I must state from the beginning that this article is not about cracking activation engine because we don't want to break our Windows EULA, do we? This article tries to show you ways to bypass Windows XP product activation for those emergency situations. I will explain in details below. Let's suppose that you have a licensed copy of an Windows XP but lately you have installed-activated/uninstalled it for several times. At some point the Microsoft Activation Server just get bored and says 'OK, if you want me to activate your license then please pick up the phone and call me!' Mar 08, 2012 Snorg asked the Answer Line forum if Microsoft will activate new Windows XP installations after the company stops supporting the operating system. The Online Tech Tips site offers up a great tip for anyone reinstalling XP off something other than their original CD—such as a slipstreamed and automated. Windows XP marks the first time Microsoft has ever copy-protected Windows, meaning you can't install Windows XP on more than one PC from the same CD. (Technically, the CDs are all identical. What you really can't use more than once is your serial number.) If you have a desktop PC as well. What if you get bored (or you are just lazy) to call Microsoft and to justify yourself and to ask them 'Please, can you activate the copy that I bought legally? Yes, I have an invoice, in fact I have 10 invoices because it happens that I bought more copies than I'm using right now. No, I'm not a software theft, I cross my heart and hope to die!' Well, in that situation (let me make myself clear: when you both have the legal right to use that piece of software and you don't break the EULA) you could just try to exploit one of the Windows XP weaknesses. In fact you could try to exploit more than one, I'm sure about that (someone might think that I did it in the past; maybe they're right). You could find yourself in one of the following situations: • the 30 days has expired so you cannot access the Desktop anymore • you are within those 30 days time limit but you want to get rid of this issue Your 30 days has expired So you've got a message like the one below. Let's activate Windows - click WinKey+u By pressing simultaneous ' key' and 'u' (WinKey+u) you will open a window called 'Microsoft narrator' where you can click on some hyperlink called 'Microsoft web site' which in turn will open your default web browser (hopefully IE otherwise it works but with one more step; we get to this soon). Note: if by pressing +u it opens another window named 'Narrator' then, in order to get the 'Microsoft narrator' window, you have to right-click that window's title-bar and to choose 'About narrator' pop-up menu. So the ' narrator' window should look like this. Click the 'Microsoft Web site' link At this point the idea is to get the IE browser opened because the browser has 'an issue' that we are going to exploit it. In case that your default browser is /Chrome/Opera/etc we should do some extra steps in order to open your IE browser because finally the IE is the one we are going to hack. If your browser is just IE then skip the steps below and go to the 'IE browser opened'. Non-IE browser opened • enter 'C:' in your browser address bar; your browser should show the content of C: directory • navigate to the C:WindowsSystem32 directory then click 'taskmgr.exe' to download it; after it have downloaded just run that application (taskmgr.exe) • on choose File->Run then enter 'iexplore.exe' and hit OK; that will open your IE browser; finally you can use it (see below) IE browser opened In the address bar enter 'C:' then hit OK.
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