Latest Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Cracked

All these workarounds are moot judging by the latest WIndows Defender BETA 2.

It won't install if the user has an invalid Win XP product key, thereby nipping the pirates' plans in the bud. What MS ought to do is disable the functionality of these machines until the user coughs up the dough to buy a licensed copy of the OS. At the same time, reduce the price of the package so more people will be enticed to but legit copies.

The Starter Edition versions of XP are just like the Windows ME version - utter rubbish.

Maybe if Microslobs didn't have such a stranglehold on the OS business and would price their products to be affordable for everyone then there wouldn't be a need for all the cracks and workarounds and such. Then maybe your ordinary "Joe Citizen" could afford to buy it and still get online after. Cause anybody with any good sence might have noticed that "Jack Familyman" is havin a hard time of it these days. -- ñòóKýçrÕôK

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If Microsoft lowered their prices, then they would get sued (yet again) for bad "marketing tactics." Having prices too low drives any potential competition away.

You guys should be running Microsoft.

@ Anonymous 2 posts up:

What utter pish! Last time I checked there was a very powerful, multi-role operating system with support for as many devices as M$ offerings and furthermore - it was FREE.

It's called Linux!

Hell, you can even add xtra eye candy, rebadge it and call it OSX.

M$ software sucks in the amount of background applications and services it installs (as standard) wether you want them or not.
This contributes to the need for constant security updates.

Don't even get me started on anti-trust with things like M$-Java and the way explorer renders html. Why is he paying developers to screw up perfectly fine standards already agreed upon in RFCs?

Damn right I wouldn't pay the asking price for this *convenience*

Yeah, I'm forced to agree on the cost part at least. The cheapest I can find the non-crippled version of XP is $140 here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16837102062 (Maybe you can do better, but, the point remains that it's in that ballpark.) I mean, how ridiculous is that? When a brand new game costs $50 -- maybe just maybe $60 if it's really really hyped -- and quickly falls to $40 within a couple of weeks or so, MS charges you more than $100 just to get the basic thing needed to hold it all together. Not to metion the "we get to screw you and do whatever we feel like to your computer" clauses littering the EULA that you supposedly agree to by just using the thing. The fact is, there is competition out there, but, outside of the business world you are forced to use Windows if you are a gamer or user of many different types of software that simply don't work (or at least not well enough) in linux. Microsoft has a stranglehold and they know it, so they can get away with bs prices and software like this genuine advantage checker that even people with legit copies are uncomfortable with (seriously, who knows how much personally identifying information is being passed along to MS while they decide whether or not you own your copy of windows. I even read one article where the owner of a legit copy was completely screwed simply because they changed the date on their system and the WGA suddenly decided it was no longer valid simply because of that...)

Our only real hope is that things like linux somehow catch up and give MS a real run for their money instead of simply holding them back from the royal screwing they are all set up for (just imagine what they could do if they decided to use this to start crippling peoples' computers at will? You can't do much on a computer without an operating system, and even today your average joe has no idea how to use linux, much less install it.) Then perhaps they would be forced to stop with their obsessive integration of everything into everything else, split up things like IE, and so on. It would cost them probably millions -- if not billions -- since they'd have to rewrite half of their stuff from the ground up to get them to actually compete with the alternatives out there... (Seriously, there's just no hope for some things like IE or WMP with the direction they've gone over the years and they would just simply have to start over on those.) MS will fight that tooth and nail I'm sure. See, the problem is that when you buy windows, you are buying WMP, IE, and a myriad of other crap that a lot of us will never use. If they took those out, Windows could be competitively priced instead of the current pricing method that assumes we all make as much as Bill does. As long as those are in there, windows has to cost an insane amount.

You know, it strikes me that if I ran MS, I might be tempted by some of the linux models. Take out the crap like WMP and IE and toss in free things like Foobar and Mozilla. Lol, but, if I ran MS, I would get kicked out for record expenditures when I try to completely change the company from "Where do we want you to go today?" back into the old motto of "Where do you want to go today?" and fix things up so that the company actually would have a fighting chance if linux ever suddenly becomes easy and popular. (Seriously, if that happened tomorrow somehow, MS would go right down the crapper. It just can't compete. That's part of what scares them so much about Google.)

tech nerd - dude, OSX is built on BSD. *not* linux. there is a significant difference.

Wow that was a whole lotta BS
Linux is easy to use
it works with hardware better
crashes less
has many times more usability
in its interface , whichever one you may choose
Comes preinstalled with all the best software, many times easier to install
I dont beleive that person has ever used linux unless it was in the 90's

Its not as popular because
windows comes preinstalled on every "dell" , because people get taught
for example "pentium is sooooo much better than a cheap AMD"
because some people are like
"i must have my weather bar/buddy"
and they dont care if its riddled with ads and or spyware

because windows is the standard
not because it should be the standard

1 experience with "my soundcard wouldnt work with linux" and they never try again
but if you've ever tried installing windows from scratch , see if your lucky enough to have only 1 thing not working

Interesting enough its people like the last poster that keeps windows dominate......just use linux
if thats not for you , use a mac

Arg... godddamn that wasn't the point he was makin dude. he was just saying that most ppl know windows and (unluckily) they have the power.
not used linux myself a huge amount tho i do like it i have to say, but not having access to all the programs i've grown to know and love would be a pain in the ass, then we come to the small problem of enabling 3d rendering in a linux style os :S not found an easy way of that so far :> and as for crashing, i've had my comp up and running and connected up for a months at a time without crasing (unless my northgate starts to melt). as for things not working on fresh installs, they work fine if you have the drivers for em, and finally yeah i use an amd :)

Tell you what. You show me how to get all my games to work on any flavor of Linux/BSD clone system, and I'll gladly switch over in a heartbeat.

When it comes down to it, if people keep making applications for Windows, there's now way to switch to Linux or anything else. If 95% of our applications are running on Windows, we pretty much are stuck using Windows and Mickysoft knows that.

Software companies aren't going to risk the money and time of creating two (or more) versions of their software for different OSs.

Look at MAC. MAC has spent tons of advertising and Marketing dollars to promote their computer. They have a great OS but because MAC is such a small market share of the people out there, still TONS Of software developers will not make software for MACS... too risky, too little return on investment.

It's like a Catch 22; we want to switch OS but all our apps use Windows. App companys might like to design for other OSs but everybody is already using windows.

The solution will be when a company out there will be able to make an OS that will support FULLY Window's Applications. If that happens, then there will be a transition out of Windows.

Ultimately, applications dictate what OS the consumer uses, not the other way around.

Just to give my 2 cents about this.

In reality the perfect OS world is really messed up. Let's see why?

LINUX
People say it's easy, it's secure, it's perfect, it's blah blah blah. Let's face it. It is nice, it is perfect, it is secure when you know how to use it, how to install it, ... i.e., a person must be beyond the regular/normal user to be able to install it. I am not gonna get into the "how to use it" or "hot to troubleshoot it" bits. And all this happens no matter what distribution one would install (from the hundreds available - which is another SCARY thing about Linux). Some people out there are computer geeks, other they just want to be able to use the OS without too much hussle (even if they have to use IE ...)...

WINDOWS
Is nice, is beautiful, it's easy , blah, blah blah ... Well ... IT IS BLUDDY F****** EXPENSIVE for what it does (or, what it is suppose to do). Apart from that,... hey, just admit it: Once you have it properly configured and you are proficient with it (the same way a Linux person would be proficient with LInux), it works great!!

CONCLUSION: Neither of this two solutions is actually good enough for the average people. Truth is that Linux is just too difficult to master (unfortunately!) and not realy user-friendly - It is improving though! Yet, there is still a long path to even get close to Windows.

Microsoft Winodws.... is just to "heavy" but it does a couple of things quite well realy. And even Linux people would have to admit that (it would be fair enough) if they look at it without looking for perfection. Linux is not perfect either. IT IS EXPENSIVE THOUGH!!

Let's face it ... The day Linux become as popular and used as Windows, then, only then, many of the problems windows has today will become LInux's. This will never happen anyway: Microsoft has all the resource available to fight this!!! Their position in the market, is still strong. Quite strong actually - despite the tecniques they use! It is just the way this world works!

Alright that last comment made me want to post... So expensive? You are paying $160 or so for software you use everyday, without it you would not be able to do many things that you do on your computer. Sure you could use linux and I do, but regardless is isn't that expensive... Do you really need a fridge? or a stove? Why don't you cook on a fire? It is convience that's what, we are all used to paying for it but people just like to bitch and moan.

I don't know how people can say linux is easier than windows. I can design a simple computer from fabricating NAND gates upwards - I'm a bit rusty but I have a natural ability for such things. I did a lot of stuff on UNIX at university. Recently I've tried ubuntu and suse linux latest versions in a vmware environment on my main computer, and a suse host for vmware on my brother-in-law's computer. Using linux in an everyday way is ok - just takes a shift of what one is use to in windows. But the learning curve required to do anything like installations requiring a compilation for example is enormous!. I had to expend a lot of effort to get some things running in linux - visiting forums, making a lot of use of snapshots in vmware and so on. I can programme in C/C++. I can design/make a simple computer out of frigging components. I say linux is not upto windows standards. My windows 2000 / windows xp real and virtual installations very very very rarely crash. Simple security measures mean that I've only had 1 virus incident in 10 years. I can integrate explorer and office components simply for database use using visual basic / vb net and ADO etc. very very quickly ... getting database functionality on Word forms ...the benefits of crystal reports on existing packages etc. I havn't got into Core Mono yet on linux, but I can't see much scope for scripting or rapid prototyping in an enterprise style on linux/open-source stuff. Maybe I'm wrong there - from ignorance ... but that's the way I see it. I'm fine with C/C++ but that takes a lot of time to do anything interesting for interfaces/interactivity/human-friendly database interrogation and business layers (multi-tier stuff). If I want to do anything with vis-basic and ADO I just look it up on the internet. If I try looking up something about linux on the internet, I have to look up 10 other things just to understand the postings about the thing I was trying to look up in the first place. Just running a web server on linux and knowing for sure that security's tight is a major endeavour (unless I just download a virtual machine already setup for that - one serious advantage of open-source software). Having said all that, I think windows is far too expensive. I have legit copies of xp and windows 2000 and office 2000, but I don't get paid for stuff I develop - it's more of a hobby ... and other people have problems with windows and ms software which I help them out with ... so I figure I don't want to pay ms any more just because I want to run more than one copy of something. I don't get paid to do that. That's all I have to say anyway. DAve.

Problem: When i go to IE-Tools-Manage Add-ons-Window genuine advantage...the settings area is set to disabled but it blanked out so i cant edit it.

Does anyone know how i can change the status back to Enable??

Thanks.

Bill ain't gonna lower the price. 65 billion is not enough for one man. How could he possibly feed and cure all the aids infested niggers in africa if he don't squeeze more $ out of us?

Anyone having hassles getting 3D to work with linux should simply install a program called 'Envy' right after installing their brand new lovely Ubuntu Linux CD.

Download the Envy.deb file, double-click on it to install. Run when ready and it will fetch the latest and best ATI/NVIDIA drivers for your machine - presto, 3D graphics are all set. Install Beryl, and nuke your XP installation at first glimpse of the light ;)

Seriously, the days of hardware problems in Linux seem to be over. TV Card, Graphics, DVDRW, USB removables, WinXP NTFS partitions, USB PlayStation joypad adapter - all installed by default and work perfectly.

I'm no propellerhead as far as Linux goes, but it's that easy now I don't need to be.


Oh, and I've got a message for the Anonymous poster, above (8/4/07 2:41 AM)....

You're an arse. Microsoft's corporate pricing ("we charge $$$ instead of $$ because we can") and Gate's philanthropy (which is a good thing) are separate issues. I suspect if you had $65 million spare, you'd piss it all away on Crystal Meth, Cheese Whizz and Pay-Per-View.

You big, selfish arse.

- Tom

(hope I'm not triple-posting this...)

My 2 cents:

I dont know about anyone else, but I personally have no problem paying for M$ software (or even any software) that I am GOING TO USE - even if it is slightly expensive (although I'll be steering way clear of Vista - what is up with that!). At the end of the day, M$ are here to stay - I just wish they'd focus more on delivering software that I want (that works!) and not software that they want to give me (i.e. Vista). And get rid of the friggin WGA - I don't want my machine clogged up with crap like that.

You may think I don't like Vista - you'd be right. Just comparing minimum requirements tells you it all. I can get all the fancy extras through 3rd party software (if I actually wanted them) without the extreme expense.

In the scheme of things - paying for something like XP is equivilent to a few evenings out. If you can afford to go out more than once a week (or like Brian said - can afford a new stove/fridge/etc), you should be able to afford some software that you can/will use for several/many years - not to mention that it is the environment for all your other software. I'm not saying I agree with the product pricing - but *most* people shouldn't have a problem making that *one off* payment for it. At least you'll have a reason to complain to M$ when it goes wrong without knowing you have a cracked version.
The other thing is that XP comes pre-installed with new machines anyway - so excuses are pretty much minimal. It's only upgrades to older machines or custom builds that really count.

I also run a Linux server btw - but I have to say I am still a novice there (Learning!...) I can't really see Linux ever taking over the general/corporate desktop market though. Like other people pointed out - the market share and ROI is too low (if anything) for 3rd party software companies to seriously consider investing in. Linux will probably just continue in it's techy nerd/alternative web server markets (not that there is anything wrong with that); it just seems a bit too niché.

I totally agree with the comments about MS' price gouging, and the anger toward it. I'd love to learn linux. Many times I've searched the internet looking for great tutorials and learning tools, only to find the completely ANTI MS author has made it impossible for me to read while using IE. I've since gone to different Linux distribution sites, and to my dismay, some of the most popular ones are proprietary ( for morons such as the one complaining about BG giving away his money, that means you have to pay for it, dumbass). Also, are programming languages such as PERL, C++ and Java compatible with Linux? I have Windows XP Pro, I like how it works, but I don't like the fact I had to use a friend's burnt copy because it cost too much money. Home edition is a piece of crap for what I do, ME should stand for Millennial Excrement, and Vista, well, 'nuff said. An OS that requires a minimum of 1GB of RAM to operate smacks of way too much stuff running in the background, and doing stuff we'd be afraid of if we knew what it was. Vista cuts down on what you're able to do, access and control, and that is a no-brainer to stay away from. I'll learn linux when I can take time off my busy workdays (hopefully near future) and when I've seen that I can do on Linux that I can do on Windblows, I'll happily make the change. For the record, my all-time favorite oxymoron is....
Microsoft Works

Here's the real sad truth; with great power comes great responsibility!! Microsoft are gigantic on the software market and they suffer for it! How?, Well the monopoly laws of USA prevent them from becoming perfect, better and very efficient for their users. Because if they do (make perfect OS) they'll smash out all forms of competions i.e. other companys that are struggling to survive in the software market, mac, linux etc.. So stop dissing them like it was their fault. Cos it isn't. They are doing their best to remain in business by looking very silly, making resource gobbling OS, softwares runnig slow, high pricing etc; it's all intentional, to keep themselves(Microsft) operating within the legal laws of monopoly. Oh yes of-course, Bill Gates definately can create an OS much better than Mac's own or linux but Hey, the moment he does, the legal system will crash him down an' split he's hard earned company to bits an' pieces!! Now if we had a job an' were making it big time, we would not want to lose it, let alone go down in history like that. same for ol' Bill.
So let's face the hard truth; Microsoft cannot become perfect! No if they wanna remain bit an' mighty .
And remember "with great power...." finish it so it sticks in your constantly complaining minds!!