Okay. Replaced tokens.dat and pkeyconfig from Windows 2000 VM... Check.
Booted up VM. Check. (Date: Dec 02 2007)
Got to the desktop with no activation reminder. Good.
Restart 6519.
Changed BIOS date to today (Dec 9 2009, 8:11 PM GMT+8)
Started VM.
No activation nags.
Winkey+E, Alt, Halp>About Windows. No bomb.
Task Manager. No bomb.



Do I win a cake?

DISCLAIMER: No (other) system files were harmed in the making of lulz.

nice.. but im worryed how this might be used by the bad guys

because activashion is dissabled

This is what people wanted all along, a debomber for 6519.
BTW, major side effect: control.exe is [censored]. Oops. Time to open up WinLogon in IDA. Too bad Win.OCM aint here anymore.

yah but if you do the same thing to 7600 no real cd key needed

any chance you might do same for 6801 build

OT:
the code i sent you removes activation

i tried before with replaced tokens and pkeyconfig from 7 RTM
but bomb still stays

and BTW, why did you choose from Win2000 ?

What happened to Win.OCM!?

yeah, I saw Windows OCManage here yesterday

Good work on the de-bomber. Could you try replacing control.exe with the windows 2000 one, and set the compatiblity mode to Windows 2000?

Why not see what calls are getting 'lost' in the current control.exe, and then re-route them to the current calls that are found (and suitaable to use)
EDIT: Or someone codes a replacement Control Panel that uses regestry keys for almost all of the dirty work? (shouldn't be too hard, i use reg keys on some locked down systems at school, enables aero, changes color, messes with background, all under restricted privlages)

Nice, I bet that took you while, lol 1 month isn't it. Is there still BSOD's every two hours.

Look at his signature.

Basically, he left.

He still kicks around #nttalk on Freenode, and OSBG, EABG, OSBA, and a bunch of other places.

He left because of the flame wars, I think?

YEah he told me himself. I told him to stay but he didnt want to-but he still PMs me and stuff.

Hmm... I'm mucking around in IDA atm. (BTW, the VM's been on for ~5 hours eating CPU cycles and it hasn't BSODed. If it did, it would have sent a really painfully screeching sound.)
There seems to be a bit of code that checks a file (dunno what it is, tho.) and if it returns a certain value, it halts control.exe's execution (leaving you with either a blank CPL or none at all.)

BTW, Win2k's contol.exe does not work on Win7.
I took tokens and pkeyconfig from Vista SP2, Ultimate. Chose Win2k because it's simple and boots quick.

NOTE: if you want to do this yourself, make sure to NTFS COMPRESS tokens.dat . I can't stress it enough.
And yes, took me about a month to figure it out. And around 40 reinstalls of 6519.

Nice work, PortalCake.

With Windows 7 Toolkit i fixed this build up, and got hidden desktop wallpaper, i was surprised that those were even in 6519

Also Superbar looks quite nice and i found (vista) drivers for graphic card, sound card and internet, which working great.
I tried even to install DiRT 2 which runs quite well

Till i got how i can copy those files in i just searched for a long time and found it out finally, i restarted the system and the control panel was empty after restarting also "Display" and "Personalize" don't work when i right click on desktop.
Also the enabled aero before restart was gone...

Some pics:







Overall pretty good work debombing it

I have aero working 100%.
BTW, debombing each of these builds manually sucks.
Head on to my forums (http://phobos.co.tv) so that we'd make a universal debomber for Win6 and above.
(system driver, perhaps)

Great idea though, good luck finishing this project

Any chance you could upload these tokens.dat and pkeyconfig for us here who does not have windows 2000? Or is there another way to get it to work?

win2000 doesn't have those files, I think only late vista builds got them (not sure which builds)

he ment that he booted OS in virtual machine installed on win2000
you need files from either vista RTM or SP1 as early win7 was probably based on something among those versions of vista