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Comment NewSID allows for activation reset? (Score 5, Interesting) 201

From the article:

This is called generalizing the image, because when you boot an image created using this process, Sysprep specializes the installation by generating a new machine SID, triggering plug-and-play hardware detection, resetting the product activation clock, and setting other configuration data like the new computer name.

Is the product activation clock reset because of Sysprep, or because the SID is changed?

In other words, could NewSID be used to keep unactivated windows installations running indefinately?

<conspiracy_theory> Would that be the real reason for the NewSID retirement? What's the rush of removing the download instead of leaving it unsupported? </conspiracy_theory>

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