Who uses 'Free' Software???

[fatty]

using a pirated version of xp pro and I still get my updates from ms, I just use the Windows Genuine Advantage dll crack to get around it. Once ms stop that one and i get the warning popping up on my pc saying that i am using a dodgy copy of windows i just run another bit of software and it gets rid of that as well.

 

[ScottyKM]

ah well was only a £15 quid OEM copy to sort it, am a bit of a novice on some of this malarky

 

[cookie]

where'd you get an OEM for £15? ebay?

that seems cheap.

 

[SOAA]

I tried to download an update from Microsoft's site using a GENUINE copy and license number of Windows XP but I was told that my license was not genuine. The way I got round it was to download the update using my other NON-GENUINE copy of Windows and it went through fine... go figure??

 

[Fanum]

I tried to download an update from Microsoft's site using a GENUINE copy and license number of Windows XP but I was told that my license was not genuine. The way I got round it was to download the update using my other NON-GENUINE copy of Windows and it went through fine... go figure??

IIRC, there was a thing about if you change the PC's configuration by a certain amount after installing windoze, it wouldn't recognize the PC and would think you're on a different machine....I had a similar prob a few years back with my last machine..new GPU, two new HDD's, lots of other stuff added..it was essentialy a new PC in the same box so when I had to reload windoze, it didn't allow me to do so until I called MS and they gave me a new serial to use with my OEM CD.

 

[cookie]

I tried to download an update from Microsoft's site using a GENUINE copy and license number of Windows XP but I was told that my license was not genuine. The way I got round it was to download the update using my other NON-GENUINE copy of Windows and it went through fine... go figure??

heard of a few instances of that happening.

 

[SOAA]

In the end I also changed the CD Key that I had used on my legit Windows to one that was not legit and I could then download the updates on that PC fine as well

 

[cookie]

oh dear

'nother link

 

[shugie]

oh dear

'nother link

Very over the top, particularly if the Register is right, and copyright is not that big a deal in Sweden. 50 cops? Time will tell, but I wonder which particular corporate noses piratebay got up?

 

[cookie]

I wonder which particular corporate noses piratebay got up?

it seems to be the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) that usually jumps on the bittorrent stuff.

i only ever downloaded 1 film from bittorrent: Jarhead, it was shit.

 

[Fanum]

I've used them a lot.

 

[Ste@SSB]

I own a fully legit copy of XP Pro but don't use it ... I have a blag "corporate" version installed instead as it doesn't keep asking me to call some eejit at Microsoft everytime I format and reinstall or if I change a few bits of hardware ... justifiable thievery I think...

 

[swebb]

using a pirated version of xp pro and I still get my updates from ms, I just use the Windows Genuine Advantage dll crack to get around it. Once ms stop that one and i get the warning popping up on my pc saying that i am using a dodgy copy of windows i just run another bit of software and it gets rid of that as well.

And where would somebody find this .dll crack to get around the warning popping up?

(not that i need it you understand, just interested... honest me 'lud....)