Vista SP1 banned piracy cracking, activation mechanism detailed

Windows Vista SP1 banned piracy and cracking, activation mechanism detailed

Although the final official version of Windows Vista SP1 has not come yet, smart and worried users have been online upgraded by "cracking" Windows Update.

While watching Vista SP1 improve system performance and reliability, many users are also very concerned about the activation problem.

In fact, Microsoft does intend to massively block two of the most common forms of piracy in Vista SP1, while changing the way pirated reminders are used to push pirated detection patches.

First of all, Vista SP1 will remove the previous feature Lite (RFM), even if the detection of piracy does not disable the system function, but will send a reminder.

At the end of the 30-day activation grace period, users will see the following prompts when they log in:

Here Microsoft requires users to activate Vista immediately, or wait 15 seconds before choosing to activate later. Choose to activate now Microsoft will provide a variety of activation channels, the cancellation can still access the desktop, but the desktop wallpaper will be canceled, the background is set to black, while in the tray area in the form of bubble prompts to activate.

Even if the user chooses to ignore the reminder and change the wallpaper to their favorite picture, Vista will reset the desktop to black every one hours and continue with the reminder. Next, the user either endures a dark desktop and POPs bubbles, or activates the system.

Next, Vista SP1 will block two types of activation that are commonly used by pirated users: the OEM BIOS method and the timer adjustment method. The latter includes the time Stop method and the time extension method, the former has the software simulation method and the hardware Refresh method. There is no doubt that software emulation will be disabled, but Microsoft has not confirmed whether the hardware Refresh method will be disabled at the same time. The latter should still be in normal use, given the OEM issue.

Using the timer adjustment method to activate Vista users are immediately required to reactivate after installing VistaSP1, but there is a 15-day grace period using the OEM BIOS method, which is determined by Microsoft's OEM policy.

Of course, the soldiers to the block Prito, seemingly severe blocking measures is obviously impossible to completely eliminate piracy, and now there are some countermeasures.

Finally, Microsoft will start by the end of this month through Windows Update push an upgrade patch, can detect whether the user's VISTARTM/SP1 system using the OEM BIOS method and timer adjustment method to activate the system, the discovery will be the following dialog box to require repair:

So even if you don't install Vista SP1, be careful with patches in Windows Update, and don't install patches like Windows XP WGA.

Also need to point out that the patch will only continue to detect, will not block the piracy activation method. Of course, this is not to say that Microsoft will pass on pirated users, will later release a separate download for the removal of the piracy activation method, the future will be integrated together, directly through Windows Update to ban pirated users.