Windows XP Update trick

[KeithS_NW_Ohio]

The ability for you to continue to receive updates, patches and fixes
directly from Microsoft via WindowsUpdate until the year 2019.

Use notepad to copy the following and save as .reg file - and then run
it (double-click the file).

==========
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\WindowsEmbedded\ProductVersion]
"FeaturePackVersion"="SP3"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WEPOS]
"Installed"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\WES]
"Installed"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady]
"Installed"=dword:00000001
===========

Restart your computer, and make sure WindozeUpdate service is running.
You will see there are updates for you to install! And your XP PC will
continue to recieve MS patches until the year 2019.

This is for 32-bit XP. There is a different method for 64-bit version
of XP (by spoofing Windows 2003 server).

This trick works because for the purposes of WindowsUpdate, it makes WU
think you're running POS2009 (Point Of Sale 2009) which is basically
XP for cash registers and other "point-of-sale" PC's. Microsoft
provides update support for POS2009 until 2019.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Thanks.

I'm running XP as of now. Will do the trick above.

 

[hatt]

Somehow I don't think that going to be the same as getting actual WinXP updates.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I figured it wouldn't take long for someone to break through the date-imposed limited of XP patches.

After all, Windows 2003 Server is the same code base, it will officially receive patches until next year.

 

[accent2012]

Originally Posted By: KeithS_NW_Ohio


This trick works because for the purposes of WindowsUpdate, it makes WU
think you're running POS2009 (Point Of Sale 2009) which is basically
XP for cash registers and other "point-of-sale" PC's. Microsoft
provides update support for POS2009 until 2019.


Yep because all of our ATMs run off of XP... hence the increase in skimming fraud. Very easy to install skimming software and run/store directly on the RAM, not the data drive.

 

[demarpaint]

Looks like another vulnerability to me, if they can be tricked into thinking a PC is something else.

 

[ClutchDisc]

Just switch to Linux, it's not worth trying to update XP.

 

[CATERHAM]

I guess you first would have to install notepad?

 

[DragRace]

Theres a step missing here far as I can tell.
When you save it as a .reg and double click,it just opens up notepad and shows everything copied.

 

[CATERHAM]

Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Thanks.

I'm running XP as of now. Will do the trick above.


HTSS what anti-virus protection are you running?
My Norton 360 has expired (too expensive to renew) and I want to use something else.

 

[Oldmoparguy1]

Originally Posted By: KeithS_NW_Ohio
The ability for you to continue to receive updates, patches and fixes
directly from Microsoft via WindowsUpdate until the year 2019.

This is for 32-bit XP. There is a different method for 64-bit version
of XP (by spoofing Windows 2003 server).



That's nice, but I still have a machine running XP-pro X64. What is the process to do this with X64?

Wayne

 

[ClutchDisc]

Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Thanks.

I'm running XP as of now. Will do the trick above.


HTSS what anti-virus protection are you running?
My Norton 360 has expired (too expensive to renew) and I want to use something else.

Try Avast free, it's one of the best!

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: DragRace
Theres a step missing here far as I can tell.
When you save it as a .reg and double click,it just opens up notepad and shows everything copied.


Warning: I have not fiddled around in Windows in a very long time...

Is there an option to import into the registry if you *right* click the file?

 

[pandus13]

Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more
Originally Posted By: DragRace
Theres a step missing here far as I can tell.
When you save it as a .reg and double click,it just opens up notepad and shows everything copied.


Warning: I have not fiddled around in Windows in a very long time...

Is there an option to import into the registry if you *right* click the file?

you need to make sure you are viewing the right file.
it opens notepad because the file extension is actually .txt, not .reg like you see on the screen. (technically is .reg.txt )
there is an option somewhere in explorer that you check a box and show file extensions...
(sorry memory is fuzzy and my machine is win7)

uc50ic4more, i think you can open win reg editor (run regedit) and try an import from there

 

[redhat]

Either turn off "hide extensions for known file types" under folder options and change the extension from .txt to .reg or when saving the file from notepad, change the saving file type to "all files" and manually add the .teg extension to your file name.

 

[CATERHAM]

Originally Posted By: ClutchDisc
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Thanks.

I'm running XP as of now. Will do the trick above.


HTSS what anti-virus protection are you running?
My Norton 360 has expired (too expensive to renew) and I want to use something else.

Try Avast free, it's one of the best!

Thanks, that's what I've done.

 

[SrDriver]

+ 1 on using Linux.

For a free anti-virus program I recommend the free Bitdefender for Windows.

For MAC users they have a version too although it is not free.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
I guess you first would have to install notepad?

Isn't notepad an integral part of Windows? You should already have it.

 

[HTSS_TR]

Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: ClutchDisc
Originally Posted By: CATERHAM
Originally Posted By: HTSS_TR
Thanks.

I'm running XP as of now. Will do the trick above.


HTSS what anti-virus protection are you running?
My Norton 360 has expired (too expensive to renew) and I want to use something else.

Try Avast free, it's one of the best!

Thanks, that's what I've done.

ClutchDisc is correct. I'm using free version of Avast, I also installed and used SuperAntiSpyware. So far no virus.

 

[uc50ic4more]

Originally Posted By: pandus13
uc50ic4more, i think you can open win reg editor (run regedit) and try an import from there


You certainly can, but I had considered that "the hard way" was opening the Registry editor is not an immediately simple thing to do for some users.

Showing file extensions (so that the user can change the file's extension to .reg) should be easy enough to do. I have not touched Windows since XP SP1; but there was a "View" menu in Windows Explorer where one could set whether or not to view hidden files and folders, whether or not to show extensions, etc. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/865219