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ThePurpleBanana

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Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if there any ill effects of installing service pack 2 on a copied version of Windows XP?

Thanks,
TPB.
 
ThePurpleBanana said:
Hi Everyone,

Does anyone know if there any ill effects of installing service pack 2 on a copied version of Windows XP?

Thanks,
TPB.
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As far as I know you can't do it.

In the middle of the installation SP2 will recognize that you have an illegal copy of windows based on the serial number indentification and will terminate installation giving you a screen about

"whether you have a copy of Windows a copyright law?"

unless you do some heavy banking on this computer or stock transactions (which you shouldn't do on illegal copy) where loopholes in Windows XP can be exploited you don't need SP2.

oh BTW some games require SP2 drivers

Cheers
 
Re: Re: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Question

AstroTrain said:
As far as I know you can't do it.

In the middle of the installation SP2 will recognize that you have an illegal copy of windows based on the serial number indentification and will terminate installation giving you a screen about

"whether you have a copy of Windows a copyright law?"

unless you do some heavy banking on this computer or stock transactions (which you shouldn't do on illegal copy) where loopholes in Windows XP can be exploited you don't need SP2.

oh BTW some games require SP2 drivers

Cheers
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thats not true, guy does not know what he is talking about.

Microsoft Stated that the only blacklisted keys in SP2 Final Version will be the ones that were previous blocked in SP1 they felt it was better to let the pirated copys to update instead of having them get infected.

So if you copy worked with SP1 you should be able to update to SP2.

Microsoft does not publish what keys were blocked in SP1.

you can stop worrying if your copy works if you just purchased Windows XP.
 
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