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Developer Preview, can we bypass the activation?

I would really like to stop the pc from automatically restarting.

Why your computer is restarting? don't thing that activatin has something to do with that, maybe the windows update is restarting your computer?! plese say more about your problem!

darkrainx2 said:
Why your computer is restarting? don't thing that activatin has something to do with that, maybe the windows update is restarting your computer?! plese say more about your problem!
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The problem is that the Developer Preview expired last month, and for this reason, the computer will restart every 2 hours but will not lose any functionality.
The fix? - Update to Windows Consumer Preview which will only expire in early 2013.

I also use Windows 8 but I have no problem, what build do you have?use build 8250 and you.ll have no more problems!
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darkrainx2 said:
I also use Windows 8 but I have no problem, what build do you have?use build 8250 and you.ll have no more problems!
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Thats the Consumer preview, which will only expire next year. He's running build 8102.
Just go here, run the file and it will upgrade to the latest version, and your rebooting problems will go away.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview

How does one disable expiration of Windows 8 Consumer Preview?

Looks like Windows 8 expires next year on 1/15. Any way to disable that function so that it doesn't lock down my computer?

Why?
I any case, there'll be a public beta released in the next few months I'd say anyway.

moved to general - not development

I'm not sure you can. Also, it technically isn't deactivated, but rather nuetered. It doesn't get updates, force shut downs every 2 hours, you can't access free MS software, ect. Basically, it drives you mad until you go so insane you get forced into upgrading.

qipengart said:
Looks like Windows 8 expires next year on 1/15. Any way to disable that function so that it doesn't lock down my computer?
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No.
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qipengart said:
Looks like Windows 8 expires next year on 1/15. Any way to disable that function so that it doesn't lock down my computer?
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One does not disable that time bomb.....at least as far as XDA-Dev is concerned.
Moving along, nothing to see

qipengart said:
Looks like Windows 8 expires next year on 1/15. Any way to disable that function so that it doesn't lock down my computer?
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nah.. the 1/15 is already the extended version.
i didn't found anything after googling for 5 minute.
well, just wait till the full version comes, and wait for the pirate to help you

derpotato said:
nah.. the 1/15 is already the extended version.
i didn't found anything after googling for 5 minute.
well, just wait till the full version comes, and wait for the pirate to help you
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I don't believe it's ethical or within forum rules to advocate piracy man.
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ShadowEO said:
I don't believe it's ethical or within forum rules to advocate piracy man.
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no one said anything about software piracy. Also, one can only illegally use windows IF they use an illegal key. Disabling/enabling windows activation files for development / testing purposes, is not so long as they dont use any product key at all. Plus, there are built in commands to extend the activation period for a set amount of times and can be reset 3 times.

cyberkeeper1 said:
no one said anything about software piracy. Also, one can only illegally use windows IF they use an illegal key. Disabling/enabling windows activation files for development / testing purposes, is not so long as they dont use any product key at all. Plus, there are built in commands to extend the activation period for a set amount of times and can be reset 3 times.
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so the phrase "wait for the pirate to help you" obviously isnt hinting at piracy, right?

cyberkeeper1 said:
no one said anything about software piracy. Also, one can only illegally use windows IF they use an illegal key. Disabling/enabling windows activation files for development / testing purposes, is not so long as they dont use any product key at all. Plus, there are built in commands to extend the activation period for a set amount of times and can be reset 3 times.
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using a product outside of its original intended use, hacked or stolen, is still piracy, you are using something that you have not paid for, whether or not there are exploits to get around that is irrelevant. Dude, it costs next to nothing to buy it so just buy it an feel good that your supporting developers rather than trying to rip them off
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Oh, "outside original intended use" is pretty much what hacking is all about. Mind you, that's usually a matter of adding functionality, not of bypassing license restrictions (which is exactly what the OP is asking for, and is, by all intents and purposes, piracy).
Just buy the damn OS for $40 US and use the release version instead of the buggy pre-release. I believe you can even install it over the existing pre-release and keep your files, if backing up is too much trouble. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store...dows_8_Pro?WT.mc_id=MSCOM_HP_nav_BuyWSoftware

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. Mind you, that's usually a matter of adding functionality, not of bypassing license restrictions (which is exactly what the OP is asking for, and is, by all intents and purposes, piracy).
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my point exactly. I've now updated about half a dozen devices, its so stupidly cheap it would be madness not doing it, any vista era laptop is BETTER than new with it, the age old "excuses" for piracy just don't hold any water at this price point.
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TheAtheistOtaku said:
so the phrase "wait for the pirate to help you" obviously isnt hinting at piracy, right?
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Well I never saw that part... Lol. However, I do make a valid point. Microsoft sells software, sure, but it's the keys they actually care about. I actually already disabled the activation utilities in windows 8 pro last night because it came up on a fresh install and crashed my computer. Another valid reason to remove it. I was in middle of watching something and the new activation came up in a metro ui windows and refused to close. Next thing I know, a BSOD came up with a video crash error. Since windows is so cheap, I do plan to buy the pro upgrade, just not right this minute.
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Well I never saw that part... Lol. However, I do make a valid point. Microsoft sells software, sure, but it's the keys they actually care about. I actually already disabled the activation utilities in windows 8 pro last night because it came up on a fresh install and crashed my computer. Another valid reason to remove it. I was in middle of watching something and the new activation came up in a metro ui windows and refused to close. Next thing I know, a BSOD came up with a video crash error. Since windows is so cheap, I do plan to buy the pro upgrade, just not right this minute.
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while you plan to buy it, what your doing now is still piracy and still frowned apon. the easiest and most effective way to cure activation related crashes is to........actually activate it

Using the already included activation tools that are built in to windows to temporarily disable a buggy subsystem is not piracy. By right, I am given 30 days of free usage on any copy of windows when absent of a product key. I am part of the tech net and msdn and know all about windows, and all of its components, subsystems, and legalities. Trust me when I say that disabling activation during the first 30 days is not by any means even partially shady. Just. E wary after
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Using the already included activation tools that are built in to windows to temporarily disable a buggy subsystem is not piracy. By right, I am given 30 days of free usage on any copy of windows when absent of a product key. I am part of the tech net and msdn and know all about windows, and all of its components, subsystems, and legalities. Trust me when I say that disabling activation during the first 30 days is not by any means even partially shady. Just. E wary after
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everybody's on tech net huh!
kinda makes you wonder what your doing messing about with not activating it...
yes you have 30 days to eval it, but heres the thing, since you haven't paid for it, and you have access to technet, I assume that's where you got your copy of it? what I fail to understand then is why you haven't activated it with the key you generated from them...
unless you didn't get it from TechNet , you cant download it without buying it first, unless you got it through alternative channels, but then why would you when you have access to TechNet and not use it....
many questions...

Problem... solved? Maybe? Haha.
dazza9075 said:
everybody's on tech net huh!
Kinda makes you wonder what your doing messing about with not activating it...
Yes you have 30 days to eval it, but here's the thing... since you haven't paid for it, (and you have access to TechNet) I assume that's where you got your copy of it? What I fail to understand then is why you haven't activated it with the key you generated from them...
Unless you get it from TechNet , you can't download it without buying it first. Unless you got it through alternative channels... but then why would you when you have access to TechNet and not use it...
many questions...
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Well, I just simply do not have a premium subscription that would allow me access to said keys. I just get copies of things for free for evaluation only. i will be upgrading my TechNet license to premium before too long once i get some more money. The other reason is for testing. i know windows 8 is great, but i want to run a semi-long term test to make sure that windows can hold up to all that i need and do every day. Hence the 30 day evaluation. On average, my computers have about 280GB of nothing but just programs for development (website, source, etc...) and programs for places such as this for building ROMs, and that takes A LOT of space already.
So basically, i disabled the activation out of pure annoyance, and it doesn't need to be activated when merely evaluating the Install. Second, if that is what happens every time it comes up, then i will definitely figure out a way to keep using the older Consumer Preview that just expired on monday, or settle for windows 7 again. Man I had EVERYTHING set up on it. Good for computer repair, ROM building, building custom Windows OS copies for licensed redistribution, etc... You name it, i had it... lol.

Windows 8 Start Menu First Look

...and what was the point of that? Most, of us here have been using Windows 8 for months.

JihadSquad said:
...and what was the point of that? Most, of us here have been using Windows 8 for months.
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Speak for yourself... It's not coming anywhere near my machine until Metro is gone. I've tried ClassicShell and it's ok, but I'm not really to become a statistic that says it's ok for the removal of user choice (whether to use Metro or not).

Kryten2k35 said:
Speak for yourself... It's not coming anywhere near my machine until Metro is gone. I've tried ClassicShell and it's ok, but I'm not really to become a statistic that says it's ok for the removal of user choice (whether to use Metro or not).
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Actually he speaks for most of the competent user base of this forum, you know, the Windows 8 forum.
Windows 8 is what its is and that isn't going to change in the next couple of days including the funky new efficient interface, but you are right, you do have a choice, as do we all, ill stand by mine on this forum, the Windows 8 forum, the Windows 8 OS that has "metro" built in, the windows 8 you have chosen to not want and you can stand by that choice.... just Mind the door on the way out

Kryten2k35 said:
Speak for yourself... It's not coming anywhere near my machine until Metro is gone. I've tried ClassicShell and it's ok, but I'm not really to become a statistic that says it's ok for the removal of user choice (whether to use Metro or not).
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if u dont like the metro interface.. why update to Windows 8?

Like i've seen someone else say.... people have to look at it a different way than "Oh, Microsoft just f*cked up the desktop with sh*tty Metro". They didn't. Metro is basically the Start menu.... the same place that everyone normally had to go to launch an app if they didn't have a shortcut on the desktop to being with.

elementaldragon said:
Like i've seen someone else say.... people have to look at it a different way than "Oh, Microsoft just f*cked up the desktop with sh*tty Metro". They didn't. Metro is basically the Start menu.... the same place that everyone normally had to go to launch an app if they didn't have a shortcut on the desktop to being with.
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Not entirely true, but you can surely look at it this way. But those who say MSFT ****ed up are essentially the same bunch who moaned about XP, Vista and Windows 7. You can't win them. They'll moan and sell their kidneys to buy Apple products and then moan there and cycle goes on.
To each their own.

Pay full retail (again ) to use windows 8 on my laptop?

I got windows 8 for my desktop and was planning to install it on my laptop too , but to my surprise you can only activate it on one computer do I need to pay the full 70 euros AGAIN just to have it on my second computer ?? Extra 20 euros i could pay , but full retail? I'm even using the same outlook account for effs sake ! :/

A Windows 8 license is per computer, not per user. You'll need to purchase a full retail copy to use it.

As a side note, this has been true of every version of Windows I can remember. Prior to XP, they didn't require activation and could therefore be used on multiple machines, but it was against the license to do so unless it was removed from the other computers first.
Believe me, those older Windows versions cost a lot more than 70 Euros, too.

Chad_Petree said:
I got windows 8 for my desktop and was planning to install it on my laptop too , but to my surprise you can only activate it on one computer do I need to pay the full 70 euros AGAIN just to have it on my second computer ?? Extra 20 euros i could pay , but full retail? I'm even using the same outlook account for effs sake ! :/
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Umm.. Windows has -always- been licensed that way, since version 1.0... If you've been using it differently, you pirated it!

Only one way to find out, try installing with the same key and see what happens. And keep us posted while your at it
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forceoflove said:
Only one way to find out, try installing with the same key and see what happens. And keep us posted while your at it
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Please stop resurrecting long dead threads.

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Hej everybody,
I have just gotten my 950 xl. I got it very cheap. I am planning to change it with a nexus 6p. The phone self has all hardware I want, but i am afraid of software problems.
I am a android user since I have moved from Windows Mobile because android is open. I use Web browsing too much. (I use between 15-20 gb!)
Therfore it is nice to be able to block ads. Is it possible on Windows phone 10?

I am not sure why are you afraid of the software problems. Android has also awful lot flaws...
I came from IOS/Android.... and I find them both boring... my XL 950 is on its way ))
as for the Adblock , I am also looking forward to have some info about softwares like adaway...

Hopefully someone will create an ad-block extension for Edge once extension support arrives. Failing that I know Firefox for Windows 10 is at least being worked on. I'd be happy with either!

Windows phone is no go for me without adblock.

niyazidk said:
Windows phone is no go for me without adblock.
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then it´s a no go for you because there is no adblocker for Windows Mobile

I will change it with a Nexus 6p.

zimilaci said:
I am not sure why are you afraid of the software problems. Android has also awful lot flaws...
I came from IOS/Android.... and I find them both boring... my XL 950 is on its way ))
as for the Adblock , I am also looking forward to have some info about softwares like adaway...
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You will disappoint when you get the phone.sorry to say that.because I just return mine after half day use. Suck Microsoft

paullu said:
You will disappoint when you get the phone.sorry to say that.because I just return mine after half day use. Suck Microsoft
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Why what is it you did not like ?

zimilaci said:
Why what is it you did not like ?
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I was so exciting when I saw 950xl in first time feel so powerful then I pre order on nov 16 and got it on nov 25.
Phone not smooth as what I thought.
And old issue very less apps sometime loadding a app for almost two minutes. I use it about two three hours it crush two times. Just not for me this time Microsoft still need more I mean much more improve. I just don't get it Microsoft is huge company put so ****ing money on windown phone why they just put some money for improve apps.
But phone design is good.good looking even they make with plastic but you can change battery or back cover that is good.

Every 950(not the xl) review I have read were not bad neither good. I think the big next ting will be surface phone with Intel inside. Then we will be able to run .exe files. I am excited.

Any chance someone will get access to the system folders, so we can use a "Hosts" file?
The first batch of Lumia 950/950XL's seemed to be bad, mine kept crashing and that first update bricked it. The replacement has newer version of OS and runs a lot better.
While, I also like the idea of an Intel based W10M phone. Theres still the problem that Intel has never solved and will plaque any Intel Lumia/Surface phone that's released "battery life" Android may get a lot of complaints about battery life, but its still far better than an Intel based phone so far.

ZaForD said:
Any chance someone will get access to the system folders, so we can use a "Hosts" file.
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You'd need interop unlock which currently doesn't work on the 950/950XL. Unfortunately those are the only two Windows-based phones which cannot be unlocked in order to modify the hosts file.
Also, Edge in Continuum mode is badly in need of ad-blocking. Ads on some pages (cough, WindowsCentral) totally destroy the browser/system performance when using Continuum, especially since you get desktop pages (not mobile ones).

jhoff80 said:
You'd need interop unlock which currently doesn't work on the 950/950XL. Unfortunately those are the only two Windows-based phones which cannot be unlocked in order to modify the hosts file.
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Thanks for the info.
I haven't been around here for a while and I've clearly got a lot to catch up on