Windows XP’s most famous pirated key wasn’t a hack. It was a leak

The famous FCKGW Windows XP product key wasn't a clever hack, a former Microsoft engineer says. It was a leaked volume ...
ExtremeTech

Windows XP rises from the grave: Simple hack gives you five more years of updates

With a simple registry hack, you can net yourself five more years of official Microsoft updates for your aging Windows XP machine. Microsoft, though, says you really shouldn't do it -- and that you ...
Reuters

Registry hack allows Windows XP SP2 patching

People still running the now-retired Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) can trick the operating system into installing security updates, a researcher said Monday. The hack requires an edit of a single ...
Gizmodo

Simple Hack Upgrades XP Home to XP Pro

German computer magazine C’T is reporting a procedure that will let you change Windows XP Home Edition to Windows XP Professional just by changing two bytes in an installation file (implying, at least ...
Windows Latest

Windows XP’s most famous pirated key wasn’t a hack, and a Microsoft engineer explains why

If you used a PC in the early 2000s, this image of a CD with FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 written with a marker probably needs no explanation: For everyone else, that random-looking string written on ...