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[The King of Kwangju]

Unless you read this:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/07/28/microsoft_genuine_ad.html

Go quickly while it still works.

[SuperHero]

I saw a number of cracks on various bit torrent networks, but I haven't tried them out.

[ulsanchris]

anybody try this out yet?

[Giant]

There is a real simple way of disabling the "Validation Tool" thing.

Just go to IE and click on tools, then "Manage Add-Ons", find
"Windows Genuine Advantage" and disable it. Then restart IE.

Thats it, just carry on updating and ignore the popup that its disabled.

[Derrek]

Windows media encoder no longer encodes video tracks below WM 9. They want users to have legit updatable copies of XP, or they can't watch video. That's the future goal, anyway. They have consistently made that program WORSE. It's much less user-friendly.

[Wrench]

The validation thing was cracked by hackers in 24 hours. Its BS.

[Industrial Strength]

[ulsanchris]

i did. I disabled it and then went to the ling to try the beta version of ie7 but the link didn't work.

[ulsanchris]

disabling the thing didn't help me install the IE7 beta. ohwell.
I like mozilla and firefox,.

[The King of Kwangju]

It only works on the Windows Update site/app - the one that scans your computer and tells you what needs to be updated. Critical updates (ie: security holes) will be given to everyone, but "non-essential" (ie: things that make your computer run better) ones will require authentication.

I thought this was a pretty clean hack - half a line of javascript in the address bar knocks out 1000's of hours of programming by disabling the activex thing that runs the check.

Not only that, I found it on boingboing, the most popular blog on the internet. I suspect it won't be long before it is fixed.

[Giant]

[Giant]

[Industrial Strength]