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  2. Product key - Wikipedia

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    Product key on a Proof of License Certificate of Authenticity for Windows Vista Home Premium. A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters.

  3. Windows 7 editions - Wikipedia

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    Windows 7 Ultimate is the edition of Windows 7 that contains the most features. It includes all the features of Windows 7 Home Premium and Professional while also adding some additional enterprise-oriented features that were available on the SA-exclusive Windows 7 Enterprise, making it feature-complete with the latter; this edition was also ...

  4. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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    In this case, the copy of Windows installed does not use the product key listed on the certificate of authenticity, but rather a master product key issued to OEMs called a System Locked Pre-installation (SLP) key. On each boot, Windows confirms the presence of specific information stored in the BIOS by the manufacturer, ensuring the activation ...

  5. Crack (password software) - Wikipedia

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    Crack v5.0a [6] released in 2000 did not introduce any new features, but instead concentrated on improving the code and introducing more flexibility, such as the ability to integrate other crypt() variants such as those needed to attack the MD5 password hashes used on more modern Unix, Linux and Windows NT [7] systems. It also bundled Crack v6 ...

  6. Runtime system - Wikipedia

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    In other words, from boot until power-down, the entire OS is dedicated to only the application(s) running within that runtime environment. Any other code that tries to run, or any failures in the application(s), will break the runtime environment. Breaking the runtime environment in turn breaks the OS, stopping all processing and requiring a ...

  7. Windows Anytime Upgrade - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Anytime Upgrade in Windows 7. Anytime Upgrade in Windows 7 no longer performs a full reinstallation of Windows. Components for the upgraded editions are instead pre-installed directly in the operating system; a notable result of this change is that the speed of the upgrade process has been significantly increased.

  8. Windows Ultimate Extras - Wikipedia

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    According to Microsoft's Barry Goffe, the company's goal with Ultimate Extras was to delight customers who purchased the Ultimate edition of Windows Vista, the most expensive retail edition of the operating system. [2] Windows Ultimate Extras have been discontinued as of Windows 7 without a successor planned [3] and the operating system also ...

  9. Windows Runtime - Wikipedia

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    Windows Runtime (WinRT) is a platform-agnostic component and application architecture first introduced in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in 2012. It is implemented in C++ and officially supports development in C++ (via C++/WinRT , C++/CX or WRL), Rust/WinRT , Python/WinRT , JavaScript - TypeScript , and the managed code languages C# and ...