Hi, so I see people struggling to activate their copy of windows 8.1, even those who legally purchased windows 8. I just don't want windows to connect to microsoft servers and check if the version was genuine, I don't want any updates, just the copy as it is after a fresh install and before activation. so is there a way to kill windows genuine check or whatever it's called?
You can never fully isolate Windows from the M$ servers...until of course if you stop using the internet You can disable Windows updates if you want though
Yes... Remove NIC from PC if inbuilt disable it...Last use firewall to block all incoming & outgoing...
while keeping internet access... like how it's done with PC games, they can't be activated unless you have a genuine copy yet still people can make the single player mode playable and it never connects to the game server.
If he does that he wouldn't be able to access the internet at all.... Coz that game is a program that runs within Windows..that's why you can deny internet access to that game using a firewall....the only way to completely disable Windows from communicating with M$ servers is by disconnecting the internet permanently
Who told you that. I purchased my Windows 8 copy and activated windows 8.1 successfully with clean install. Atleast tested with 3 copies. Unless you didn't buy legally, you got to live with that.
'Atleast tested with 3 copies' means? You used that same key to activate 3 copies of Windows 8.1 on 3 different machines?
Nope. 3 Different licenses on 3 different machines. I got them during Windows 8 Promo offer. In my machine, I activated Media Center and Office 2013 too. So it's working perfectly
Are you feeling sleepy? I told you, I activated Windows 8.1 with legal/genuine Win 8 key and used Media Center key to add/upgrade features. Installed Office 2013 and used office key to activate. I am just letting you know that Legal/Genuine keys work always more or less perfectly
Because I despise online updates and other useless packets, regardless of the operating system (or whether it has been activated or not) I tend to always set the Windows firewall to the following. Code: ALLOW firefox.exe (outgoing) ALLOW putty.exe (outgoing) ALLOW Core Networking DHCP (outgoing) ALLOW Core Networking DNS (outgoing) BLOCK ALL (incoming) BLOCK ALL (outgoing) Then I like to turn on Windows updates and watch it cry I do similar with older operating systems which don't have a program level firewall (Windows XP / 2000) using an old (non-bloated) product called Sygate Personal Firewall. Ironically Linux and BSD don't have program level firewalls (they are frowned upon by purists) which is a real pain. For example Windows update uses port 80 so if you enable that (i.e so you can use the web browser) then the update requests would come flooding in if you didnt have program level access.
also remember remove all those ipv6 bridge (such as teredo), most default connect to MS. p.s. no activation? great, then rearm it and see it fall later
Hmm, I would still have this feeling that the OS is sending data. It is sad that I simply don't trust that Windows (and Microsoft) isn't out to get me. I spent a while testing the default Windows firewall was actually doing its job using Wireshark. I was actually (pleasantly) surprised that Microsoft didn't put a clause in there to always allow ports to Microsofts servers to stay open. This is why Sygate PF is so good. It wasn't made by Microsoft so I almost trust it lol. As for ipv6, some of it comes under a separate entry in the firewall Core Networking DHCP (ipv6). I leave this blocked because frankly we will all be long dead before ipv6 support is actually needed on client machines
oh no, not another thread about conspiracies and stories about what makes microsoft. This we have read it several times here, that something so farfetched and exaggerated
I have disabled my IPv6 entries and tunnels from the device manager. Not only is it not needed but could be a undetected entry path to the system.