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- Even if the operating system was activated properly 

One of the downsides of the Microsoft anti-piracy program for the Windows platform is associatedwith the false positives generated by the Windows Genuine Advantage mechanism.  The WGA went live in July 2005, and according to Cori Hartje, director of the Microsoft Genuine Software Initiative, the tool processed in excess of 600 million unique operating system validations since that time.

In mid February 2007, Microsoft introduced an overhauling to the WGA mechanism following a preview made available back in November 2006. Along with the new installation experience for WGA Notifications, the visual redesign, and the revamped diagnostics pages, the most notable changes introduced to the mechanism involved a gray area for the Windows operating systems that it cannot clearly determine as either genuine or non-genuine.

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Well that’s it, my favourite file hoster is down, lucky i did change all my links to another file hoster a few weeks back when the troubles did start

Thanks to the PirateShare Team for providing the service, even if it was only a short time.

see below for the official statement from the webpage

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The latest VistaBoot tool has been released!

Read the full story at New Vista OEM Activation Hack – Vista Boot by gkend

Download the latest (20-6-07):
Vista Boot 7.0531

Another easy way to bypass Windows Genuine Advantage has been discoverd, this time with Linux.
“I just did this for a laugh and didn’t expect it to work” said mig5 the discoverer of the hack. He managed to validate an Ubuntu installation as a genuine copy of Microsoft Windows and get to the download page of Windows Defender, using IE4Linux and Wine. He made a video of the process which you can download from the below link.

How to do Video (9.5MB)

Ubuntu Forum Topic

By Keznews Mebmbers for Keznews Mebmers

Portable Apps Collection 2 by jottto2005
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With this article I will present you the work of jottto2005. He is creating AIOs (All in One), what makes his AIO special is that it contains some of the most popular application made for your pocket which can be run without any installation on your Hard Drive. He is outplaing other AIO creators by adding applications on demand, you can simply ask him for a application you would like to see in the AIO and he will add it for you.

The current ”Portable Apps Collection 2” comes with over 30 applications, supporting Windows 2000, XP and Vista. See below for some of the highlights:

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>>> the download posted (7.1087) is not official yet, on zonealarm.com you still get the old 7.0337 version and the latest beta is 7.1058.000. We don’t know when they will release the below download to the public.

Note: The versions below are the most recent and will work only on Vista 32bit

Operating System: Windows Vista (This Version is only for Vista NOT XP,ME,98se,98…)

Product Name: ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite

Software Version: 7.1.078(Vista)

Keygen key not working

Serials:

5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw80 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw81 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw82 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw83 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw84 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw85 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw86 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw87 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw88 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw89 or 5w0iu-paf4j-1j4q0-9vdc36-i8cw90

dbxj9-hmxd2-uiwet-2awnk0-6qp1k0

4SU68-7S3FD-T9SEI-R2QGFH-9V3M6N

B9BSS-GRIVU-E50JI-2S65VW-V91BG0

DBXJ9-HMXD2-UIWET-2AWNK0-6QP1K0

If no luck with the Serials, try to stop the timer:

Delete following files;

C:\ProgramData\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\zllictbl.dat
C:\Users\All Users\CheckPoint\ZoneAlarm\zllictbl.dat

Now the timer should stop or show 365 Days

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Microsoft Product Activation (MPA)
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Microsoft Product Activation (MPA) is an anti-piracy technology that is designed to help verify that the product is valid. MPA is an umbrella term for technology such as Windows Product Activation (WPA) in Microsoft Windows and Office Activation Wizard (OAW) in Microsoft Office.

MPA is designed to stop a form of piracy that is known as casual copying. Casual copying is the sharing of a single license for a product across multiple, unlicensed installations.

For example, a customer purchases a copy of Windows and installs it on a computer. Then, this customer loans the media to a neighbor, who installs it on a different computer. The second installation is not legitimate and MPA is designed to prevent that unlicensed use.

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By Keznews Mebmbers for Keznews Mebmers

Blue Task Manager for XP and Vista by Lsdmeasap
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“So, I hated the Ugly Green used in both Vista and Xp taskmanager. Not that it is often used, but it is just plain ugly! So I have fixed that! I love Blue, themes and just the color in general, So here you Have it A Blue TaskManager. Instructions Included on replacement of file.” Said Lsdmeasap in one of his posts.

It is the first time he did edit a file like this with Hex editor, and the results are just great as you can see from the images. Let’s hope he will come up with more in the near future.

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By Keznews Members for Keznews Members

This is the first article that is part of the mini series “By Keznews Members for Keznews Members” using my blog as platform to introduce software, themes, tutorials, applications, AIOs and other work created by Keznews/forum members.

In our forum we have some very active and creative minds which work on their own projects, some do skins & designs, others create applications, some simple batch files, and others are creating cracks etc. A lot of things going on and most members don’t know about it.

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Without any tweaking you can boost your XP or Vista start up time and overall system speed. Take a look at your notification area (on your desktop right side bottom) and you see most of the application that start during Windows Startup. How many of them do you use daily? Does Quick Time and Acrobat Reader need to search for updates daily?. Do you need Messenger right after start up?,…. More items you see there, slower your startup gets! Some items do not even have a try icon they run in the background and use your system resources without any reason.

I will present you 3 freeware applications that can help you to handle the start up items. All of them do use very less resources and have a big impact on your overall system speed. I have used them with XP and I am using them now with Vista. The first two, Autoruns and System Control Panel were designed for XP, however both run under Vista.

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