"MelindaGates" hack allows users to activate Vista without alerting Microsoft

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"MelindaGates" hack allows users to activate Vista without alerting Microsoft.

Hackers are distributing a file that they say lets users of the corporate version of Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system get around the software's anti-piracy mechanisms.

Windows Vista must be "activated," or authorized by Microsoft, before it will work on a particular machine. To simplify the task of activating many copies of Vista, Microsoft offers corporate users special tools, among them Key Management Service (KMS), which allows a company to run a Microsoft-supplied authorization server on its own network and activate Vista without contacting Microsoft for each copy.

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With all the talk about Microsoft's stepped up efforts to curb piracy through Vista's new activation methods, it may all be for naught after some crafty hackers figured out a way to crack the Vista Activation Server.

Microsoft's new activation policies call for every single copy of the new operating system to be activated. This includes copies purchased as part of the company's corporate volume licensing program, and Microsoft tried to make the process less daunting for IT administrators.

The company created something called the "Key Management Service," which would allow the administrator to activate all the computers in a single swoop. From there, a central computer would maintain all activations for the network.

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It should be noted that Home and Ultimate editions do no accept KMS keys, and still must use the traditional activation method -- although more secure in Vista -- of calling in directly to Microsoft themselves.
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oh oh..what does "slmgr.vbs -xpr' say on my vista

"The machine is permanently activated" time for a critical license update :ohyeah:

regards.
 
ferrar! said:
oh oh..what does "slmgr.vbs -xpr' say on my vista

"The machine is permanently activated" time for a critical license update :ohyeah:

regards.
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I just installed Vista 32bit edition and want to activate it.

Could you please help me ?

Cheers,
Lovebhai.
 
for those of who did not know..actually even i didnt know..but MELINDA GATES is wife of Mr. Bill gates..and is believed to be among the top 10 most powerful women in the world..

lol..first the pirates named the leaked vista final as "BILL GATES VERSION "

and now the crack has been named after her wife..MELINDA... he hee hee...dont know what hackers\pirates think..while keeping such names
 
Who mentioned anything about a crack? I pointed him to a legitmate way of getting a serial through a tech-connect purchase.

vij said:
wow TE now openly discussing cracks and hacks eh...
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vij nobodyz discussing cracks n stuff here , please read the whole thread properly again until u make such claims
 
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