Re: XP Serial Number Questions
From: choro-nik (choro-nik_at_tvcom.net)
Date: 10/12/04
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Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:43:09 GMT
It was merely a theoretical assumption. Obviously I am the only user of my
OEM version as I managed to register and activate it with no problem. But it
is obviously something that one has to be aware of when buying the software.
-- choro-nik ******** "D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:2t14hmF1qpm1oU1@uni-berlin.de... > 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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