"Dan" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 12:07:29 -0500, "Stinger"
wrote:



Service pack 1 looked for known pirated keys, and disabled systems it
found
with them.

Not true. Nothing was "disabled". It just would not install SP1.
The system would continue to run. You could then change your key to
an "unknown pirated key", and then install SP1.

It's very likely SP2 does this as well, and is probably more
sophisticated at determining whether or not a serial number is bogus.

No, in fact quite the opposite. Microsoft has taken the other
approach, as they realized it's better to get *all* systems patched,
legal or not.

I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out how I know these
things......... :-).

Dan


Your mileage may vary -- I know it killed the "FCKW -- " key, and had some
friends that had their computers "hung up" in the process of installing the
service pack who had to use a boot disk to recover files.

As for SP2, that was speculation, as we're "legal."

-- Stinger