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When building... Do you buy Windows?
Tiffanys:
What new ways? The boot loader is completely undetectable.
JoonasTo:
Never pirated a windows.
Never bought one either.
100+ installations of the same Win98/2000/XP upgrades based one that ages old copy Win 95 ;D
My schools/unis/companies provide them.
Bob2004:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on August 19, 2013, 03:31:51 AM ---What new ways? The boot loader is completely undetectable.
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I actually had it fail the other day. I have no idea how or why, but suddenly I got a popup message telling me I was running a pirate version of windows, the desktop background went black, etc, and every time I logged in I got messages telling me I needed to purchase a license. Standard Windows anti-piracy stuff - so something, somehow, had detected the bootloader, and it then failed validation.
I uninstalled then reinstalled the bootloader, ran Windows validation manually, and it's not happened since. I've no idea what happened, or how, but the bootloader obviously isn't entirely foolproof. It is nearly perfect, though - since that is the one time it's failed me.
Tiffanys:
Well... I've ran it since 2009 and nothing's came up. Then again, I'm on Vista Ultimate rather than 7. 7 wasn't due out for like 2-3 months when I built this rig and I don't use an OS until its been out 6 months anyways and well, I wasn't about to wait 8 months. :P
lololitas:
--- Quote from: Bob2004 on August 19, 2013, 07:13:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on August 19, 2013, 03:31:51 AM ---What new ways? The boot loader is completely undetectable.
--- End quote ---
I actually had it fail the other day. I have no idea how or why, but suddenly I got a popup message telling me I was running a pirate version of windows, the desktop background went black, etc, and every time I logged in I got messages telling me I needed to purchase a license. Standard Windows anti-piracy stuff - so something, somehow, had detected the bootloader, and it then failed validation.
I uninstalled then reinstalled the bootloader, ran Windows validation manually, and it's not happened since. I've no idea what happened, or how, but the bootloader obviously isn't entirely foolproof. It is nearly perfect, though - since that is the one time it's failed me.
--- End quote ---
happened to me several times now, but it's easily resolvable. I actually own a legal copy of windows 7 but it kinda was lieing 1300km away at the time I reinstalled my main rig
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