Windows Xp Activation Wpa Kill Vista
If you are planning on doing a clean install of Windows on your PC, you will more than likely have to reactivate Windows, either online or over the phone. Normally, the online reactivation will work just fine as long as the hardware on your computer hasn’t changed very much since the OS was originally installed and the version of Windows is exactly the same as the version that shipped with the computer.
With WPA kill I can not pass a validation check for WMP11, can anyone help? I have never had to crack the activation for Windows XP because I have a VLK. The Windows Vista Developer Activation is the 'post-SP1 Vista. One new feature in Windows XP that has caused great concern is Windows Product Activation (WPA). There are a great many rumors, and much misinformation, from which you might be led to think that WPA is going to call Microsoft every day and say just what you are doing with your computer; that, if you make any changes at all to your computer.
If you have swapped out hard drives, graphics cards, memory, etc over time, then you might run into problems when you try to reactivate Windows online using the same product key. In these cases, you will have to call Microsoft and do an over the phone activation. If the hardware hasn’t changed too much, you can make a backup of the information that Windows uses to ensure your copy is valid and then restore it after the reinstall, which I explain below using a freeware program. Download Recovery Media If the computer came installed with an OEM version of Windows and you perform a clean install with a retail version of Windows, it also won’t activate online.
Previously, new PCs came with an OEM DVD that allowed you to reinstall Windows, but in the last few years most PCs now have a separate recovery partition that lets you restore directly from the hard drive. You shouldn’t have any problem activating Windows if you restore this way. If you don’t have the DVD or recovery drive, you can either call Microsoft and try to activate by phone or you can directly download the ISO image files from Microsoft, but you will definitely need to have the product key from the COA sticker on the computer. In order to, you have to enter a valid product key before it will let you download the ISO file. For Windows 8.1, you are not required to provide a product key for the download.
You can get the Windows 8.1 ISO from the page on Microsoft’s website. It’s worth noting that for years you could download Windows 7 ISO images from DigitalRiver, an official distributor of Microsoft software. However, those have all been taken down and no longer work.
Your only legal sources are the links above from Microsoft. Another item to note is that if your computer has Windows 8, the key won’t be able to activate Windows 8.1. The same is true if you have a Windows 8.1 key and are trying to activate Windows 8. If you need a Windows 8 ISO image, then check out the page.
Here you enter your product key and it will download the correct ISO image that can be activated for that specific key. Windows XP In Windows XP, you can avoid having to reactivate by simply copying a file from your Windows directory and saving it external media. When Windows XP is first activated, it creates a file called WPA.DBL and stores it in the C: Windows System32 directory. Copy this file to your external storage device and keep it handy. When you go to reinstall Windows, you’ll reach the point where you have to activate.
Decline the activation and complete the installation. Now you’ll need to restart your computer in Safe Mode by pressing F8 on startup to get into the Advanced Boot Options menu.
Go to C: Windows System32 and you should see a file called WPA.DBL already there. Simply rename it to something like WPA.OLD and then copy your backup version of WPA.DBL to the current location. Restart the computer and Windows XP should now be activated and working normally.
Remember that this will only work if you use the WPA.DBL file from the same computer that Windows XP was originally activated on. If you install XP on a different machine and try to copy the WPA.DBL file there, it won’t activate. Windows Vista, 7, 8 If you are running Windows Vista, 7 or higher, you won’t be able to simply copy one file in order to avoid the activation problem. There is a lot more information that is required, which makes it a lot more complicated. Luckily, there is a freeware program called that will make a copy of all the activation data for you and allow you to easily restore it later on. Once you download it and unzip the files, go ahead and run the executable file.
It doesn’t require any installation, so that’s nice. On the main screen, it will start detecting any valid Windows and Office products. If all works out well, the status should detect your version of Windows and it should display the product key along with the license status. To backup the data, just click the Activation Backup button. A fairly large dialog will pop up that basically explains all the features and the requirements in order for the activation to properly work. Make sure you read it carefully. The main points here are what I had already mentioned above: don’t make major hardware changes when performing the restore and make sure the OS edition is the same.
Go ahead and click Yes and the backup will be created in a new folder called Windows Activation Backup, located in the same folder as the EXE file. You’ll want to make sure to copy this folder to some external media before you reinstall Windows. Once you have loaded Windows, simply download and run the program again. Make sure to copy the backup folder into the same folder as the EXE file.
The program will detect the backup folder and the button will change to Activation Restore. Click on that and when it asks you if you are sure, click Yes. Wait about a minute or so and if the program succeeds, you will get a Success message. At this point, you should be good to go with an activated copy of Windows. Note that if you Microsoft Office installed also, you can click the Office Activation Backup button and it will allow you to back that data up separately. The only issue with Advanced Tokens Manager is that it does not fully support Windows 8.1.
It can save all the activation data, but it can only restore activation for Windows 8.1 copies that were activated by phone. If activated online, it won’t be able to restore properly. The developers say they are in the process of trying to figure this out, but there has been no update to the program September 2013, so that’s not a good sign. Either way, it works well for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. If you have any questions, post a comment.
Microsoft has a neat little way to prevent software piracy of their Windows operating system. 'Windows Genuine Advantage'edit: I stand corrected, it has nothing to do with WGA with its 'Product Activation' requirement. Essentially, even with a valid product key, you still need to activate your Windows to ensure that only one computer is using that specific product key.
If you can't activate your Windows, there being many reasons for this, you are left with a 30 day grace period to change your product key to one that is fully valid or get in contact with Microsoft and plea your case. Once your grace period is up, Windows refuses to let you login anymore. You cannot access your files. You cannot go on the Internet.
You cannot do anything, except the thrill of trying to activate Windows. Well, luckily for me I do not have to worry about this issues, as my Windows is valid and activated. However, for those who do not and have been so unfortunate enough to have their Windows expire on them, I present to you a bit of relief. How to gain access to your files on an expired Windows, with even enough functionality to surf the web, talk on MSN Messenger, and load up most of your applications. It doesn't give you full functionality of Windows, but it will be enough to get the job done until you can find the time to activate your Windows.
Best of all though, it's all very simple and easy to do!!! First, turn on your computer and wait until you get to the Windows login screen.
Next, click to login as usual. You should get an error from Windows telling you that your Windows has expired and is asking whether you would like to activate Windows now. A 'Let's activate Windows' window will appear. Let's minimize it. DO NOT close it.
Now, hold down the Windows Key on your keyboard while you also press the 'U' key. This will open up the Narrator program to help assist those with poor vision. It is this program that will help us login to our Windows. Click the little computer icon in the top left hand side of the Narrator window. A drop down menu should appear. The last option in this menu is named 'About Narrator.' This should open up another window called 'About Narrator'.
In this window, there should be the text ' Microsoft Web site'. Click it, as it is a link and will open up your Internet Explorer, taking you to the Microsoft Accessibility website. Internet access! As if Internet was not enough, in the address bar of Internet Explorer, type 'c: '. This should display all your hard drive contents on drive 'C'. From there you can load navigate your way around your computer, loading specific programs, and most whatever else.
Some common directories as to where you can find personal files and programs are: C: program files C: documents and settings username Desktop C: documents and settings username Documents C: documents and settings username Start Menu Programs On a side note, certain programs cannot be opened while Windows is still not activated. You will also not have a Task Bar at the bottom of your screen, as trying to open it will just result in it shutting itself down a few moments later. MSN Messenger works though, as well as most other non-Windows-based components.
Disclaimer: I do not applaud piracy, but I do feel people should have access to their personal files, regardless of whether Windows has expired or not. This tutorial should not be used to bypass Windows Activation, nor does it restore full Windows functionality, but I provide it to those who are in desperate need of accessing files that are suddenly lost to them through the Microsoft Genuine Advantage activation system. Update: some say it works even better with Vista, as the explorer.exe does not close shortly after you try to open it as it does in XP. Anonymous said. I don't know what You don't like in this software. Or maybe You have heard, that 'greatest hackers' use Unix and Linux and You decided to rot on Microsoft.
I have never see Operating system, which does not have any problems. The same matters about the software products.
If everything was perfect there would not be new product versions. I can't understand people who rot on some software product. If You don't like it don't use it or write one yourself and prove us how stable You can make it!!!
Anonymous said. THIS TACTIC IS STUPID, THERE IS AN EASIER AND BETTER WAY! I know this works on Vista. If the system won;t let you log on because your key is expired, simply choose, 'Activate with a new key from Microsoft'. That will launch a web browser. Then type in c: windows explorer.exe and hit enter.
Windows will fully load up (explorer is the shell, the interface)! You will get the task bar, desktop, everything. Just don't close the activation window, or else the system will reboot. Here is another tactic you can try once you are in Windows to get rid of the activation box without rebooting. I haven't tried this, but after you are into windows, go to services.ms c and TURN OFF the windows activation service. Then go to task manager and kill the activation window PID.
P.S.:TUX is the man MS is SOO stupid. If you want to download updates from MS website, go to the validation screen. Once there, turn of Scripting and Active X controls, and pick validate windows. It will take you to the update screen where you can update you computer.
I HONESTLY think the developers at MS let these tricks work on purpose. I mean, NO COMPANY could be THIS stupid. Anonymous said. How did an article that is unrelated to Operating System choice become a barrage of Linux fanboys touting the merits of their superior OS? I am sure that in the Linux forums, if you got a response to a Linux article or problem of: 'Well, just switch to Windows' you would regard this as unintelligent and not adding anything to the conversation. Stop trolling if you don't have an intelligent comment.
I applaud the author of this tip for pointing out a clever way to solve a problem that some Windows users may run across. Anonymous said. To all you linux users, the reason we use windows is because it's simple (except from when it goes wrong). What we should have done is tell Microsoft to fuck off in 95 and stick to 3.1 or 3.11.
That would have solved the stability and the activation problems. On the day of the release of vista, I got a chance to use it and honestly I find it crap.
It appears to have taken the worst of windows (it's good old stability!!!), the complicatedness of linux and the interface from OSX. The price is outrageous, and ontop, you have to buy office at about the same price (there go the month's wages to our good old friend BILL). Linux is pointlessly complicated and I can't see people using it much (it took me a week to install a driver when I had the instruction booklet). PS: It's a great article.:). Anonymous said. After installing Xp only less than a week ago you can imagine my horror when the Activate Windows now prompt appeared at windows startup. Last time I used my PC I had been messing around with setting the date a couple of years back in order to register an old graphics program.
I just finished installing all development software and copying all my data to new system so a reinstall of XP is not an option until I can copy my data to an external drive. Looks like I will be using Knopix to hopefully copy data to external drive and then reinstalling XP or waiting on the phone for days. Anonymous said. This is not a forum to discuss if Linux is better than Windows, it is to help those with an expired Windows password.
Great info from Steve, I learned a few things from you. You may have to start in safe mode or Steve’s suggestion may work a) Magical Jelly Bean Version 1.41 allows you to change the windows key b) Windows XP Product Activation Hack! WinXP.Activation.V1.1English.rar (661 KB). You will asked to insert a Windows XP disk to copy the required files from. C) Interesting article about window keys and how to manipulate them. OK, since I live inside a volcano on top of a mountain in a third world country and can’t post attachments what I have decided to do is to e-mail these programs to a bogus Hotmail account which you can then access / forward / copy or save the programs from. The account is novicetraveler@hotmail.com and the password is zxcvbnm.
The text file contains several thousand somewhat legitimate XP SP2 serials / keys, try to use the one of these serials in conjunction with the magical jelly bean finder. If you found my input useful let me know, I’m trying to sort out a friends computer half way around the world. Now there’s some USEFUL info, unlike “change to Linux” - Bahhhhhh. Anonymous said.
One other solution which might work will be to reinstall windows using the repair option which comes up after the End User Agreement screen. If you do not have a Win XP SP2 disk, borrow one and use one of the 3000 plus almost legitimate serials that I left as an attachment on the bogus novicetraveler@hotmail.com account (password zxcvbnm). To reinstall windows, start the computer and you will be given an option to boot from CD by pressing any key. If this message does not come up you need to enter setup (F2 on some computers, DEL on others and F10 on Compaq) and set the boot sequence so it boots from the CD first. Once you boot from the CD it is straight forward, ignore the Repair Console option and choose the Repair Option that comes up after end user Agreement. If you get a screen that talks about file systems FAT - NTFS do not go ant farther, BAIL!!! Once Windows has reinstalled you will be given the option to Turn Off Automatic Updates, TURN THEM OFF!!!
You will be asked if you want to register – answer NO!!! UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE. This is for those of you with an expired Windows XP SP2. If you ever read the article, you may have noticed that holding down the Windows and 'U' keys together doesn't work with XP2, so it seems that you can't use the Internet Explorer trick.
Don't panic, it's possible to do it, but in a different way. Yesterday night, my Windows XP SP2 expired, so I was unable to log in. There are two things that can be done: 1) Reboot the computer and start Windows in safe mode with command prompt. By this time, you should have the cracks or whatever you're going to use to crack Windows available, since in in safe mode with command prompt you don't have network access, so no Internet will be available.
If you need Internet access you can start with method #2 and then try safe mode again. Once in safe mode, you only see the command prompt. Type 'explorer' and press Enter. Now you have desktop, taskbar, system tray and anything you like, so you can browse to a Windows Activation hack tool or whatever.
If you need a crack, I've just attached one to one new email at the hotmail account novicetraveler@hotmail.com account (password zxcvbnm) 2) The first thing I tried was the well-known Windows + 'U' trick, but it didn't work. I tried anything similar (Windows + 'E' and s on) but nothing worked. I was desperate, until I tried with Windows + 'U' + Ctrl + Alt + Del (5 keys, incredible).
Surprinsingly enough, it worked and directly opened an Internet Explorer Window. Since Windows had booted normally, I had Internet access, which is a plus. Now comes the harder and tricky part. According to the old Windows + 'U' trick, you could just browse to 'c: windows' and run explorer.exe to keep working on your expired Windows or open any other application. Well, this doesn't work either, since now Windows says you don't have enough permissions or something like that (my Windows is in Spanish, so I don't know the English error message).
But, as always with Microsoft software, there's a workaround. If you right click on the application you want to run and choose 'Run as' you can tell Windows to run it as Administrator, entering the Aministrator's password, and voila!, the application starts without complaining about permissions of whatever. As far as I have tried, this doesn't work with explorer.exe or taskman.exe, so it seems like it doesn't work system utilities, but for me it worked with Notepad, Wordpad, WinRAR, OpenOffice and even Outlook Express and eMule. The only annoying thing is that you must know where every executable you may need is installed. Now, since you'll also have usb support, you can plug in an usb memory stick with a cracking utility and remove the activation.
Try the crack I mentioned in point 1). Works like a charm. Phil Collins said. Im trying this now and so far im in with firefox open, but thats not really that much use if i want to copy all my files to disks.
But heres a few tips ive found, open an image in your browser or select some text, right click and click send to, or something similar, this gets you into outlook express and word if you have these, from here you can get into VB, i also found if you browse the pictures from say clipart, you can right click and click explore on things like my documents, this also fully restores the system, however it logs you out after about a minute. So heres the ultimate solution for getting past this. Boot your pc, twat F8 or del on some pcs, whatever your key is to get into the BIOS, then set the date back. Ive used this method for about a year, works like a charm, until now and its finally caught up with me. Now its just a case of finding the right date again, or hacking my way in the system. Anonymous said.
Some of this may require you do a bit of research. Boot to command prompt and replace (rename the old one for saftey) C: windwos system32 winlogon.exe with a good copy (you will have to find one.) Add a reg key by creating a text file, adding the following lines and renaming it whatever.reg: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion WPAEvents 'OOBETimer'=hex:7f,63,3e,be,ec,25,8e,19,be,a7,92,c6 Use the following command, pointing it towards your created file. Reg import whatever.reg reboot.
Thank you so much! I have literally been bawling my eyes out for the past 4 hours because I couldn't get into my computer and get my paper, which is due tomorrow! I just bought my comp used and this was my first time using XP- and I didn't know what the activation thing was so I just kept Xing out of it.
Until it expired yesterday and I couldnt get into my computer! But when I tried to activate it, it said I don't have a valid product. I tried talking to them on the phone and told them what happened and that I bought it used but they just said basically too bad. I'm a broke college student too and there's no way I'm shelling out the cash for another XP disk!! Thanks for the life-saving trick! Anonymous said.
Hi Everyone.I recently bought a laptop from a friend of a friend and my daughter accidentally deleted something so I ran a system restore. The power went out in the middle of the restore so then I had to do a repair. My hubby finished the repair for me but in doing so he did not run the setup for internet.he just skipped it.so now its asking to activate windows and I can't configure my wireless connection at all. I haven't bought a router yet and tried to connect it through my dsl but no luck.I'm new at this stuff so any input would be greatly appreciated. Battlesnake said.
I used Linux for a while (Ubuntu, and Fedora 8). While they are very fast, and have similar programs (if not better) to replace most of the ones I used before (Ardour, OpenOffice, GAIM, etc), it has inferior hardware support, and there are lots of little annoying bugs, particulally in Fedora 8.
For example, when I try to install Synaptics, it complains about packages missing. Why can't yum just download them, or can't they be included in the distro/software. Also, although Linux doesnt crash as much, when it does, it doesnt recover as well. I suspended my system, and it wouldnt resume (Linux doesnt seem to like my APM, whereas windows and my home-made DSP operating system both work fine wih it), and when I rebooted, GNOME wouldn't work. I can use KDE effectively, but I prefer GNOME.
I also keep getting access denied messages, when I try to mount or write to my FAT partitions, with no hint in the documentation as to resolving these (besides using 'root' as a user account). As for removing the WGA and activation stuff from XP, theres a few DLLs you can replace with dummies, and a few registry entries to delete, then you can just log-on normally, as if it had been activated.
I found this, as I tried to activate, and couldn't get through to the MS servers (tried via broadband and dialup), so I ran a linux boot CD with NTFS support and a text web-browser, got instructions for WGA removal off the net, and applied them. Works a treat. Incidentally, I'm soon to be moving over to a mac though - its got the performance and robustness of Linux (both based on Unix), but with extensive beta testing too - so less annoying little bugs and inconveniances. Hmm, I just eXPerienced this weird (I think) eXPerience. Let's make it short. I used my previously activated XP HOME OEM product key (about 5 months old) for a fresh installation in my new laptop.
I couldn't get activated the new machine with this key, of course. So i let it as is for the whole 30 days, and just expected, the THING locked my access to the system, just this morning.
And then it came to my mind, what if I try to put in a new product key, and activate it? So I googled around and found a bunch of product keys. I didn't need any software to change my key, because the last time I tried to activate using the old key and failed, it prompted me to enter a new product key. So I clicked YES on the 'would you like to activate now' (or whatever it said, I didn't bother record it) dialog box, and expecting the same 'your product key has reached the limit bla bla bla' (whatever) as I eXPerienced 30 days ago. And the result was a shock!
'your product have been successfully activated' (or whatever)!!!!! And now I have two fully functional win XP home, with exactly the same product key!!!
While I wrote this, I'm updating my windows (89 updates!!) without any WGA hassle. Someone tell me please how can this be possible??? Anonymous said. I'm trying to use parallels transporter to copy my old pc onto my new mac and it worked fine until. A friend of mine ran into the problem, and I could help him (as a computer profesinal that I am), so now I know one more trick. And you Linux fans.
You keep on reminding us to switch to Linux. As if that is going to switch us to a better life, or less problems while working. I used linux, enough to connect a printer, install graphic driver (that took me only 2 days woooho), printing takes you a few hours to set up, if you wish to set up printing in another room, take another week to find the drivers and arrange the Samba server to operate with windows security. Try installing a USB GSM HSDPA device on your laptop equipped with Linux, like that on a Asus EEE PC, you can throw it away because no way you will ever find drivers for that. You can install open office on linux, thats great. Now, what happend when someone sends you a.docx or.xlsx file, from the newest office applications.
What, you send back a message saying, sorry send it again so it is compatible with our office system (well that might work anyway). And again there are specific programs that I use on windows, and those programs are the one bringing me paychecks, that is why I prefer windows. I dont have the time installing graphic card drivers on 200 different computers, but I now how to do it if I wish to spend a lot of time, it does give you a lot more freedom and there is a lot of software, and I will support linux where I can, but from my point of view it's another thing to waste time on before getting results you aim for. So stop trashing and rambling about switching to a 'better' OS, whatever works for you, and whatever brings the results and money is the best choice.
Every OS has its advantages and drawbacks, the one that get you the results is the right one. Anything else you have to say about it is just plain old bullshitting and you didnt bring any insights into the topic. And you should be castrated. The regards go the author of this text as he enabled us to learn a new trick that could come in handy in some situations, and it did now. Kockyhardrockr said. This isn't tested on more than my computer but thanks to your help i was able to navigate to a file browser eventually and cause an error WHERE YOU CAN ACCESS THE DESKTOP AND EVERYTHING JUST AS YOUR LOGGED ON for a short period of time. Taskbar and all.
Because i went into the help section and tested all my internet connections their active. Windows just wont let me register over the lan. So im just gonna go old school and use the modem. K first, use his procedure. Then click help on narrator. In help go to options and click internet options.
Go to content tab and click certificates. Go to import. Go up one level, and then right click my documents. Click expand and there should be an error.:) move quickly. It will fix itself. Anonymous said.
Its a good article for a quick fix to copy files. I agree with your reasoning of allowing people to get their files after not activating, however, this would generally only be people that pirated the software and can not activate, stuff them. And of course, why is it linux users have nothing better to do than promote it duirng windows conversations/articles. Also where does the 'linnux' pronunciation from from, wasnt it named after Linus Torvalds? And before anyway says it pronounced like it ends in unix, no, no its not.
If that was how it was meant, that is how it would be spelled. Anonymous said. At the moment I'm using this narrator thing to access a web browser. I use the open file option and go to my cddrive, right click it and hit open then it gives me an error message which in returns gives me a few seconds of desktop.
My situation goes like this, I use a dell dimensions 8200 from 02, replaced the HD a month ago and didn't have the OS disks anymore. So I used a Emachines backup OS disc someone in my house had. Install went fine, yet I still got the 30 day activation period thing and when I went to try to activate it never worked. So I tried that registry fix a few days before it expired which just got rid of the counter and didn't do anything overall.
I'm still technically locked out of windows, with the exception of the work around I mentioned. Though now when I go to hit 'yes' on activate now.I get the pop up that says windows is already activated yet when I hit ok it brings me to the log in screen. My questions are. Is there a way to delete, remove, disable the activation process overall. 2.Is it true I can't reinstall a OS on this after I used an Emachines backup OS disc? Any help would rule, I don't mind doing things through the narrator but it's annoying.
Unixadmin@aa.com said. What I don't understand about Microsoft is how such complicated, and I really do mean complicated multi-avenue attacks and viruses are written, almost before the new software is even on the shelf! Makes you wonder just who is writing these viruses and Trojans when you have to have an extremely intimate knowledge of the Microsoft code in order to write the attacks! Do they let just anyone have the code to play ('Beta') with and try to 'Break it'.what are they really doing? In 2007 alone, Microsoft has released 5 Cumulative Security Updates and 4 Vulnerability Updates making multiple updates JUST for Internet Explorer.
To those of us not privy to the code, we just wonder now, don't we? Now little Nazi Boy Jewish Hater, do not get down on me here, just yet! I am not going to tout Linux, as I have been a sys admin on the SPARC platform for Sun Solaris Servers using Sun’s proprietary Unix SunOS and BSD’s SVR4 or “System 5” since SunOS 4.1.2 (called Solaris 2 internally, or SunOS 5.x externally, for some reason!) in 1990-1991 when it was first was released.
BTW: It came with support for multiprocessor - SPARCserver 600MP systems and our servers had (4) - 450mHz Processors (FAST!!!) and It also was the first CD-ROM-only release). I also took Sun Microsystems training in Sun Solaris 8 (actually SunOS 5.8 (x86)) System Admin Boot Camp and Advanced System Administration Solaris 9 (actually SunOS 5.9 – don’t believe me? Do a uname -a at cmd prompt and you will see the OS as a 5.9 for your Solaris 9 OS) Operating Environment in 2000. But alas in 2005 Sun released the source code for Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10) so it is now “Open Sourced”, JUST LIKE LINUX YOU LUMMOX (Now you can get mad you Nazi!) and you don’t have to “Guess” what holes are hidden. There are not really any, with the cavieat that it is installed correctly with ports turned off and other such natural things you do!!! All versions of Unix/Linux are potentially at risk from improper and default configurations, and Brute-force attacks against remote services such as SSH, FTP, and telnet are still the most common form of attack to compromise servers facing the Internet, Unix, Linux, MacOS OR Microsoft! But, even Brute force can be thwarted very easily with good password enforcement.
Remember, It is important to remember that brute forcing passwords can be a used as a technique to compromise even a fully patched and properly configured system – Unix, Linux, MacOS or Microsoft. Anonymous said.
Windows Xp Wpa Patch
Very poor, man, this is only the half-way into it. The main-thang is. USE (almost) fully windows on an expired pc, with taskbar, with start-up-button, with your common desktop, BUT WITHOUT TASKMANAGER (but I bet theres also a way to keep it runnin). So, finally, in this case yoouu WILL need something else (a file of course) which will prevent windows-security-checkup-something to log you out if you once logged in with this trick.
So that file you need, you could create on a pc which should have almost the same hardware like your pc where you want to use that file for your expired windows. But in the even best case you did this as a wise man, if you ever had successfully activated your windows once!) That Files name is: 'wpa.dbl' and maybe your friend has a working windows which is already activated, get a try to use that that file (which could be found in x: windows system32-folder) and use it on your own system-folder.
OF COURSE, you can try my trick without that succesfully-activated-windows-wpa.dbl (from another pc which is almost with the same hardware-setup like yours, or a wpa.dbl-stored-file) but then you ve got maybe 2 minutes until your system will drop you out. So if you are finally in that iexplorer-window and once you got your wpa-file you chose over your browser that location of that successfully-activated 'wpa.dbl'-file (maybe from an usb-stick) and copy it right into your windows sytem32-folder, and of course overwright that existing bitch-file xD So if you already had done that. You are able to get your Windows-Desktop and your Taskbar back, finally.
That good old Windows look that you are known from before your pc 'expired' xD So go to your browser and open that directory 'c: windows system32 (or wherever you installed it)' and search for that file cmd.exe (you know. That important little file) xD if that dos-shell comes up, type in it:'explorer.exe' of course, thats all your windows is almost recovered in that you already known before that hackmack. BUT still dont close that 'windows-activation-window' minimize that. And if you dont have a proper wpa.dbl-file I bet you get kicked some minutes later. But if you have that file, and windows is a bitch, you may have to set it up sooner than you would think. Then it could rescue your work on your pc.
Sincerely Der-Meister-aller-Klassen. Anonymous said. OK here is ALL of what you can do: Option 1: The Linux Transfer.
THis is basically just booting of a live cd of linux and viewing your HDD that way. Google 'how to boot linux live cd' Option 2: The safe boot.Turn off your pc. Turn it on, and when on the boot screen (little blue bar scrolling across on XP) cut the POWER to your computer. (taking out the battery for laptops, turning of the surge-proctecter for Desktops) Now just restart and select 'boot into safe mode' option 3: Mod the BIOS on startup.
(i will not explain this because if you are good enough to do this, you would already know how) Hope this helps! Anonymous said. Many said buy the software.
DUDE i bouth a PC with the software supposably installed. FROM A STORE. Now I am just by passing the damn windows activation bs. Store close down, had to reformat harddrive do to trojans. Got rid of that and now I am stuck with a Windows Xp cd key sticker on my pc thats worth jack crap. I dont wanna go spend more money on this bs.
My pc worked great before the reformat, why cant microsoft just except that damn key again and let me reactivate. Your post is great BTW, but I need something to just F. Off microsoft's BS. TYPE:-c: windows explorer.exe in the browser. Download the explorer.exe & open it. You will get every thing as before for about 30 secs. Within that time open system restore & restore toa point before the activation had expired.System will logoff.
Then restart your system. During restarting change the date to one befor e it expired. Then log on in to your previous system. Dont forgot to activate the windows using crack AntiWPA. Download its torrent from. Anonymous said.
I've made it to my files lol! Here's where I'm clueless though.
Old laptop with original files dead - Compaq w/XP legal key New (but still old/used, however woking!) laptop was bought without hdd - Toshiba w/XP legal key. So I own 2 valid XP keys, but this activation came up when I put my Compaqs drive in the Toshiba - I assume the Toshibas hardware is causing the grief by what I've read - so now can I reactivate my hard drive to my Toshiba or do I have to reinstall XP from scratch on the hard drive while it's in the Toshiba? I can see my files in explorer via the instructions here but I cannot connect to the internet - I don't want to erase my Compaq hard drive because neither machine came with an actual XP disk, just a restore partition - so how should I reinstall and re-activate? And which key do I use? My Toshibas key or my Compaqs key?apologies for the long ramble lol =). Anonymous said. I have found that with Vista or W7if your 30 day grace period is about to expire you can simply change the date on your computer to a previous date to alot you more time before it locks up.
(must deactivate automatic date synchronization) Also if you have an illegitamate copy of Vista or W7 and a windows update invalidates your license, you are able to log on with limited usability and can restore to a previous date(most likely created before the updates are installed) which will un-invalidate your license, and allow you to hide the problematic update. Anonymous said.
My machine had been off for a couple months, and while it was off, it had expired before I got it activated. It also had a static IP address from another system, so could not connect to the internet. I got into Explorer using your trick, then managed to get Explorer running through that. Once I had Explorer up, I got into control panel (within that few seconds it runs is plenty of time) and got into my Network Settings and was able to reset the static IP address to DHCP, got a new valid address and was able to activate successfully.
John Lennon said. Part 2: - Download the latest WPAKILL and also AntiWPA (torrent).
Once you run NTFSPRO from DOS/win98 your dead drive is mounted and visible, usually as D: drive since you boot from C: (now USB Stick or CD/DVD). You can use DOS filemanagers like 'Norton commander' (free) to copy and save folders. Here's is what I did after some thinking. In d: windows system32 I backed up svchost.exe by DOS commands and.
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Go there first: d: cd d: windows system32 rename and bakup (you'll need it) ren svchost.exe svchost.bak genius bit: copy d: windows explorer.exe svchost.exe Now if you log in without USB/CD/DVD it gets in with much delay and explorer comes up for only 30 seconds ONLY. BUT running WPAKILL or AntiWPA or REG edit files do not work. SO: An old trick for Administrator Password change if forgot/etc.: Screensaver, if set, can be renamed to CMD or explorer.
But I had not set screensaver before Bill Gates stole my software. I gave it a shot. Boot into DOS/win98 with USB/CD/DVD again: run ntfspro then do this: d: (if your lost drive is d:) cd d: windows system32 backup logon.scr, if you didn't have this file: no harm: ren logon.scr logon.bak make DOS command box your new screensaver: copy cmd.exe logon.scr. John Lennon said. Part 3: Now take off USB/CD/DVD & boot normally. Get into windows activation and leave the machine (no touching keyboard or mouse or mving for screensaver to work) for 20 to 40 minutes. The command box pops up as screensaver!
Type: C: windows explorer.exe If this does not happen try again without logging into activation by saying No to the dialog box or leave it and it will eventually work after 30 minutes of not touching the machine. Once I had the explorer, I ran AntiWPA and then WPAKILL to make double sure! Then shut down & rebooted into DOS/win98. Deleted the svchost (which was in fact explorer.ex) and restored svchost: ren svchost.bak svchost.exe in windows system32 Shut down and took off USB (or your CD/DVD) and booted normally. It takes a while to boot in again as the thief's software is confused! CTRL+ALT+Del gives you the task manager. In processes kill unnecessary stuff like wuaudit or similar but nothing else if you are not sure.
Also from Task Manager file menu choose 1st option to run & type explorer.exe if things are taking too long. Use AntiWPA or WPAKILL or other stuff again if you want. Copy your stuff from desktop to safety and upgrade to Windows 7 (torrents) in good time which has a great deactivator there too. Set updates to NO as in XP. If new Service Pack for win7 comes up for Windows 7, don't use or at least wait 6 months to a year before installing as it will only do this sort of stuff again. Love & peace out;).
Anonymous said. I used this method to get access to my download folder and ran the install upgrade winks corp, which i had forgotten to do be for the 30 day lockout.my install CD for the program end up beaning corrupt so being able to get to the copy of on the HUD was a god send.for the time it saved me pulling the HUD sub Inga to another machine copying all user files,reinstalling back in the original case the doing a fresh install using this technical it was boot, couple of clicks and update,thanks my friend. Anonymous said. OMFG THIS IS BRILLIANT!!! I almost cried when i got a virus (stupidly disabled my antivirus while installing a game) and it corrupted my windows installation.
I did the repair but some files couldn't be copied, or so windows said. When the repair finished and i tried to login, that stupid product activation locked me out.
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It wouldn't accept my key or anything. Thanks to this little trick, i now have my pc back to normal. I have emails dating back to 2002 with important information on them so i was glad i didn't lose them - once i could login and run my activation killer, everything went back to normal:) THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS GREAT TUTORIAL! Anonymous said. I have been re-installing Windows XP every 30 days for the past few years. Its only a 2 hours reinstallation procedure every 30 days and it keeps me from shelling out.ANOTHER. $149.99 of my hard earned cash as Microsoft refuses to let me use my purchased XP after a Motherboard+VideoCard+Wifi+Hard drive upgrade at once.
Plus, you will not lose your files if you do a re-install, just dont reformat, leave file system intact, then install XP in a different folder, once done, delete manually the old windows directory and then go do c: documents and settings youroldusername to retrive your old files back and move them over to your new user profile. I think I will be retiring soon this copy of Windows XP and will be installing Ubuntu as soon as XP expires on me this one last time, I would not have to deal with this again. 1 – 200 of 221.