What's the point of this?

[Videogamer555]

Activation servers are down, so even if you get a working cd-key for installing XP, it only runs for like 30 days before you need to activate. CD keys are all over the internet already. Most have been blacklisted by MS, but that only matters for downloading Windows updates (which MS blocks if the CD key is blacklisted), which by the way doesn't even matter anymore because the Windows Update servers for Windows XP are no also longer running. So the easiest solution is to just find some CD keys from a Google search for Windows XP CD keys. This entire keygen is useless.

What's NOT useless is this OTHER Windows XP keygen, which has only been released very recently (despite Windows XP being decades old). I don't now if the hackers who made it did so long ago but never made it public until now, or one of the hacker's friends just leaked it recently or what. This is a keygen for ACTIVATING Windows XP. You still have the option in Windows XP to activate by phone, where you can call a number (which I'm sure has long ago been disconnected) where you type in the installation key (new key random generated every time you open up the Windows Activation software to try to activate Windows XP), and then someone on the other end of the phone reads back the validation key that you need to type in. Someone managed to figure out the algorithm used to generate the validation key from the installation key, and made this keygen.

There's a news article about it over at https://www.tomshardware.com/news/windows-xp-offline-activation and that article links to this Reddit post https://old.reddit.com/r/windowsxp/comments/wwjy5j/windows_xp_web_activation_is_finally_dead/ilmr5s3/ . The reddit post linked to the keygen here on Google Drive https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sxKZ6pcZYqhI8m850m4-jSMvDuGxiJ1c/view?usp=sharing but that was taken down due to copyright violation. Further along in that same reddit post is a link someone posted to archive.org where they had uploaded it after having downloaded it from Google Drive.

Here's the archive.org link for it https://archive.org/details/xp_activate32_202305