Re: XP Serial Number Questions
From: D.Currie (dmbcurrie.nospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/12/04
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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 22:25:13 -0600
It's hard enough to read the number when you're installing it, it's doubtful
someone could have casually read & remembered it if they happened to glance
at it.
Retail versions have the number hidden in the packaging; oem versions come
in sealed multipacks. So if you trust whoever you bought the oem version
from that they didn't copy down the number and use it, you should be fine.
"choro-nik" <choro-nik@tvcom.net> wrote in message
news:4EIad.38982$BI5.17988@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> That was my original thinking too but now that you have corroborated my
> original view, how can I ever be sure that the key for the OEM Win XP I
> bought recently has not been used before by someone else? After all the
> serial number was visible inside the shrink wrap. Shouldn't all such
> numbers be hidden from view until one breaks the seal?
> --
> choro-nik
> ********
> "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:2t12avF1qbgi6U1@uni-berlin.de...
>> No part of the serial number is on the CD. The differences are in the
>> version Windows -- OEM, retail, upgrade, etc., that will only recognize
>> the corresponding set of serial numbers. But other than that, the CDs are
>> interchangeable as far as the serial numbers are concerned.
>>
>> "choro-nik" <choro-nik@tvcom.net> wrote in message
>> news:8GEad.30263$ay5.18435@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>> Quite Simple. Some of those "characters" (numbers and/or letters) might
>>> be split up from the rest. So you have 2 groups of characters. One group
>>> might be a installation CD batch number. The second group might not in
>>> fact be on the CD at all . Or more likely there will be a whole range of
>>> thousands of combinations that have been assigned to that particular
>>> batch of CDs with your particular key being one of those possible
>>> combinations.
>>>
>>> It would thus be possible to burn, say a batch of 1,000 CDs with part/s
>>> of the fixed sectors of the "key" being the same while the 1,000 other
>>> sets of characters reserved for that particular batch being burnt onto
>>> the CD in another file or files. The key for your particular CD will be
>>> a combination of these two sets of characters.
>>> --
>>> choro-nik
>>> ********
>>> "bbford" <bbford@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:y2Ead.12996$Ia5.12321@edtnps89...
>>>> OK, then this is where I get confused.
>>>>
>>>> If the cd is installed with its serial number (the same serial number
>>>> that thousands of others have) and you use that same cd with its same
>>>> serial number and illegally install it into 10 other pc's.
>>>>
>>>> How does Microsoft know this and deny you your Windows updates?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Bruce Chambers" <bruce_a_chambers@h0tmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:ux6SR39rEHA.192@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Buford wrote:
>>>>>> Can someone tell me if all XP cd's have their own unique id number?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> No, they don't. If they did, they'd have to cost a lot more.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Bruce Chambers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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