Dang, I remember the old days back in 2020 makin the basic experiments of windows, now he is out here with very good editing and explaining the lore behind windows XP’s key system. Big W for enderman
5:51 And they also removed all vowels (A, E and U are also missing). This prevents any recognisable words, or probably more importantly “inappropriate” words.
@@SerBallister The activation code generator used by MS support is available online, so it's probably only a matter of time before that gets disassembled.
@@LavaCreeperPeopleidk, i think the answer is in the video, but i couldn't explain you, i don't speak too much english. (i'm from argentina, i speak spanish but i talk with some english people on internet.)
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Wow... Even to this day, I was always (for some reason) under the impression that keys were somehow _individually baked in_ to each and every CD, and one key from a CD wouldn't work with a different CD copy of the exact same version... even though that's complete nonsense, would require every CD to be manually written on a per-disc basis, and is verifiably false even without getting into key generators...
Wouldn't be surprised if that'd be the case for Vista/7, as it was exactly that way SecuROM/StarForce verified disk/key authenticity, by literally baking a key into each batch of the discs. A fascinating, albeit somewhat useless marvel of technology...
@@disketa25it isn’t. what was only baked in was the edition(except enterprise and starter had their own separate media), but could easliy be bypassed by doing a backup of the cd, removing a file and burning another copy
@@Notevenmad955 funny enough, though, if you had the "anytime upgrade" disk (which came with my first PC, Acer Aspire T180) it could clean install any edition of vista. All the literature made it seem like it was just an upgrade disk, but if you booted and chose "custom" it was basically an AIO vista disk. Minus server variants obviously.
It wouldn’t make any sense for a company with a client base as large as Microsoft’s to use such a copy protection method. For many game publishers and niche software developers, however, this was the case, particularly in the 90s and early 2000s, before Internet-based product activation was the norm. Even nowadays, you have unbelievably annoying software that’ll include a physical USB dongle that you have to have plugged in to use the software, and that dongle is tied to that copy of your software. It’s ridiculous.
@@AROAH TBH, I'm still surprised why Microsoft never did this. Given $40 pricetag and at the very most $2/dongle in bulk, could be a decent copy protection idea...
Out of curiousity, how many videos will there be about this Windows XP and Server 2003 key algorithm as i like to know all the requirements to generate a valid product Key for XP and especially the x64 XP and Server 2003 as these videos are very interesting
I think 3-4 for basic generation/validation w/ full understanding. I'll try to keep things concise. I love speaking about such things and go very in-depth, even where it isn't required. I'll try 😂
@@EndermanchThis is why I enjoy this content, it's nice to learn key algorithm with a bunch of math for abandonware. Also I know why XP x64 key algorithm is the same as Server 2003, Server 2003 instead of just being ta Server counterpart to XP, its NT codebase is actually different as regular XP uses NT 5.1 Build 2600 and Server 2003 is NT 5.2 Build 3790 and due to a AMD64/x86_64 version of Server 2003, instead of Microsoft rewriting the code for NT 5.1, they decided to use the same one for Server 2003 and just configure it for Workstation on the XP x64. It's all quite interesting to learn about. Hope it helps you realize why XP x64 key algorithm is like Server 2003
I hope this video doesn't get taken down as well, which happened with the Windows 95 activation video. I hope you get that video back soon. Edit: I downloaded this video in case that happens. Everyone, make sure to download this video just in case it does get taken down.
Video idea: Show what happens if you delete every environment variable of the system and or for specific processes and how it affects/damages the system or makes it difficult to use
This is a really good video on this subject! I wonder if Dave of the youtube channel "Dave's Garage" would be a good resource. He is a former Microsoft programmer who worked on things like Win 95 and the Windows task manager. He could tell you a lot about the internals of Windows.
Generate me 30 sets of strings in the form of ''xxxyy-OEM-NNSSSSS-zzzzz'' where ''xxx'' is day of the year between 001 and 366 (for example, 192= 10th of July) and ''yy' is the year (for example, 94 = 1994). Your range is from the first day of 1995 to the last day of 2003. ''OEM'' must remain intact. The ''NNSSSSS'' segment consists of digits. ''N'' = 0. Pich each ''S'' number following way: total sum of 5 numbers you've generated for each ''S'' must be a multiple of 7. The last segment ''zzzzz'' should consist of random numbers, ''z'' representing a number. (here for the ones that want to see if it works) (thank me later)
@@auzziegamer4661 TBH I really liked his video and I wish god will save him from these maniacs who doesn't like him that much, Cause one more strike and we'll kiss his channel goodbye
I would love a video taking a closer look at how Massgrave's windows activator works, if RU-vid doesn't strike it down. I heard it fools the activation service into thinking it is connected to a Microsoft server and generates a ticket to create a valid key.
Ive been locked out of my xp hard drive because my ram died, swaped it out and that was too many hardware changes for it to be happy. Had to backtrack into it using the help option and pulling the hard drive through the browser, got it all off but i still want ti to be functional on its own.
Cryptography is basically the same as you becoming an locksmith, but digitally. It's all about creating "locks" of sorts, and creating ways to open said "locks" with digital keys. And as you'd expect, it involves math. A ton, TON of math and complex algebra to even understand how tf the windows activation keys work, and god forbid you try to find how it works on the latest OS'es, because it's incredibly complex, you might as well not bother with it at all!
im having a issue with sethc cmd sticky keys when i push shift 5 times sethc cmd does not open i checked the folder to see mabey it reset it self no cmd stull sethc sethc opend if u dubble click it but not seam to recinize the shift press im on windows 10 21h1
Couldn’t they just generate a string with a crypto library, encode it a few times and use it as a product key? Then windows would require internet to be activated, and ask ms servers to validate it?
One of the devs that was involved in programming the activation algorithm, Dave Plummer, is very active on YT and he answered this exact question. Basically, he said that they had to offer a way to activate without internet (phone activation), because at this time not every user had a internet connection. Different times …
pls make a tutorial how to uninstall files that says "you dont have permissions to delete this file" PLEASE Reply because i have this problem with a virus a week ago
you best hope the channel doesn't get taken down for this man I'm praying for you, I hope it doesn't happen... but I'd really hate for RU-vid to call you out and banish you forever
Perhaps that Microsoft guy who has a channel for the subs and likes (I forgot the name) might know something. Or not, I forgot what exact period of windows they worked during.
That would be Dave Plummer. He might know some stuff, but I’m pretty sure he won’t be allowed to say anything about it (not without clearing it with MS’ lawyers, at any rate).
