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keep XP updated until 2019
Ammammata wrote:
(what-ever) I posted the full details of this hack back on May 22 in a thread with the subject: "A few registry key entries will allow XP to update itself via Windows Update until the year 2019" For those that are too afraid or simply don't know about how this works - there is something that is really just an alternate version of XP-SP3 that Micro$haft calls "POSReady 2009". POSReady 2009. Nobody in a thousand years searching for XP related updates or hotfixes would ever think to search for "POSReady 2009". Very good move for Macro$haft to call it POSReady 2009 instead of "XP for POS 2009" or some such. POS means "Point of Service". It's what cash registers and bank teller computers are running. I think ATM's and gas pump machines too (as if they couldn't be running DOS). POS2009 came out in 2009 (I think that's when SP3 came out for XP). It will have full security updates for 10 years (hence EOL in 2019). POSReady 2009 is exactly the same as XP-SP3, but with a few trivial differences - such as no help files, DotNet installed by default, no Movie Maker, etc. You get the idea. Micro$haft will tell you that POS2009 and XP-SP3 are two different products. Of course they are! You take an XP CD, slap a new label on it, give it a new SKU or product number, -CREATE A SPECIAL LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR IT- and voila - you have a different product. Yes - the only real difference is the license agreement. And who here really pays attention to that stuff anyways? So the security updates and fixes that Milkro$oft will be making for POS2009 for the next 5 years are fully compatible with every XP-SP3 system out there. Meekro$oft will tell you that POS2009 updates ARE NOT INTENDED FOR XP - of course they're not! Not if Macro$haft had it's way and was in control of your computer! But of course you all realize that saying "not intended" is not the same thing as saying "they won't work". =============== A simple registry tweak is enough for WU to show the latest POSReady updates on Windows XP. This method has been tested and works on any XP build. Add the following registry keys (INF Format): HKLM,"System\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbe dded\ProductVersion","FeaturePackVersion",0x000000 00,"SP3" HKLM,"SYSTEM\WPA\WEPOS","Installed",0x10001,0 HKLM,"SYSTEM\WPA\WES","Installed",0x10001,0 HKLM,"SYSTEM\WPA\POSReady","Installed",0x10001,1 Or use notepad to copy the following and save as .reg file and run it: ========== Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion] "FeaturePackVersion"="SP3" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WEPOS] "Installed"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WES] "Installed"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady] "Installed"=dword:00000001 =========== Restart your computer, and make sure WindozeUpdate service is running. You will see there are updates for you to install! And your XP PC will continue to recieve MS patches until the year 2019. This is for 32-bit XP. There is a different method for 64-bit version of XP (by spoofing Windows 2003 server). To be on the safe side, you should probably be running XP-SP3 (but who wouldn't be?) and you might want to select "manual" updating and have a look at the updates and DO NOT EVER download anything called "WGA" or "Windows Genuine disAdvantage" if anything like that ever comes down the pipe. |
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