Why is 000-0000000 a valid Windows XP key?

[@witherornot388]

certified banger right here folks

[@capybara_realcat]

yes this is a banger change my mind

[@Endermanch]

math expert approved Now i can sleep well!

[@drreflexlol83384]

@@Endermanchhi

[@dmdev_]

Fr

[@JacksonGaming092]

​@@Endermanch :| you said this is not pirating in the last video it didn't work, so your probably gonna get banned

[@ElijahGames69]

Dang, I remember the old days back in 2020 makin the basic experiments of windows, now he is out here with very good editing and explaining the lore behind windows XP’s key system. Big W for enderman

[@Valetravelgames]

And he voices his videos now too!

[@sizquirt]

rookie, i’ve been watching since 2018

[@CoustDANKMEMES]

@@sizquirt Wait, So Am i rookie when i started to watch him in 2019?

[@niko.records]

well "rookie" i started stalking him since 2001@@sizquirt

[@niko.records]

watching*

[@stuartmcconnachie]

5:51 And they also removed all vowels (A, E and U are also missing). This prevents any recognisable words, or probably more importantly “inappropriate” words.

[@LilacMonarch]

Lmao imagine you go to put in your key and you see F#*$-YU

[@SzymekCSC]

Except for Y

[@mari2.]

It would be funny as fuck if there was a Windows XP Key Like: FUCK5-8SHIT-91265-HELPM-K29AJ

[@vgamonitor]

I didnt even figure people already knew XP's key algorithm yet

[@oggilein1]

there was an XP source code leak a while back so that likely helped

[@Kiki79250CoC]

​@@oggilein1 but IIRC the activation-related things were not included in it so I don't think it helped so much

[@BaldiReycaster]

I think that the XP key algorithm will be leaked soon.

[@SerBallister]

Some one with lots of patience and time could disassemble whatever exe/dll is doing the key check and reverse engineer what algorithm it uses.

[@Acorn_Anomaly]

@@SerBallister The activation code generator used by MS support is available online, so it's probably only a matter of time before that gets disassembled.

[@shreeneyajmeri8587]

Nice video! The knowledge you give to this community is great and it sucks that you're going through issues with youtube. Good job!

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Why is 000-0000000 a valid Windows XP key?

[@elesqueleto2010]

​@@LavaCreeperPeopleidk, i think the answer is in the video, but i couldn't explain you, i don't speak too much english. (i'm from argentina, i speak spanish but i talk with some english people on internet.)

[@WackoMcGoose]

Wow... Even to this day, I was always (for some reason) under the impression that keys were somehow _individually baked in_ to each and every CD, and one key from a CD wouldn't work with a different CD copy of the exact same version... even though that's complete nonsense, would require every CD to be manually written on a per-disc basis, and is verifiably false even without getting into key generators...

[@disketa25]

Wouldn't be surprised if that'd be the case for Vista/7, as it was exactly that way SecuROM/StarForce verified disk/key authenticity, by literally baking a key into each batch of the discs. A fascinating, albeit somewhat useless marvel of technology...

[@Notevenmad955]

@@disketa25it isn’t. what was only baked in was the edition(except enterprise and starter had their own separate media), but could easliy be bypassed by doing a backup of the cd, removing a file and burning another copy

[@corataylor2205]

​@@Notevenmad955 funny enough, though, if you had the "anytime upgrade" disk (which came with my first PC, Acer Aspire T180) it could clean install any edition of vista. All the literature made it seem like it was just an upgrade disk, but if you booted and chose "custom" it was basically an AIO vista disk. Minus server variants obviously.

[@AROAH]

It wouldn’t make any sense for a company with a client base as large as Microsoft’s to use such a copy protection method. For many game publishers and niche software developers, however, this was the case, particularly in the 90s and early 2000s, before Internet-based product activation was the norm. Even nowadays, you have unbelievably annoying software that’ll include a physical USB dongle that you have to have plugged in to use the software, and that dongle is tied to that copy of your software. It’s ridiculous.

[@disketa25]

@@AROAH TBH, I'm still surprised why Microsoft never did this. Given $40 pricetag and at the very most $2/dongle in bulk, could be a decent copy protection idea...

[@mollthecoder]

My man is very excited about math

[@IamMauriS]

Still wondering how endermanch isnt vanished from earth rn.

[@NetQza]

Same

[@ordici_]

here before the video gets taken down

[@Blitzedzz]

lol

[@gametalk3149]

fortunately, the video was not in fact taken down

[@Mr.Postal]

Enderman is the only Person from that i learned about Computers very well. I was 8 years old and searched for Music on KZbin that I LIKE but dont know the name or what music it is i only found your videos with the music i liked but never watched the content, after 1 year i saw that content and got interested about it and always watched your videos and also was happy when you uploaded a new video, now i am 14 and learned a lot of information from your videos. Without you i wouldn't work or even handle computers like an Expert and would have a different job and could not even handle a situation where the payloads of a virus are playing with my computer. Everyday i hope that you dont get Banned and if you uploaded a video i react like i won 1 Billion $ from the Lottery. Without you and your Very hard work for your Videos and your Content that i appreciate very much, i would be sad nonstop. So i hope you dont get banned from KZbin. 💚💚

[@FurriousFox]

Honestly interested in the hours long version of you explaining it completely in high detail

[@rarapas]

I love these deep dives! Well done Andrew! Always a pleasure!

[@MSWinNT]

Out of curiousity, how many videos will there be about this Windows XP and Server 2003 key algorithm as i like to know all the requirements to generate a valid product Key for XP and especially the x64 XP and Server 2003 as these videos are very interesting

[@Endermanch]

I think 3-4 for basic generation/validation w/ full understanding. I'll try to keep things concise. I love speaking about such things and go very in-depth, even where it isn't required. I'll try 😂

[@vaualbus]

If you watched the video you would understood that you cannot generate a x64 key that is guarantee to be ok all

[@MSWinNT]

​@@EndermanchThis is why I enjoy this content, it's nice to learn key algorithm with a bunch of math for abandonware. Also I know why XP x64 key algorithm is the same as Server 2003, Server 2003 instead of just being ta Server counterpart to XP, its NT codebase is actually different as regular XP uses NT 5.1 Build 2600 and Server 2003 is NT 5.2 Build 3790 and due to a AMD64/x86_64 version of Server 2003, instead of Microsoft rewriting the code for NT 5.1, they decided to use the same one for Server 2003 and just configure it for Workstation on the XP x64. It's all quite interesting to learn about. Hope it helps you realize why XP x64 key algorithm is like Server 2003

[@wardengamer374]

I hope this video doesn't get taken down as well, which happened with the Windows 95 activation video. I hope you get that video back soon. Edit: I downloaded this video in case that happens. Everyone, make sure to download this video just in case it does get taken down.

[@kozackipolak3246]

Its nice seeing you with 300k man. Started watching when you had 30-40k. Keep up good work man.

[@Preflame]

0:49 windows xp is bfdi real?

[@apiantable2123]

I activated my windows XP Pro SP3 with this OP tool. All thanks to the source code leak. Enderman, you are the best!

[@apiantable2123]

I' m a programmer also

[@featurebreaker]

Video idea: Show what happens if you delete every environment variable of the system and or for specific processes and how it affects/damages the system or makes it difficult to use

[@JagritRajoriya]

Video idea: Throw your pc in sulfuric acid and see how it effects the computer

[@bfincognito4080]

Nice video man... too bad that some people don't appreciate your work.... expect that, good job

[@hellohowareyall123]

WE GETTING BANNED FROM KZbin FOR THIS ONE 🔥💯💯🔥🔥

[@Blitzedzz]

💀💀

[@murderer2022]

It’s old, so nothing don’t work as copyright. DUMBASS 😂

[@doomjustice]

Bros underage💀💀

[@Blitzedzz]

@@doomjustice me?

[@Oreo108GD]

@@Blitzedzzhe’s prob talking about liam619pro 😅

[@lychkinn]

Hard to believe it's nearing 2024 & there's still videos made about Windows XP

[@LilacMonarch]

XP is eternal

[@X400DYL]

Super work, very informative, love it, Subbed

[@552eden]

I love the voiced videos! way easier to follow (no need to concetrate on the screen for the whole video)

[@GTAIVisbest]

Yes, voiced videos are soooo much better, even if he has a slight accent (who cares about that IMHO)

[@yousefslimani99]

Hope this one should be legal for him, Cause I don't want him to get another copyright strike

[@auzziegamer4661]

Those copyright trolls are gonna come again rip

[@yousefslimani99]

@@auzziegamer4661 TBH I really liked his video and I wish god will save him from these maniacs who doesn't like him that much, Cause one more strike and we'll kiss his channel goodbye

[@elesqueleto2010]

omg someone with a taiko profile pic!!! in a enderman video!!!!! on a thursday??? what a weird coincidence!!

[@yousefslimani99]

@@elesqueleto2010 lol, also we are in wednesday not thursday

[@johnnymfsu2]

when "Disclaimer" showed up, discord also updated, so it was like: Disclaimer Checking for updates...

[@v0rap]

Superb video! It's so much fun to see you evolve as a content creator, too. I can't wait to see what the future brings!

[@mldalex]

1:00 dang I love the planet x3 soundtrack. it is nice that also other people like it too

[@dxgamer955]

So true!!!

[@KrystPl]

3:42 wait so if theres a raw product key, can there be a cooked product key?

[@tezcanaslan2877]

One can argue the cooked one is the end result

[@KrystPl]

@@tezcanaslan2877 ok

[@santilalexb]

Generate me 30 sets of strings in the form of ''xxxyy-OEM-NNSSSSS-zzzzz'' where ''xxx'' is day of the year between 001 and 366 (for example, 192= 10th of July) and ''yy' is the year (for example, 94 = 1994). Your range is from the first day of 1995 to the last day of 2003. ''OEM'' must remain intact. The ''NNSSSSS'' segment consists of digits. ''N'' = 0. Pich each ''S'' number following way: total sum of 5 numbers you've generated for each ''S'' must be a multiple of 7. The last segment ''zzzzz'' should consist of random numbers, ''z'' representing a number. (here for the ones that want to see if it works) (thank me later)

[@teenova]

Please, no one take down the video he hasn’t even reached 1 million subscribers

[@nFyrin]

I would love a video taking a closer look at how Massgrave's windows activator works, if KZbin doesn't strike it down. I heard it fools the activation service into thinking it is connected to a Microsoft server and generates a ticket to create a valid key.

[@RationalFunction]

It does that in HWID mode yes. It pretends it is an upgrade from Windows 7, which gets it a digital license.

[@wrekced]

This is a really good video on this subject! I wonder if Dave of the youtube channel "Dave's Garage" would be a good resource. He is a former Microsoft programmer who worked on things like Win 95 and the Windows task manager. He could tell you a lot about the internals of Windows.

[@shokdj1]

All I use to do was find someone selling a laptop online with their product key on the sticker in the picture

[@axolotelUA]

i was unable to sleep for a very long time period... until you answered that question

[@Jessycakeboy]

My brain is not braining for this video

[@MSWinNT]

You need a lot of knowledge in math to understand this video

[@Wake_up._This_isnt_your_world]

Cryptography is basically the same as you becoming an locksmith, but digitally. It's all about creating "locks" of sorts, and creating ways to open said "locks" with digital keys. And as you'd expect, it involves math. A ton, TON of math and complex algebra to even understand how tf the windows activation keys work, and god forbid you try to find how it works on the latest OS'es, because it's incredibly complex, you might as well not bother with it at all!

[@theairaccumulator7144]

This isn't even the beginning, what he talked about in this video is just decoding the key into it's parts.

[@thatanimeweirdo]

Very interesting video but I hate that the question of the title was never answered

[@Wilker_uwu]

tfw you have to do prompt engineering in the entire script to avoid being falsely picked up by the platform

[@MrHack4never]

If I can't buy a new copy, I can't steal a copy

[@trigger337]

Sequence is marked with C and Check digit is marked with S 🧐

[@xzherin]

*cigoL*

[@Thesecretsigma....]

@@xzherin meat

[@dark-hi1mr]

i would wanna see him opening globalroot without crashing, it would be interesting to see what is inside of it

[@exogator]

Ive been locked out of my xp hard drive because my ram died, swaped it out and that was too many hardware changes for it to be happy. Had to backtrack into it using the help option and pulling the hard drive through the browser, got it all off but i still want ti to be functional on its own.

[@Hanera_The_Planeta]

0:47 angy bfdi windows 7

[@ardedei123]

0:45 i love how he casully summoned the osc with the pic in the right down corner

[@Jake1702]

Let's send this video back in time 22 years and see what chaos it brings.

[@TheRealZone]

his son: hey dad, what did you play when you were a kid? Andrew: windows

[@nov2263]

i still remember a Windows XP Pro product key in my head since mid 2000's.

[@dragonstalker4948]

Love these videos! I find them to be entertaining and fascinating, seeing what windows can do.

[@jolex_nerd8132]

please continue this series, i need it

[@G6JPG]

I didn't see any answer to the title question!

[@Endermanch]

I'm cooking up the second episode as of writing this, so it will start to make sense as the series progress. That's the entire idea!

[@Yunus_AliEdit62]

Yo back 2020 i was watchin your videos al the day man and I finally found your channel man it has been 3 years ago!

[@shlokbeta]

If KZbin takes this video down……….

[@TheWanderingTraderm]

i hope youtube does not take down a tall creature

[@modyroblox2255]

Bro i love your videos man keep going!!!

[@_thePineapple_]

If this gets striked, youtube is f'd up

[@dedogamer]

im having a issue with sethc cmd sticky keys when i push shift 5 times sethc cmd does not open i checked the folder to see mabey it reset it self no cmd stull sethc sethc opend if u dubble click it but not seam to recinize the shift press im on windows 10 21h1

[@starnumber_alt]

Couldn’t they just generate a string with a crypto library, encode it a few times and use it as a product key? Then windows would require internet to be activated, and ask ms servers to validate it?

[@witherornot388]

This is essentially how product keys work in modern Windows.

[@Semisafe]

One of the devs that was involved in programming the activation algorithm, Dave Plummer, is very active on YT and he answered this exact question. Basically, he said that they had to offer a way to activate without internet (phone activation), because at this time not every user had a internet connection. Different times …

[@tibo5078]

Great video! You can explain things so well! You are a legend! ❤

[@charlie_nolan]

1:00 is that Planet X3 music? And more later in the episode

[@muradelosangelesescaratesa1837]

you should add a warning saying "you must own a legal copy of windows before proceeding with the stunts" if you want to reduce ur risk of getting banned

[@kurtbitner6675]

I would love to see Dave’s Garage’s reaction to this.

[@DNL_Original]

pls make a tutorial how to uninstall files that says "you dont have permissions to delete this file" PLEASE Reply because i have this problem with a virus a week ago

[@clmm1043]

0:52 planet X3 menu music ?

[@АлександрДаньков-х2ь]

Please, come back to KZbin, we miss you

[@BeginningTry3200]

Downloaded the video before it gets taken down. In the case it does get taken down, I will upload it to Mega for download.

[@JBLTESTER30OFICCIAL]

1:04 thanks for the product key

[@nobbyfirefly57]

Perhaps that Microsoft guy who has a channel for the subs and likes (I forgot the name) might know something. Or not, I forgot what exact period of windows they worked during.

[@gymnasiast90]

That would be Dave Plummer. He might know some stuff, but I’m pretty sure he won’t be allowed to say anything about it (not without clearing it with MS’ lawyers, at any rate).

[@wordart_guian]

Have you ever looked into ms office keys? I feel they get less attention

[@thepwrtank18]

From Office 2000 to 2007, they're the same as XP's system.

[@-_lIl_-]

i like how preventing your video from being striked is as easy as adding a disclaimer for youtube

[@Pwnz0rServer2009]

he will probably get striked anyway as he did that with a similar video in the past and still got striked

[@CreativeHutLego]

I’m a big fan since 2020 and I can’t believe how much enderman has evolved!

[@xtrabaka]

istfg if youtube still will take down this video, they suck

[@MohammedHK876]

This is harder than animation vs math

[@lucasandcalebchannel]

Alan Becker reference

[@josiauh]

hmmm… is that an OSCified windows XP at 0:46?

[@TheOriginalMacOS]

video suggestion: swap the registries of windows before it runs windeploy with windows registry after its all installed

[@nenzen938]

Can you show us how to generate windows 10 product keys

[@AdrielDoesGaming]

Awesome video, it was very interesting to watch!

[@collincatmull]

Is the next part coming soon?

[@Estegosaurio]

please no youtube

[@Radkeyboard7984]

It’s seems like all versions above xp seems to have a installation Id

[@TheSwitchBlade593]

btw the github release of the keygen flagged windows defender for ransomware and i saw some weird dll that said something about crypto in winrar.

[@thepwrtank18]

it's a keygen, antiviruses give keygens fake detections to scare people from pirating

[@ArcadeAssaultSrb]

Enderman can you tell me why does windows XP activation work with phone call after 20+ years?

[@drdonk_auf_die_1_xd]

It's a bot now and they don't give a fuck anymore and just keep it online

[@MylarDaleToloMDTTV]

0:47 The XP Logo Object reminds me of BFDI

[@Ishy_1]

I KNEW SOMEONE WAS GONN ACOMMENT IT!!!!!!!!!!

[@Dooringa]

hey enderman, i need help. How can i install windows 7 on a nvme drive, 11th gen cpu. Is there any way? There are no valid tutorials for laptops...

[@techactivate781]

5:40 had me laughing, great video!

[@tercmd]

6:09 this rule exists even in Windows 10 today, but reasoning makes sense though

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

Why is 000-0000000 a valid Windows XP key?

windows xp sucks

its so broken

[@zsmintzsombortm356]

Where u can download the keygen for telephone activation? 16:42

[@janeklipa4147]

Nice video as always, dang logarythms back to high school

[@martontichi8611]

I can't believe you made it onto Linus tech tips!!! congrats enderman!!!!

[@knot126]

now i have to learn about eliptic curve cryptography before that video comes out so i don't feel completely stupid lol good job !

[@draketroson84]

you best hope the channel doesn't get taken down for this man I'm praying for you, I hope it doesn't happen... but I'd really hate for KZbin to call you out and banish you forever

[@djfl2022]

Andrew, what do u think about graphics.h in Visual Studio ?

[@cesarjavierbarbosa2acidgre276]

And is because Windows XP x64 is based on Windows Server 2003 kernel, so they share the keys thingy.

[@itscharlie0110]

Epic video! I love these ones that explain how internal windows stuff works :)

[@Thedrifter1986]

Io ricordo a memoria la volume license di XP professional....come un codice fiscale

[@Shadow-The-Hedgehog1950]

It says its a virus so its really annoying it took me some time to make it stop deleting it

[@DTKCEKDRK]

Title: why is it a valid password? Everyone: hmmmm Me: because it is

[@kingtasticdev]

this probably took a ton of math

[@Jackpkmn]

I hope you do continue to talk about this for hours.

[@i_like_undertale_and_deltarune]

can you please make a video where you slowy replace or add/remove files from win 1.01 and 2.00 while its running

[@Nicolino1706]

On the browser, how do you get those colorful things with words written on them?