The "Official" RC download for Technet/MSDN

[darkassain]

maybe I'll download when it is available for public download and do a bit for bit comparison of the two iso's.

I doubt that any typical hacker could hide his / her work so well that both the hashes (CRC32, MD5, SHA1) AND the bit comparisons would agree 100% with the "Official download".

If they are THAT good I'm sure they would be working on "more productive and profitable" activities not necessarily legal either.

It's just that I've got my main machine running so nicely I really don't want to "undo and untangle" it all again.

Cheers
jimbo

lol
you just dont know with humans though...
humans can do the most irrational things these days....
i doubt that any hacker can crack a SHA hash and masquerade a download without a giant amount of computer power (i dont even think the world's computers has such power to crack the algorithm in time... i mean it leaked a few days after it was compiled...)
anyways it would have made news on the secuirity front as this is unheard of (at least with SHA) to be able to masquerade such a download...

 

[jimbo45]

lol
you just dont know with humans though...
humans can do the most irrational things these days....
i doubt that any hacker can crack a SHA hash and masquerade a download without a giant amount of computer power (i dont even think the world's computers has such power to crack the algorithm in time... i mean it leaked a few days after it was compiled...)
anyways it would have made news on the secuirity front as this is unheard of (at least with SHA) to be able to masquerade such a download...

That's what I thought.

At the current state of the art I doubt if all the entire planets computers together running for the rest of the lifetime of the Sun (approx 5 Billion years left although Earth will be totally uninhabitable for humans after approx 500 million years -- nothing to do with Human activity -- just the way the sun works --as it "consumes" its nuclear hydrogen converting to helium it gets over time slightly brighter, larger and hotter -- another topic however)
would be sufficient to crack the algorithm.

(Don't get me started on "Quantum Computers" however).

I might download the official RC after the initial feeding frenzy has died away but I'm more than happy at the moment.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[nate42nd]

What are you smoking? Something better than me

Keep smoking Jimbo

 

[Robert Cartman]

Can somebody tell me why I can not remove the watermark?
I tried it two ways, but it is still here! In the build7000 it wasn't problem.
Has something changed?

I tried these:
-"bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off"
- RemoveWatermarkX86.exe
none of them helped.

 

[Orbital Shark]

In all honesty, running a crack to remove the watermark is a bad idea. If it's worked before then you're just lucky, it can herald unpredictable results which could result in an unstable OS. Most of the time i would think that you use full screen apps so you don't notice the watermark.

 

[jimbo45]

What are you smoking? Something better than me

Keep smoking Jimbo

You mean this stuff - still there but this pic was taken before the Euro. This stall is STILL there selling as usual.

Cheers
jimbo

 

[Max7]

maybe I'll download when it is available for public download and do a bit for bit comparison of the two iso's.

I doubt that any typical hacker could hide his / her work so well that both the hashes (CRC32, MD5, SHA1) AND the bit comparisons would agree 100% with the "Official download".

If they are THAT good I'm sure they would be working on "more productive and profitable" activities not necessarily legal either.

It's just that I've got my main machine running so nicely I really don't want to "undo and untangle" it all again.

Cheers
jimbo

If the ISO you got has the same hash values of the official RC then IT IS the "real" RC regardless of where you got it.

 

[MUff1N]

Can somebody tell me why I can not remove the watermark?
I tried it two ways, but it is still here! In the build7000 it wasn't problem.
Has something changed?

I tried these:
-"bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off"
- RemoveWatermarkX86.exe
none of them helped.

I don't recommend this to others as I don't know how good their computer skills are or how good their security is but....(as far as locating & downloading Plus Patch 9, lots of nasties out there!)

I used Orbit30's Plus Patch 9 final & it removed it with no problem & everything still works perfectly. I also installed DreamScene with it too.

Keep in mind I upgraded from build 7077 to RC 7100.
Not sure if that would have any effect on this or not.

 

[7Heaven]

Can somebody tell me why I can not remove the watermark?
I tried it two ways, but it is still here! In the build7000 it wasn't problem.
Has something changed?

I tried these:
-"bcdedit.exe /set testsigning off"
- RemoveWatermarkX86.exe
none of them helped.

Google "watermark removal script" theres two versions X86 X64.

Works on all versions and has no adverse effect.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Google "watermark removal script" theres two versions X86 X64.

Works on all versions and has no adverse effect.

Yeah, and Avast detected a virus at the first link I clicked; :sarc: go ahead and Google it.

What does the watermark hurt being there, it doesn't bother me; I was just curious.










Later :shock: Ted

 

[7Heaven]

Yeah, and Avast detected a virus at the first link I clicked; :sarc: go ahead and Google it.

What does the watermark hurt being there, it doesn't bother me; I was just curious.









Later :shock: Ted

Thats a risk we take when downloading, thats why we have Anti-Virus.

I have both versions with no virus.

Some don't want the watermark there, each to his own.

 

[drazenn]

I remember the rush about leaks of every single build coming out after 7000.And,of course,I was part of it,too.I downloaded and burned every,I mean every build till now,but when decided to install it,I would read somewhere about leak of new build,and put a "current" build beside.
And the funniest thing is that today,at the end of the story,I have all builds burned on DVDs,but still running 7000.
So,I'll wait few more days,download "official" RC(no matter I already have 7100 burned on DVD),and make a clean install.

 

[Robert Cartman]

I was also hesitate a lot on installing other versions after the 7000, because it worked fine. But when I downloaded the RC I had to install it.
The funniest thing is that I didn't had ANY problems with the 7000, but with the RC I have a lot! For example: I still can't remove the watermark, and my DVD RW's driver doesn't work whit this build! I can not understand it, because with the 7000 it was fine.
Can somebody help me to find a driver to this: OPTIRAC DVD RW AD 7200S

 

[wguimb]

I was also hesitate a lot on installing other versions after the 7000, because it worked fine. But when I downloaded the RC I had to install it.
The funniest thing is that I didn't had ANY problems with the 7000, but with the RC I have a lot! For example: I still can't remove the watermark, and my DVD RW's driver doesn't work whit this build! I can not understand it, because with the 7000 it was fine.
Can somebody help me to find a driver to this: OPTIRAC DVD RW AD 7200S

That's a generic drive for several manufacturers, including Sony.
Here's you google search with good results.

[URL="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=7200&as_epq=OPTIRAC&as_oq=&as_eq=&num=100&lr=&as_filetype=&ft=i&as_sitesearch=&as_qdr=y&as_rights=&as_occt=any&cr=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&safe=images"]- Google Search[/URL]

 

[MUff1N]

I was also hesitate a lot on installing other versions after the 7000, because it worked fine. But when I downloaded the RC I had to install it.
The funniest thing is that I didn't had ANY problems with the 7000, but with the RC I have a lot! For example: I still can't remove the watermark, and my DVD RW's driver doesn't work whit this build! I can not understand it, because with the 7000 it was fine.
Can somebody help me to find a driver to this: OPTIRAC DVD RW AD 7200S

You should have posted this in the "Drivers" section of the forum where it would get the attention it needed.

 

[wguimb]

Yea and that too.

 

[96accord]

I will wait until May 5th.

I don't do Bit Torrent.

 

[MUff1N]

I will wait until May 5th.

I don't do Bit Torrent.

I didn't either until the RC leaked, then my curiosity got the best of me & I had to have it!
I was amazed at the download speeds (3mbs av) of the new BitTorrent client! :shock:

But that was on the 24th & now the public RC is only days away so I'd wait for it now too.

 

[AlexGP]

I think MS`s servers are gonna be even more overloaded on 5th of may!

 

[EaglePC]

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