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The other day, techPowerUp! reported on a keygen for Windows Vista which supposedly allowed users to (illegally) generate activation codes for use with Vista which could fool the activation. However, the creator of this brute force keygen, known simply as "Computer User" on the KezNews forums, is himself admitting that the keygen was a joke and he's never gotten it to work, saying "everyone who said they got a key a probably lying or mistaken!" There have been some reports of success, and although there is a slight chance the keygen could work, the chances of actually generating a working code are slim - it would probably take days if you got one at all. So it looks like he's either worried about action from Microsoft and pretending it doesn't work, or it genuinely is a fake.

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hmmm...this would been a nice April fools joke...

probably it just gave the ip's of all peeps who attempted to get a illegal copy of vista to microsoft ;)
 
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Hope its ok to say this but i found one that worked easily
 
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Eh Im sure an offline one could worked. At least I guess less chance of buying it and getting screwed
 

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HAHAHAHA to all the fools who rushed out and tried it. I hate liars.
 

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It didn't look like a hoax at the time, that's for sure :p.
 

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i have proof that it is possible, but forum rules........
 
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Actually it wasn't a hoax, the keygen does work. It is however very inefficient and the writer doesn't want people to use it anymore. MS probably send a suicide lawyer to his home or something.
 
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Keygen aye :D

Im sure there are plenty out there, i just havent looked yet :p
 
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Well not plenty, but they do exist
 
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Sorry, against forum rules :)
 

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-_- i guess if your lucky it could work but i tried it (though i DO have a LEGAL vista copy) just to try it ...and well i noticed the resources on my PC would go back down to normal after like 10-20 minutes :p


:shadedshu

i bet bill gates made it up so he can make people feel like they waisted days of there lives

:rockout:

seriously guys, its not like your paying 500 dollars for it :COUGH:MAC LEOPARD ::COUGH::

its 120 dollars for the home premium which is definitely not that bad...

it goes like this ..people want vista and windows to be "easier" and not so aggravating with activation.

THAN STOP F@#KING STEALING IT...and they wont have to take all these measures to prevent piracy
 
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lmao im not even using vista...i agree, its cheap...its probably better to buy it (unless you have a lot of comps)

My point was that im pretty sure (not 100% cus i havent even looked) that there has to be a keygen for it
 

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im sure that there is...ha, but like i said there getting more and more ticked off with people soon you will only be able to activate vista through phone haha every 180 days

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even with phone activation - people can get around it with cracks/keygens

I remember with norton 2005, there was this nifty keygen that generated a key, then when you went to "activate it" by phone, you put the phone code in the keygen and it gave u the phone code :p
 

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even with phone activation - people can get around it with cracks/keygens

I remember with norton 2005, there was this nifty keygen that generated a key, then when you went to "activate it" by phone, you put the phone code in the keygen and it gave u the phone code :p

even 2006 was cracked this way...
 

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yeah and they figured it out, and now you cant do it anymore ;) everything is stopped at some point and time

its always finding new ways around it that is really time consuming

if people spent half as much time at work and getting money together as they did searching for ways and techniques for cracking vista, they'd be able to buy it...at least twice over ;P
 
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if people spent half as much time at work and getting money together as they did searching for ways and techniques for cracking vista, they'd be able to buy it...at least twice over ;P

I agree. But piracy is high because of prices. If you looked at a curve, you would find a point where sales price is moderate and piracy is low, MS needs to rethink their pricing. Then people would do like u say just buy it in ten minutes rather than spend hours downloading and cracking and run the risk of backdoors or malware put in by hackers. This would up their sales, save on staff and R&D defending against piracy, also would up marketshare lost to OpenSource. Guess they already know all this wont work and are way smarter than I, or they would be doing it.
 

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I agree. But piracy is high because of prices. If you looked at a curve, you would find a point where sales price is moderate and piracy is low, MS needs to rethink their pricing. Then people would do like u say just buy it in ten minutes rather than spend hours downloading and cracking and run the risk of backdoors or malware put in by hackers. This would up their sales, save on staff and R&D defending against piracy, also would up marketshare lost to OpenSource. Guess they already know all this wont work and are way smarter than I, or they would be doing it.



perhaps but i really dont think Vista cost alot? i mean 119 dollars (online) for Vista Home Premium is NOT a lot by any means, granted all the "restrictions" they put on it (1 copy per 1 system in a house).

Take Apple for example, Leopard is going to cost. roughly 500 dollars (USD). PER license copy, which means ONE mac computer..i mean granted they dont have "activation" and what not.. im sure there going to implement something soon concidering mac's software is easier to pirate cause the lack of protection measures.!:rockout:

but never the less you are pretty much right i mean yes, i believe XP was over priced at launch way over priced..but Vista isn't that much money, aside from needing a decent system these days but who here doesn't have that ha, even so look at prices for performance notice the better it is the more expensive it is...but in Vista's case microsoft lowered the launch price by around one hundred dollars

so they were trying to play and be smart

they failed by saying this line

"it will be very hard if not impossible for someone to hack/crack windows vista"

M$'s fate was sealed when they said this :banghead:
 
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Yes it is cheap...if you have the HW. I mean I got my copy of HomePrem for $69 academic price. Should be everyones price. But yes OEM is a bargain too at 119. Too bad many people are spreading rumors like u cant reactivate if you get a new MB, so I think alot of people are are being misled into thinking retail is the only solution...and that is expensive.

I am not too happy with Vista, best things are appearance, installs faster, and Media center. But other than that I am not ready to ditch my XP partition.
 
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