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Old January 4th 18, 12:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Java Jive
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Default XP Validation

On 04/01/2018 03:03, Diesel wrote:
Java Jive news Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:57:29 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

So I repeat, cut the bull**** and stick to the facts.


I didn't provide any.


About 90% of your previous post was bull**** that I had to snip.

Who said anything about using Windows update to get the updates?


I said that "the rebuilt installation will not get any updates,
not even the ones originally targeting XP" and that remains true.


Except that it isn't true.


A new XP build will not receive updates except by Administrator
intervention to install & launch some seperate tool not included in a
standard XP build. That's the meaning of what I wrote, as quoted above,
and it's true.

What you wrote above was based on the fact that you incorrectly
assumed you had to use Windows Update from within the host OS to get
updates.


It's based upon the fact that by default, that is unless you choose to
specifically disable automatic updates, Windows XP installed before
end-of-support would automatically update itself without requiring any
human intervention other than logging on, and agreeing to a reboot when
required, but now that end-of-support has passed, this will no longer
happen.

You don't. .... subject.


[snip more self-opinionated irrelevant bull****]

Okay, so for your test, the key on the product sticker was the
one used to load it previously, vs the SLIC key being used in
it's place as it would originally have been if it had been a name
brand PC that was preloaded from factory.


NO IT WASN'T! Stop making an ass of yourself, if you possibly
can, clear your head for just a second or two of all those
unfounded ideas of your own self-importance, and in those few
fleeting seconds actually bother to read exactly what I wrote,
which was:


[snip more self-opinionated irrelevant bull****]

On 02/01/2018 23:31, Java Jive wrote:
They will only re-activate old 'legit' ones, as long as they are
on the same or similar equipment. How similar the equipment
actually has to be is, I grant, a matter of debate but in tests
I did same make different model of laptop worked, but home built
desktop unsurprisingly wouldn't work with a key from a laptop.


Note: SAME MAKE DIFFERENT MODEL OF LAPTOP WORKED! An XP product
key from the sticker of a laptop that had died (and that I had
cannibalised for parts to repair a second one of the same model,
which is still working now, running XP, activated according to the
product key on its own sticker, as it should be) was applied
successfully to a third that had a Vista product key sticker, and
this also is still working now, running XP, activated.

So an XP product key from one model of laptop was applied
successfully to a different model of laptop that came with a Vista
product key sticker.


That doesn't mean anything in the context of our hilarious
discussion, though.


Quote:
Okay, so for your test, the key on the product sticker was the
one used to load it previously, vs the SLIC key being used in


So what the above means, quite simply, without any of your bull****e is
that you were wrong!

[Another big snip of bull****, that at a cursory glance looked
sufficiently irrelevant that I didn't bother to read it further]


I didn't provide any bull****. What I wrote concerning the isos and
what you can do with them isn't uncommon knowledge to techs I know.


It's irrelevant to the discussion, because:

:-( It doesn't illuminate either the OP's problem as original stated
when I replied (he's since added more info that makes my reply, along
with many others, considerably less relevant anyway).

What you wrote concerning XP isn't of any real use to the OP.


:-( As demonstrated by my test, this claim is incorrect. My advice
would most probably have worked for him, probably at minimal expense,
and all your irrelevant bull**** since trying to pull rank rather than
actually solve his problem, doesn't alter that fundamental fact.
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