IETester
IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista.
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1.6.2008 KMS method to activate your Vista
cnewton report this how to. Have you guys tried this. Does it actually work?
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4.12.2006 How To Activate Office 2007 Trials
Thanks to sushantvirdi for this how to. Yes after some researching i finally found a way to activate the trials offered by Microsoft on their Website....
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2.5.2007 Paradox activate + WGA for 32bit Vista
Thanks to shudogg for this post in our forum. shudogg wrote: This is the best Windows Vista Crack I have found. It is by Paradox, and some of you may have seen it in Pantheon's Vista Ultimate release.
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23.4.2007 How to activate Windows 7 RC build 7100
You can complete installation of windows 7 by leaving product key filed blank and enjoy Windows 7 for 30 days maximum before it gets expiry. The only way to activate windows 7 Pre Beta is by using product key for Windows Vista beta or RC edition.
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1.5.2009 How to activate Windows Vista Ultimate for 180 days
Thanks to soulplane who report this crack method in
our forum. The method is very similar to the as we report about in
Next Vista 2099 Time crack. In the crack is short "SCREENSHOTs TUTORIAL".
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23.1.2007 How to Activate Windows 7 Beta 1 Build 7000 x86 and x64
How to Activateactivate windows 7 beta 1 build 7000 x86 and x64? Try this - Microsoft windows 7 activation ver 1.0 by wocarson.
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29.12.2008 Hack to Activate and Switch Window in Windows 7 By Mouse Over Hover Without Click
When there are many windows open on desktop of Windows 7, normally users will click on another window in order activate the window into front or foreground and switch to the task or window.
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19.5.2009 KMS Crack Method to Activate Windows Vista Business or Enterprise Edition
If you intend to activate Windows Vista against a KMS server (Enterprise or Business edition only), but having a hard time to find a working KMS (Key Management Service) server that is public available on the Internet, its possible to install and set up a spoofed KMS host. This tutorial is a complete guide to properly activate your Windows Vista with your own local KMS server with pre-built and pre-installed activated Windows Vista KMS as VMWare virtual appliance image, without the need to install a KMS yourself.
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13.12.2006 Permanently Activate Windows Vista by Skip Activation with Patched TimerStop.sys Crack
Hackers are going all out to crack Windows Vista activation procedure which is enhanced by Software Protection Platform (SPP).
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20.12.2006 RemoveWAT or Chew-WGA Bypass Activate Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 Forever
Despite already has perfect and reliable Windows 7 activation crack based on royalty-OEM mechanism, hackers have managed to come out with a new activation crack method as an alternative to BIOS loader and OEM BIOS mod, which effectively bypass the activation requirement of the installed Windows 7 system, by removing and disabling Windows Activation Technologies (WAT).
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16.11.2009 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Security Tab Fixer for Windows XP - Activate Security Tab Under File, Folder Property Menu
Unlike Windows Vista & Windows 7, Window XP do not show Security tab under file or folder properties dialogue box.
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28.6.2009IETester Helps You Test Your Site
Sarah Perez:
IETester is a free web browser specifically designed for testing web
sites in Internet Explorer including IE 8 beta, IE 7, IE 6, IE 5.5 on both XP and Vista. Like any web browser, IETester has the usual forward and back
buttons, refresh, stop, home, and favorite buttons, but it also has a special feature that allows you to launch new tabs which render the web site in
different versions of IE. With IE8's public beta just around the corner, web site owners need to verify that their sites are going to display
properly in the new browser, which runs in standards-compliant mode by default. You can download
IETester for free (donations accepted) from
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31.05.2008IE Automatic Component Activation (Changes to IE ActiveX Update)
Pete LePage: Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users
to click to activate before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the click to
activate requirement in Internet Explorer. Because of this, we're removing the click to activate behavior from Internet Explorer!
Its important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for developers creating
new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require click to activate will
no longer require the control to be activated. Theyll just work.
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08.11.2007IE Update to Disable "Click to Activate"
This is a preview of the update that will be available in April 2008.
If you don’t recall, in April 2006, we made a change to
how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to “click to activate” before they could
interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas Technologies inc, removing the “click to activate”
requirement in Internet Explorer.
"This change will require no modifications to existing pages, and no new actions for developers
creating new pages," LePage said in a post to Microsoft's IE blog. "We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is
updated, all pages that currently require 'click to activate' will no longer require the control to be activated. They'll just work."
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13.12.2007Activation problems delay sales during iPhone 3G premiere
Customers at Apple Stores across the country were told to wait, as it appeared that Apple's iTunes system it is using to activate the iPhones on
AT&Ts network crashed...
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11.07.2008DVD Jon Activates iPhone
Jon Johansen (DVD Jon) has
posted a
method that allows users to
take a new iPhone and activate
it without connecting to AT&T
servers or supplying any
personal information.
The method allows users
take an iPhone and activate it
to allow iPod and Wifi
functionality, but without
signing up for mobile
telephone service with AT&T.
This has also be
accomplished by
cancelling
the AT&T service in the
first few days after
activation.
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04.07.2007iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones problematic
BetaNews correspondents in Maryland and Michigan are seeing first-hand problems as a result of significant system outages affecting both AT&T and
iTunes. Many buyers still can't activate their phones...
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11.07.2008Apple Preps Macs for iPhone
Apple released an update for
iTunes on Friday in
preparation for the iPhone.
Version 7.3 allows the user to
activate their iPhone service
through the application...
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29.06.2007Microsoft: 10 Vista Activations
Spotted this over at Bit-Tech
earlier today:
"A Microsoft
spokesman... told us that
Windows Vista will not require
a system re-activation unless
the hard drive and one other
component is changed. This
means that enthusiasts will be
able to swap CPUs, memory and
graphics cards out without any
worry about having to
re-activate with MS, either on
the internet or by phone.
Should you change the
hard drive and another piece
of hardware - for example for
a major upgrade such as a
motherboard change that
requires a re-installation -
Microsoft will allow you to
re-activate up to 10 times.
You will not, however, be able
to have more than one machine
activated
concurrently."
This could pose some serious
problems for enthusiasts that
are constantly switching rigs
or components around. Although
Microsoft reserves the right
to allow more than 10
activations per copy, the
bit-tech folks believe keeping
a base 'activated' image of
Vista might save some
headaches down the road.
Update: Yes,
the article is rather vague
but does raise some
interesting issues. Most
importantly, what does
Microsoft consider a
re-activation to be? According
to the article you wont have
to 're-activate' a copy of
Vista unless you change the
hard drive and an
additional component. If I
simply reformat my existing
Vista PC and run the
activation wizard, will I have
used up one of my ten
activations?
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26.10.2006Microsoft to launch test build of IE refresh In December
Back in April 2006, we made a change to how Internet Explorer handled embedded controls used on some webpages. Some sites required users to
“click to activate” before they could interact with the control. Microsoft has now licensed the technologies from Eolas, removing the
“click to activate” requirement in Internet Explorer. Because of this, were removing the “click to activate” behavior from
Internet Explorer! It’s important (and cool) to note that this change will require no modifications to existing webpages, and no new actions for
developers creating new pages. We are simply reverting to the old behavior. Once Internet Explorer is updated, all pages that currently require
“click to activate” will no longer require the control to be activated. They’ll just work.
So you’re probably
wondering when we are going to release this update? The first chance will be with an optional preview release, called the Internet Explorer Automatic
Component Activation Preview, available in December 2007 via the Microsoft Download Center. Additionally this change will be made part of the next
pre-release versions of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows XP SP3. After giving people enough time to prepare for this change, we’ll roll this
behavior into the IE Cumulative Update in April 2008, and all customers who install the update will get the change.
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09.11.2007iTunes, activation outages are rendering new and old iPhones inoperable
UPDATED BetaNews correspondents in Maryland and Michigan are seeing first-hand problems as a result of significant system outages affecting
both AT&T and iTunes. Many buyers still can't activate their phones hours later...
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12.07.2008Run KMS on Server 2008, and which keys to use when activating Server 2008
Michael Greene: The documentation for volume activation 2.0 has been updated today for Server 2008. You can find it here:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=75674 Running KMS on
Server 2008 is functionally very similar to running it on Vista RTM. You leverage slmgr.vbs to bring the service online and then clients find
the server based on the DNS srv record. BTW, Server 2008 KMS can be run within a virtual environment.
If you want to know
which volume license keys to use when activating new machines running Server 2008, see page 19 in the Planning Guide and the
FAQ. You only need to put one key in your KMS, and it
will handle requests from both Vista and Server 2008. There are separate keys, and unique keys based on which version of server you need to
activate. Before you get excited - this is much easier to understand than it might first seem. Simply decide the "top" version
of Server 2008 you might install and then use that MKS key to activate the service on a 2008 server. All versions in groups below that version
will also activate off that key. The groups are simple...
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29.02.2008Want to Test Vista? Better Act
Fast
Microsoft UK .NET platform
product manager Ian Moulster
wrote in a post to his
personal Web log that the
company will cut access to
Windows Vista Beta 2 on
Friday. He recommended that
users start their download and
activate Vista as soon as
possible...
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30.06.2006Microsoft releases activation exploit detection update
Microsoft has released an update for Windows Vista designed to detect activation exploits that bypass product activation and that interfere with usual
Windows operation. This update is tagged as KB940510.
According to Microsoft "when the update is installed, no functionality of your
operating system will be affected. If no exploits are detected, the update silently exits. If exploits are detected, you will be provided a link to a
Web site that describes how you can remove the exploits. When the exploits are removed, you may be asked to use a valid product key to activate your
copy of Windows. If you do not want to remove the exploits, Windows may disable the exploits and then ask you to use a valid product key to activate
Windows."
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27.02.2008TiVo Owners Uncover Storage Hack
Owners of Series3
high-definition TiVos will
soon be able to expand the
amount of programming they can
store on the digital video
recorder using an external
Serial ATA hard drive. While
the SATA ports have been on
the TiVo since the beginning,
a hack to activate them only
surfaced over the weekend...
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08.05.2007Microsoft to Lock Pirates Out of Vista
Microsoft said Wednesday that
it plans to clamp down hard on
piraters of its
next-generation operating
systems, crippling both
Windows Vista and Windows
Server "Longhorn" if
users fail to activate their
copies within 30 days...
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04.10.2006Microsoft brings back automatic ActiveX
Microsoft is to remove a feature from Internet Explorer that required users to activate certain interactive features on a website. Prior to April
2007, the features functioned without any user interaction. The changes were made in an effort to circumvent a patent owned by Eolas and the
University of California.
Microsoft agreed in August to pay $521m to settle the patent dispute. "Microsoft has now licensed the
technologies from Eolas, removing the click to activate requirement in Internet Explorer," said Pete LePage, a senior product manager at
Microsoft, on the companys IE Blog.
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12.11.2007SP1 brings with it a softer, gentler, naggier WGA
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Windows Vista SP1 brings with it a new tweaked version of the WGA (Windows Genuine Advantage) anti-piracy scheme. How does
this look to the end user?
Check out the complete SP1 WGA gallery
here.
Currently Vista offers two different user experiences to those considered to be running non-genuine
installations of Vista <...> As of SP1, both these states are gone and if a system is considered to be non-genuine it will enter what I can call a nag
state. In this state users will see:
- A nag screen to activate at logon that cannot be dismissed for 15 seconds.
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Every hour the desktop background is switched to black (it can be changed back, but after an hour its set to black again).
- Activation
dialogs and balloon dialogs appear regularly.
- Optional Windows Updates arent delivered.
So, instead of losing
functionality, the user is nagged to activate...
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10.02.2008Microsoft Releases WGA Bypass Tool to OEMs
With the introduction of
Windows Genuine Advantage
(WGA), a computer must be
validated as genuine prior to
receiving security patches
from Windows Update. Windows
must first be activated for
the validation tool to run,
however most system builders
do not activate computers on
behalf of the end user. This
poses a problem for system
builders who want to sell
systems pre-patched with
updates but not enable
automatic updates.
The
System
Builder Bypass tool
(sbbypass.exe) will allow
system builders to download
and install critical updates
on new PCs without the
requirement to activate or
validate. Download the System
Builder Bypass tool. Need to
be member of OEM system
builder site.
The
System Builder Bypass tool is
to be used to assist system
builders with building a new
PC, and thus requires sysprep
to be running in factory mode.
An internet connection is
required to download critical
updates.
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18.10.2006Microsoft to launch test build of Internet Explorer refresh in December
Following its
August settlement of a long-standing patent
dispute with Eolas, Microsoft is readying a refresh of its Internet Explorer (IE) browser that will remove an interim Click to Activate control
setting.
Microsoft is planning to make available for download in December to interested customers
an optional
preview test version of IE browser called the Internet Explorer Automatic Component Activation Preview. This version will eliminate the Click
to Activate control that Microsoft instigated in April 2006 in order to alleviate potential infringement on Eolas patents. Users will be able to get
the preview via a standalone download from the Microsoft Download Center. It also will be built into the next pre-release versions of Windows Vista
Service Pack (SP) 1 and Windows XP SP3, Microsoft officials said, via a posting on November 8 to the IE Team Blog.
Microsoft is
planning to deliver to all customers who install the update the final version of the refreshed IE release in April 2008 as part of an IE Cumulative
Update.
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09.11.2007iPhone Activation and Syncing Video
Besides announcing rate plans
today, Apple
has
also posted a video
demonstrating how to activate
and sync the iPhone.
The iPhone is activated
through iTunes. Activation
works for both existing and
new AT&T customers, and allows
users to transfer their
existing phone number to the
iPhone.
The syncing
portion of the video
demonstrates how to sync email
accounts, address, safari
bookmarks and more...
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