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Old January 2nd 18, 03:01 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Diesel
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Default XP Validation

Paul news Dec 2017 11:16:22 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

FreeMan wrote:
Today I started my laptop and there is no mention of Validation
required.

What's up ?


As a Leet Haxor, you've probably already looked up
what KMS and VLK are, what server one of those
contacts every X months to re-validate. And so on...

And to find out about that stuff, you must already be
a member of the (appropriate) forum :-/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume_licensing

Your box contacted the "thing" mentioned in the
last paragraph of the article.

Paul


They don't require activation, they don't require access to validate
the key they have. Once installed with the key, you're good to go for
as long as you want to run the machine. Swap out whatever hardware
you like, whenever you like, short of the mainboard (you can do that
too if you're willing to remove some registry keys beforehand) so you
don't BSOD on reboot with the new board, but, you will not be asked
to validate or re-activate the key. VLK just doesn't work that way.

On later editions of Windows; beyond XP, things did change a little
but, but on XP, what I wrote applies.

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