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TTeverywhere
February 14th, 2003, 10:46 PM
Greeetings :)

1st, I did read through this topic/sticky: "ID-Blaster Plus v2.0 is released!" but didn't see a clear answer to the following:

On the assumption that M$ requires/utilizes one's ID in order to determine what upgrades/patches/fixes are needed, how does install and use of ID Blaster affect one's ability to function correctly in getting M$ patches, etc.?

One other question occurred to me:

Does IDBlaster need to run at start-up, or are the randomized IDs static once IDBlaster has randomized them? I have a real problem w/resources (old, slow machine) and so I run the actual start-up as leanly as possible.

TIA for your answers :D
m

javacool
February 15th, 2003, 10:33 AM
-{ Quote: " quoting: TTeverywhere link=board=32;threadid=7288;start=0#48304 date=1045280804]
Greeetings :)

1st, I did read through this topic/sticky: "ID-Blaster Plus v2.0 is released!" but didn't see a clear answer to the following:

On the assumption that M$ requires/utilizes one's ID in order to determine what upgrades/patches/fixes are needed, how does install and use of ID Blaster affect one's ability to function correctly in getting M$ patches, etc.?" }-

You're in luck - MS doesn't use any ID numbers that ID-Blaster Plus randomizes by default to determine what upgrades/patches/fixes/etc. are needed. So ID-Blaster should not cause any issues in this regard.

-{ Quote: "One other question occurred to me:

Does IDBlaster need to run at start-up, or are the randomized IDs static once IDBlaster has randomized them? I have a real problem w/resources (old, slow machine) and so I run the actual start-up as leanly as possible.

TIA for your answers :D
m
" }-

ID-Blaster needs to run at startup (if it isn't the randomized IDs will stay static, as you guessed). You can minimize ID-Blaster Plus to the system tray, and set it to randomize at intervals. (And it uses little memory.)

Best regards,

-Javacool

spy1
February 15th, 2003, 10:50 AM
How's about the idea to have IDB save all the original ID #'s automatically within the IDB folder itself? So that there's no chance of forgetting to write them all down, hmmm? Pete

javacool
February 15th, 2003, 11:10 AM
-{ Quote: " quoting: spy1 link=board=32;threadid=7288;start=0#48367 date=1045324208]
How's about the idea to have IDB save all the original ID #'s automatically within the IDB folder itself? So that there's no chance of forgetting to write them all down, hmmm? Pete
" }-

It is being worked on. 8)

Best regards,

-Javacool