In an earlier post in the Phoenix Bios Mod forum/thread I saw mention of the upcoming WAT technology that will be used by MS to detect loaders, Cr**ks, patches, etc. I am concerned because I successfully activated once using the Umentech loader and tried unsuccessfully with the Hazar 1.5 loader. I realized it was an emulation so, with the help of the kind folks on this forum I finally did a hard mod bios flash then formatted - reinstalled W7 and did the command line vbs commands to succesfully activate. Now I read that just doing a format wont erase the footprints of the loader and I will eventually have problems when the WAT technology is deployed. Questions: What is WAT technology How do I completely get rid of traces of the loader? Thank you Rich
Thanks, I understood that it wites to an area of the disk , like MBR, that a format will not erase. Is this true?
Bootsect.exe/bootinst.exe are used to run the nt60 command which does not write the MBR, it writes the bootsector. But that not problem, many people dual boot linux/windows using GRLDR, so they cannot stop GRLDR without affecting wrong people and make sue microsoft. have a zanacks, this is not that big of deals
It is fairly unlikely that Microsoft will tackle loaders for a long time. The name change of their WGA to WAT does nothing more about it. Due to Windows' construction and handling of OEM SLP activations, there are currently no systems within Windows that allow it to disable these licenses even if a WGA test on a webpage signals to the OS that it isn't genuine. Once a blacklisted key is detected all that it can do is not let you get whatever update you were trying to download.
If your key gets blacklisted you can still get updates but only the critical ones.On Win 7 you'll have to deal with Reduced Functionality Mode or RFM for short it's annoying as hell that is why most of us here prefer a BIOS mod over a lo*der.
Reduced Functionality Mode was REMOVED with the advent of Vista SP1 and never reintroduced again. Vista SP1 and onward including Windows 7 activation failure results in: -15 second nag popup at every logon -wallpaper reverted to black every 1 hour -periodic tray popups nagging about activation