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Windows Activation: a 'Solution' to Windows piracy Does this product key remind you of anything? HQ6K2-QPC42-3HWDM-BF4KJ-W4XWJ This is probably the best-known Windows 98 product key. Many PC technicians and power users from late 90's have probably memorized it - I know I have. A nyone could install Windows 98, enter the above product key during the installation, and have a full version of Windows, as if they have bought a license.

Back then, Windows didn't have any system whatsoever to make sure a product key wasn't used more than once. They couldn't even prevent product key generators, which could spew out practically endless valid product keys. This, of course, is software piracy, and Microsoft didn't particularly like it - although one could argue that the freedom to install Windows for free did help Microsoft conquer more than 90% of the PC market. In any case, after the miserable failure that was Windows ME - and probably nobody wanted to pirate that piece of crap - Microsoft decided to do something about Windows piracy. The solution, which they first implemented it in Windows XP, was Windows activation.

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Now, beyond a valid product key, every Windows installation needed to communicate with Microsoft to become activated, either automatically through the internet or manually, with a telephone Windows activation. This Windows activation ties any given Windows product key with a particular PC.

If the same product key were reused on a different PC, the Windows activation would fail. How a Windows product key is tied to a particular PC There are three steps to Windows activation. First, during the Windows installation, the operating system creates a unique product ID from the product key. We can see our Windows product ID by pressing Win + Pause/Break. The second step for the Windows activation is the Hardware Identification (HWID). HWID is a unique number that is tied to our PC's hardware, and it is also calculated during the Windows installation.

Every component of our PC, from the CPU to the GPU to the Network Adapter, has a unique serial number. Windows runs a mathematical formula on each serial number and creates a hash, in a way that it is impossible to find the original serial number from the hash (a one-way hash). Imagenomic realgrain 2 3 2013 photoshop plugin flood free.

Between four and ten bits are used from each component's hash, depending on the part. Component Name Example Hash Value (#o of bits) Display Adapter 00010 (5) SCSI Adapter / SAS adapter 00011 (5) IDE Adapter / SATA Adapter 0011 (4) Network Adapter MAC Address (10) RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc) 101 (3) Processor Type 011 (3) Processor Serial Number 000000 (6) Hard Drive Device 1101100 (7) Hard Drive Volume Serial Number (10) CD—ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM / DVD-RW 010111 (6) 'Dockable' 0 (1) Hardware Hash version (version of algorithm used) 001 (3) Only internal PC components count, not peripherals, such as the monitor, keyboard/mouse, USB devices, etc. From all the above Hash values, through an algorithm, an 8bit HWID is created.

On Windows activation through the Internet, a 'handshake request' is sent to Microsoft. This request contains the product ID, the HWID, the activation technology version, and the request header data, with a request ID that ties all the information together.

Through the Windows activation, the product ID (which represents the unique product key) is tied to the particular hardware ID on Microsoft's servers. This prevents the product key to be reused for Windows activation on a different PC. The one-way hashing for the HWID guarantees our anonymity. It is impossible to identify our hardware components' serial numbers from the information that is sent to Microsoft. If the Windows activation is successful, the confirmation is sent back to our PC as a digital certificate, signed by Microsoft.

The telephone Windows Activation - to activate Windows without an internet connection - works similarly. The product ID and the HWID are combined to an 'Installation ID', which is translated into a 63 digit decimal number. We need to provide this number through our phone keypad, and the automated telephone system will give us a confirmation ID to manually add for the Windows activation. What happens to the Windows activation when we change hardware? The check for the Product ID and Hardware ID doesn't happen only during the installation. At each login, Windows recalculates the HWID. It then compares the current HWID with the HWID on Microsoft's servers, to see that it is running on the same or similar hardware where it was activated.