I believe that I'll just keep typing 'Microsoft-owned Github' over and over again. :lol:

lol :grin: ...although, I saw Windows 11 on sale the other week, wasn't it? It was like $20 or something. Ah yeah, this one https://www.techtalk.cc/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=4507 on StackSocial. Seems it's still available, oh it's even $15! :grin: :clap: :grin: Either way, everything is so expensive these days that price of Windows is negligible really. I mean, hell, an ok mouse or a keyboard seems to cost like $150 these days. :eh:

[quote="Steven W" post_id=19626 time=1663476688 user_id=114]
Source files on MS owned GitHub?! :lol:[/quote]

https://massgrave.dev/blog/tsforge

https://github.com/massgravel/TSforge :lol:

Several tech sites have articles regarding this too. What do you even say at this point?

blank administrator password, hahaha...

Oh lord. I'm remembering stupid shit. I worked at a place that was running XP. My former boss had changed his password and couldn't log in. I guess he'd typed something wrong. Anyway, the computers were set up so that they would log in through the network, but if that didn't work or the computers weren't connected they'd fall back to a local log in. After trying a few things that didn't work, he was on the phone with one of the IT guys, I decided what the hell, I disconnected the ethernet cable, rebooted, typed Administrator at the prompt with no password and the machine logged on. I changed the password on his local account, logged him on, connected the ethernet cable and told him to change his password. I think the IT guy likely shit himself when he realized all the machines were set up with no password on the Administrator account.
:lol:

For the life of me I can't recall the specific product, whether it was an OS or perhaps some version of Office... Anyway, I vaguely recall a friend showing me that if you pointed the 'upgrade check' back to the install CD (perhaps it was a specific directory), that it would pass the check... I used to just about die laughing at some of this stuff.

Oops, now that I think of it, that will probably be in 2024.

Hehe, I vaguely recall someone telling me that all ones would work, but never even saw a retail edition until years later. There's some weird quirks with 98SE and perhaps plain-old-98 too. A neighbor I had back in the very late 90s showed me. I recall there some keys that will bypass the 'upgrade' check for the 'upgrade' edition(s). I can't recall them right off the top of my head and, unless someone puts a vid up on Youtube or shares them on GitHub, I wouldn't mention them even if I could recall. I guess 98[b][i]SE[/i][/b] will be 25 years old sometime next year... :lol:

hahaha i think i knew this 20+ years ago and forgotten about it

From the vidya:
[quote]I thought it would still be interesting to try and reverse engineer the Windows 95 serial check using modern tools - more than 25 years later![/quote]

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