XP authenticity issue

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Mike Hall, MS-MVP

No doubt some will be thanking you for supplying two Windows key codes..
they will be seen in the Microsoft newsgroups and a variety of other public
online places.. yet another strike for the pirates..
 
Mike said:
No doubt some will be thanking you for supplying two Windows key codes..
they will be seen in the Microsoft newsgroups and a variety of other
public online places.. yet another strike for the pirates..

These are not the PK codes but just the generated PID's. And
they are really meaningless except that the PID's indicate that
they were probably generated from legitimate PK's. Whether or not
these PK's remain legal would be up to Microsoft to decide whether
to accept or reject them during activation.
 
Alon,

Please don't post your PID or serial numbers on the web. I have removed
them on this message (I can't do anything on what has already been
posted) but you should refrain from doing so.

hth
 
Fix your clock!

You are posting from the future.

To change your computer's time and time zone
1.. Open Date and Time in Control Panel. Or right click the Clock/Adjust
Date-Time.
2.. On the Date & Time tab, select the item you want to change.
a.. To change the hour, double-click the hour, and then click the arrows
to increase or decrease the value.
b.. To change the minutes, double-click the minutes, and then click the
arrows to increase or decrease the value.
c.. To change the seconds, double-click the seconds, and then click the
arrows to increase or decrease the value.
d.. To change the AM/PM indicator, select it, and then click the arrows.
3.. To change your time zone, click the Time Zone tab. In the box above
the map, click the drop-down arrow, and then click your current time
zone.
Notes
a.. Windows uses the time setting to identify when files are created or
modified.
b.. If you want your computer's clock to be adjusted automatically when
daylight saving time changes, make sure the Automatically adjust clock
for daylight saving changes check box is selected. This setting is
located on the Time Zone tab.
c.. Most computer clocks are regularly synchronized with a network time
server (if you are a member of a domain) or an Internet time server
(when you connect to the Internet).

More info here:
http://www.visi.com/~barr/timezone.html

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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Alon said:
I AM in the future for you if you're in the US....7 hrs ahead from EST...My
clock is fine 12:56 am August 03,2006
Your clock may be OK, but your time zone setting doesn't seem quite
right. Interestingly, according to the time stamps I see, this message
was posted [1857 EDT] 21 minutes BEFORE the message that Wes complained
about [1918 EDT].
 
Alon said:
I AM in the future for you if you're in the US....7 hrs ahead from
EST.


No, where you are doesn't matter. Posts are always corrected for your time
zone and show on everyone's newsreader in their own local time.

.My clock is fine 12:56 am August 03,2006


You are posting an hour ahead, so if your clock is right, you have the time
zone set an hour off.
 
Actually today I had 3-4 long talks with MS Israel and they simply told me
that as long as there's no sticker,there's no license to use Windows.
So I formatted my HD and now the issue is solved.I would be buying Win XP
Home that costs 500 shekels =112$.
As a matter of fact I downloaded a MS Utility that using a PID gives you 15
charts out of 25 of PK,so I compared and it matched.
So for the future reference when I'll buy a 2nd hand PC I would look for a
sticker and run a utility to compare PK.

Al
P.S. Why not to post PID-PK? What harm someone could cause me? I have all
the papers....
 
Lisbon, Portugal, GMT Time: 02 August 2006, 23H55
Please, post the same from your place.
Regards.


Alon Brodski said:
I'm in a correct zone with a correct time
 
I AM in the future for you if you're in the US....7 hrs ahead from EST...My
clock is fine 12:56 am August 03,2006
 
Hello!

I recently called Microsoft Israel and tried to find out it there,but they
don't know themselves so it's kinda under investigation now,so I'm trying
the other ways.
I talked to a MS cust service rep and he told me that there's no way to find
out the Product Key and all the info connected to original purchase of
Windows if ,say,Windows is valid,BUT the COA sticker is missing.I'm talking
about PID in System Properties...
Logically...it may happen that the HD with Windows is not with original
Windows and there's a sticker on a computer with COA.So if there's no
connection between PID and COA (Product Key-bar code No.),then how MS can
tell whether the Windows was actually purchased?
I would assume that MS's distributors have all the lists of retailers with
Product ID's and bar code No.'s in their database
to track the purchases.
Moreover (and that's the core of the question)...I have 2 PC's at home with
Windows XP Pro Eng.On one (1st) I personally installed Windows from original
OEM CD that I purchased.And the (2nd) machine I bought with Windows
pre-installed,but without sticker on a box (it did pass though the
validation on MS web site).
So what I did was simply compared the string of digits and letters of both
PID's in sys properties.
So the 1st was 55274-OEM-0046506-14728
the 2nd was 55274-640-1953827-23941.
So if you visually COMPARE both numbers,you would see that there's some
hidden meaning behind them.
BECAUSE on the original OEM CD (1st PC) on a COA sticker the BAR CODE No.
is:00045-465-014-728
So if you compare the PID of the 1st with a bar code No. you would see that
it's 90% identical:
00045-465-014-728 and 55274-OEM-0046506-14728 (well the begining is
different,but since 55274 appears on both PC's PID's I would assume that
maybe it's stands for ISRAEL (or world region etc.),so it doesn't matter.

So maybe someone could demystify the Microsoft misteries?
 
Jerusalem Time Zone...25 miles from me :-)



Lem said:
Alon said:
I AM in the future for you if you're in the US....7 hrs ahead from
EST...My clock is fine 12:56 am August 03,2006
Your clock may be OK, but your time zone setting doesn't seem quite right.
Interestingly, according to the time stamps I see, this message was posted
[1857 EDT] 21 minutes BEFORE the message that Wes complained about [1918
EDT].
 
I'm in a correct zone with a correct time


Ken Blake said:
No, where you are doesn't matter. Posts are always corrected for your time
zone and show on everyone's newsreader in their own local time.




You are posting an hour ahead, so if your clock is right, you have the
time zone set an hour off.
 
You are in the correct Time Zone now. Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 01:26:14 +0200

Your original message in this thread was in my Time Zone for Colorado,
SA. -0700

You're using Outlook Express.

Right click your first message in this thread | Click Properties | Click the
Details tab |

Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:18:11 -0700

You can't fool us.

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MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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No, where you are doesn't matter. Posts are always corrected for your time
zone and show on everyone's newsreader in their own local time.

Does Daylight Savings Time screw things up? The US (AFAIK) is the only
nation that does DST (and also the only nation that does non-metric
considerations). Lovely.
 
Tim said:
Does Daylight Savings Time screw things up?

No.


The US (AFAIK) is the
only nation that does DST


Not even close to true.

(and also the only nation that does
non-metric considerations).


There you are close, but still not completely correct.
 
It is Daylight Saving Time, one S in Saving.

If you look at this map, you'll see that a fair share of the world observes
it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Daylight_savings_time_world.png

"Israel observes DST starting on the last Friday before April 2 and ending
at 2 a.m. on the Sunday between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur."

As far as the metric deal, I personally could care less if the US officially
adopts the metric system.

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Wesley said:
As far as the metric deal, I personally could care less if the US officially
adopts the metric system.

They tried and it was as successful as the two dollar bill.

Alias
 
--Alias-- said:
They tried and it was as successful as the two dollar bill.


The attempt was half-hearted. Selling a quart of milk, but calling it .9463
liters, isn't the same as really using the metric system, which would mean
selling milk in liters instead of quarts.
 
I'm not fooling....I'm simply telling that my time zone and PC time is
correct.
What you see somewhere is none of my business.
 
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