OK, its been around since last May, but it seems to be a touchy subject with Forums. They either delete the thread or lock it. Well lets see what "No Nonsense" does.
It is the only time in my experience that a hacker has produced something that benefits many thousands of users who hang on to their beloved Windows XP like I do. This simple hack gives the user and extra 5 years of MS support until 2019 for free. Business users have to pay MS for this extension.
See :-
http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...p-hack-resurrects-patches-for-retired-os.html
It all obviously amounts to :-
"Bring up regedit. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\. Create a new Key called PosReady. Right click the new key and add a new DWORD with the value 1. Then go through the Windows Update procedure and a list of back updates will be listed, which you install."
I presume that from then on, Windows XP updates will be applied automatically as normal. It looks like you have to do this :-
1. Start>run>regedit
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - expand
3. SYSTEM - expand
4. WPA is at bottom of SYSTEM list
5. Create new key = Posready - right click
6. Add new DWORD = 00000001
Question ? Ha anybody tried this and if so, does it work ?
It is the only time in my experience that a hacker has produced something that benefits many thousands of users who hang on to their beloved Windows XP like I do. This simple hack gives the user and extra 5 years of MS support until 2019 for free. Business users have to pay MS for this extension.
See :-
http://www.zdnet.com/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp-7000029851/
http://www.computerworld.com/articl...p-hack-resurrects-patches-for-retired-os.html
It all obviously amounts to :-
"Bring up regedit. Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\. Create a new Key called PosReady. Right click the new key and add a new DWORD with the value 1. Then go through the Windows Update procedure and a list of back updates will be listed, which you install."
I presume that from then on, Windows XP updates will be applied automatically as normal. It looks like you have to do this :-
1. Start>run>regedit
2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE - expand
3. SYSTEM - expand
4. WPA is at bottom of SYSTEM list
5. Create new key = Posready - right click
6. Add new DWORD = 00000001
Question ? Ha anybody tried this and if so, does it work ?