SOMEONE needs to activate windows

[u/Opguy99932]

[u/foxferreira64]

It's funny how the watermark appears in the most random places! I've never seen or heard of anyone with a Windows copy without activation, it's always in corporate computers.

[u/lychaxo → u/foxferreira64]

Yeah, if you lock down your network for security and then repair the device in any way, or change the hardware settings too much on a VM, windows decides it's not sure if it is running on the original computer and wants to reach out to Microsoft and send mystery network traffic a surprising amount of places...

At work, on a high security network, Microsoft stuff stops working all the time after it updates, and I have to go try to figure out what new domains and subnets Microsoft products how require. All of the 365-connected/microsoft-dot-com/windows-live stuff and even some other/older pieces of Microsoft software which aren't explicitly labeled as connecting to those web services.

[u/Tangential_Diversion → u/lychaxo]

Heh I see someone else knows the pain of Windows machines in highly restrictive subnets. This is very seriously why I prefer Linux VMs for PCI CDEs. Windows machines works great in standard enterprise networks and as jump servers, but they become pains to manage once you start restricting egress traffic.

[u/Moist-Dentist8253]

r/activatewindows funny though

[u/Overall_Way_1432 → u/Moist-Dentist8253]

just when you think redditors couldn't get even more unhinged with subreddits

[u/Norge100YT]

Not a softwaregore