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The youth's slang is so hard to keep up with...
(lemmy.world)
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I don't know if it still works, but I found a "cheat" for free windows back in the day that I even upgraded into 10 with lol
My friend had an "upgrade" code for XP that he gave me, so when I installed windows and tried to use the code it gave me the whole "this is an upgrade code not a new code" kind of message. I rebooted the PC and used the same installer to "upgrade" my newly installed windows XP to windows XP. Same install, just did it again basically. It then accepted the code as valid lol
Today's kids use the activation scripts on GitHub which is owned by Microsoft. Just open cmd and run
irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex
It will download the code storef here: https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts and run it, then windows is activated.
you can also use it to upgrade from home to pro/enterprise for free
I used it for the office suite. I should really look at using it for an OS upgrade one day
what part of it is untrusted?
all components of it are open source, down to the proxy dlls and activation scripts
yeah
irm ... | iex
is basically the direct windows equivalent of pipe to bash but eh.... you can download the script from github, unpack it and run manually if you want