get a 404 error.

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Re: Activation[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#36)
by foxyshadis1 on Wed Mar 02, 2005 at 07:48:18 PM PDT

remove the space in 'pro duct' (the textbox entry might have cut it off, or the poster thought it had to be cut manually)

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