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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. |
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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
In message , micky
writes Is it still possible to activate Windows XP? The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. I think the answer is 'maybe'. Last time I did a virgin installation (some 6 months ago), at I couldn't do the activation. I tried from time-to-time for a few days - and was just about to do the phone-up activation (something I've never tried before), when suddenly the normal online activation worked. -- Ian |
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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 10:00:11 -0400, micky
wrote: Is it still possible to activate Windows XP? If you bought it legally it's yours. Windows XP is not sold as a service, it's YOUR software, unlike Win 10 (and maybe others). Check the license allows you to install it on however many PCs you need. Use Xpy to claim it as registered https://sourceforge.net/projects/xpy/ There is no reason why you should submit personal information to M$. They'll probably sell it. []'s The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. -- Don't be evil - Google 2004 We have a new policy - Google 2012 |
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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:59:01 +0100, Ian Jackson
wrote: In message , micky writes Is it still possible to activate Windows XP? The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. I think the answer is 'maybe'. Last time I did a virgin installation (some 6 months ago), at I couldn't do the activation. I tried from time-to-time for a few days - and was just about to do the phone-up activation (something I've never tried before), when suddenly the normal online activation worked. Same here. You just need to have all of your ducks in a row. It needs the SP3 load and IE8. Then you will get 134 or so updates the next time it calls home. At least that is the way it worked a few months ago. |
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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, on Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:59:01
+0100, Ian Jackson wrote: In message , micky writes Is it still possible to activate Windows XP? The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. I think the answer is 'maybe'. Last time I did a virgin installation (some 6 months ago), at [first] I couldn't do the activation. I tried from time-to-time for a few days - and was just about to do the phone-up activation (something I've never tried before), when suddenly the normal online activation worked. That's very strange. Maybe they were late paying their internet bill. Thanks and thanks, Shadow. |
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Is it still possible to activate Windows XP?
Ant wrote:
wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:59:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: In message , micky writes Is it still possible to activate Windows XP? The only CD I've found, if it comes to that, is for XP Pro and apparently that will require activation after installation. I think the answer is 'maybe'. Last time I did a virgin installation (some 6 months ago), at I couldn't do the activation. I tried from time-to-time for a few days - and was just about to do the phone-up activation (something I've never tried before), when suddenly the normal online activation worked. Same here. You just need to have all of your ducks in a row. It needs the SP3 load and IE8. Then you will get 134 or so updates the next time it calls home. At least that is the way it worked a few months ago. Another reason to slipstream for a Windows XP SP3 CD! Does it still take forever to find updates before downloading? Of course not. You'll remember, before WinXP EOL, a middle manager at Microsoft "promised to fix the Windows Update issue". It was a solemn promise, not a flippant remark while taking Ambien and using Twitter at 2AM in the morning. That's your guarantee of satisfaction. /s where the s stands for "sucks". ******* Go here. http://download.wsusoffline.net/ Download the ESR 9.2.4 version. http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsusoffline924.zip That should help you download a patch set for WinXP. That version doesn't have a WuPre file for WinXP, so doesn't have protection against Windows Update wheel spin. I would: 1) Install WinXP with the network unplugged. 2) Boot up WinXP and bring over your USB stick with a copy of the WsusOffline collection folder (prepared on a machine that has a working network connection). 3) In the client folder is an UpdateInstaller application which will patch up your system. The WsusOffline folder could be multiple gigabytes of stuff, and it's not something you download from Microsoft over dialup. The files actually come from Microsoft, and not from any WsusOffline server. The server only provides the scripts used for capture (and later UpdateInstaller). WinXp activation is likely to work better if you install IE8. It's possible that WsusOffline will install IE8 for you. If so, when you next connect the network, you can activate and check Windows Update in the very same session. And who knows, it might work. ******* On Windows 7, Wsusoffline Version 11.4 will install IE11. This is actually impressive, in that the IE11 installer normally requires a network connection (while it silently downloads patches without telling you what it is doing). One of the patches needed by IE11, is some DirectX content aimed at providing hardware acceleration for IE11. WsusOffline installs the pre-requisites first. That's what it looks like it's doing. After a reboot, it installs IE11 (even without a network connection!). And it can do that, because the prereqs are already installed. The reasons for using advanced versions of IE, this isn't a "vanity" issue. Installing IE11 is essential for pruning the supersedence tree for IE. It prevents wheel spin on Windows Update. In WinXP, the dependence on IE8 is not quite as great. I think at some point in the past, I had Windows Update coming back in 5 minutes with an update list, even while running IE6. So on WinXP, the installation of IE8 helps you get activated. After the system is activated, you could remove IE8 and go back to IE6 if you wanted. On Win7, the installation of IE11 prevents wheel spin in Windows Update. The "best case" response time on Windows Update, is about three minutes. You cannot expect a list in these OSes to appear in less time than that. Yesterday, a properly patched Windows 7 responded in 4 minutes 2 seconds. On Windows 10, some further pruning seems to have improved the performance. WU comes back a little faster there. As far as I know, they're all based on the same crusty concepts. 20 years of consistently bad implementation. And a lot of monkey business making jumbo patches, to defeat the non-scalable behavior of wuauserv and friends. Paul |
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