Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Bypass Windows Activation?
Technology Updates
1) How to bypass WPA (Windows Activation) on Windows XP. - by FittMunken
Tested on Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
First, click "Run..." on your start menu, type "regedit" and press enter.
The Registry Editor opens up, and you are presented with a long list of keys on the left.
Browse through the list to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents.
(If you can't find this key, you're screwed!)
On the right, you should see a stringz value named OOBETimer.
This is the activation stuff. If you change it, Windows will change it back within a few seconds.
Whatever its value is, change it to FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD.
(At first I thought this was different for each machine/serial number, but it's always the same if windows is activated...LOL)
After you've changed it, right-click WPAEvents and choose "Permissions..."
A little window opens up with a list of user names. Click SYSTEM, and in the list below ("Permissions for SYSTEM") check every box under "Deny". Click OK to own windows. You don't even have to reboot lol.
If you're too slow windows might change it back, so just hit F5 to refresh and make sure it got saved.
If not, just try again. Microsoft owns for making it so easy to hack their software.
So, just keep on enjoying an activated version of windows. FittMunken over and out!
And if you need to download windows, here are a few places to get it:
You obviously need a bittorrent client, and you might as well make sure to download the best one!
www.utorrent.com owns all other bittorrennt clients. in fact, all other clients suck.
www.mininova.org
www.piratebay.org
www.2torrents.com
www.torrentleech.org
www.torrentbytes.net
www.powerbits.org
www.filelist.org
A good release is Microsoft.Windows.XP.Professional.SP2.Final.Integrated-PMM.English
It doesn't even require any activation. It's pre-release, but it's build 2600 so it's the same as final.
2)ONLY WORKS WITH SP1
- Go on regedit
- Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents
- go on OOBETimer and Change the last Value from 00 to 97.
- The activation screen shld appear.
- Then go on phone activation and type in 401111 for every box.
It should work (Until you install SP2, which resets it.)
To check if it is activated
C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
3)Open note pad copy and paste the following text:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ca,82,b8,55,d4,04,b5,cf,cc,5b,24,00
save the text as de.reg onto your desktop so you can find it.
- Double click on the de.reg on your desktop and say yes and add it to the registry.
- Click "Start" and go to "Run..."
Type in %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a and click "OK"
This will bring up the "Activate Windows" window.
- Check the option for "Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows" and click "Next"
Then click "Change Product Key" (don't enter any information on that screen)
Type in a product key, I mean your product key.
and click "Update"
- The activate Windows by phone window will reappear at this point, just JUST CLOSE THE WHOLE THING DOWN BY CLICKING "X" in the upper right hand corner
- Activate Windows by copying the following text into a new notepad and save it as up.reg on you desktop, once again so its easy to find.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ca,82,b8,55,d4,04,b5,cf,cc,5b,24,97
- Double click on up.reg on your desktop and say yes and add it to the registry.
- Ready to see if it worked
Click "Start"and go to "Run..."
Type in %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a and click "OK"
4) For those of you stuck in "limbo" there's a cheap way to run programs while windows is prompting you to activate (usually right after login)
Push Win+U to bring up utilities (and the narrator)
On either the narrator or the utilities control, click Help
Click Options | Internet Options...
Click the Privacy tab
Click Import
this will pull up a file browser from which you can run any program
locate the program you want to run (it often helps to select All Files under Files of type) then right-click on the .exe you want to run and select Open. NOTE: double-clicking will cause an error, you must right-click | Open.
1) How to bypass WPA (Windows Activation) on Windows XP. - by FittMunken
Tested on Windows XP Professional SP2 and Windows Server 2003 R2.
First, click "Run..." on your start menu, type "regedit" and press enter.
The Registry Editor opens up, and you are presented with a long list of keys on the left.
Browse through the list to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents.
(If you can't find this key, you're screwed!)
On the right, you should see a stringz value named OOBETimer.
This is the activation stuff. If you change it, Windows will change it back within a few seconds.
Whatever its value is, change it to FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD.
(At first I thought this was different for each machine/serial number, but it's always the same if windows is activated...LOL)
After you've changed it, right-click WPAEvents and choose "Permissions..."
A little window opens up with a list of user names. Click SYSTEM, and in the list below ("Permissions for SYSTEM") check every box under "Deny". Click OK to own windows. You don't even have to reboot lol.
If you're too slow windows might change it back, so just hit F5 to refresh and make sure it got saved.
If not, just try again. Microsoft owns for making it so easy to hack their software.
So, just keep on enjoying an activated version of windows. FittMunken over and out!
And if you need to download windows, here are a few places to get it:
You obviously need a bittorrent client, and you might as well make sure to download the best one!
www.utorrent.com owns all other bittorrennt clients. in fact, all other clients suck.
www.mininova.org
www.piratebay.org
www.2torrents.com
www.torrentleech.org
www.torrentbytes.net
www.powerbits.org
www.filelist.org
A good release is Microsoft.Windows.XP.Professional.SP2.Final.Integrated-PMM.English
It doesn't even require any activation. It's pre-release, but it's build 2600 so it's the same as final.
2)ONLY WORKS WITH SP1
- Go on regedit
- Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents
- go on OOBETimer and Change the last Value from 00 to 97.
- The activation screen shld appear.
- Then go on phone activation and type in 401111 for every box.
It should work (Until you install SP2, which resets it.)
To check if it is activated
C:\WINDOWS\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a
3)Open note pad copy and paste the following text:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ca,82,b8,55,d4,04,b5,cf,cc,5b,24,00
save the text as de.reg onto your desktop so you can find it.
- Double click on the de.reg on your desktop and say yes and add it to the registry.
- Click "Start" and go to "Run..."
Type in %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a and click "OK"
This will bring up the "Activate Windows" window.
- Check the option for "Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows" and click "Next"
Then click "Change Product Key" (don't enter any information on that screen)
Type in a product key, I mean your product key.
and click "Update"
- The activate Windows by phone window will reappear at this point, just JUST CLOSE THE WHOLE THING DOWN BY CLICKING "X" in the upper right hand corner
- Activate Windows by copying the following text into a new notepad and save it as up.reg on you desktop, once again so its easy to find.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\WPAEvents]
"OOBETimer"=hex:ca,82,b8,55,d4,04,b5,cf,cc,5b,24,97
- Double click on up.reg on your desktop and say yes and add it to the registry.
- Ready to see if it worked
Click "Start"and go to "Run..."
Type in %systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a and click "OK"
4) For those of you stuck in "limbo" there's a cheap way to run programs while windows is prompting you to activate (usually right after login)
Push Win+U to bring up utilities (and the narrator)
On either the narrator or the utilities control, click Help
Click Options | Internet Options...
Click the Privacy tab
Click Import
this will pull up a file browser from which you can run any program
locate the program you want to run (it often helps to select All Files under Files of type) then right-click on the .exe you want to run and select Open. NOTE: double-clicking will cause an error, you must right-click | Open.
# posted by David Low @ 2:28 PM 
