Liam Proven, reports for The Register. Microsoft’s operating system that won’t die is getting new life more than 21 years after it was first released. It is possible to activate new installations – safe and secure, no crack, offline. A blog post from Tinyapps reveals the hot news that no one is expecting. the algorithm Microsoft uses to validate Windows XP product keys has been hacked and re-implemented. As a result, it is now possible to generate valid activation codes for Windows XP without an Internet connection, even though Microsoft has disabled all activation servers.
This is not a recommendation
But first a word of caution and restraint. Please do not take this article as advice for running Windows XP. It wasn’t the most secure of operating systems in 2001, and you really shouldn’t be running it in 2023, especially not on anything connected to the Internet. But having said that, the problem is that sometimes people are in need. There is, for example, hardware that only works with Windows XP and won’t work with anything newer… and some of that might be very expensive hardware that’s still perfectly functional but requires a long-outdated device. Windows version to run it. If you’re dealing with such a device, or have some special and very specific software that you need to run that doesn’t work properly on any newer version of Windows, you may be forced to use XP. If so, one of the problems is that Microsoft has disabled the activation servers, so even if you install a clean fresh copy, you can no longer activate it over the internet. (Supposedly the phone activation service still works if that’s an option for you).