Nope. It's just a question of whether your copy is registered/unregistered.

>>156458
Registered? Excuse me, but what exactly does that mean?

>>156458
Rubbish.

SP1 includes the "Your Windows is not Genuine" update, which detects a bunch of the old methods of pirating Windows.

The whole KMS hack came about because you can't tamper with Windows' activation components anymore (or it sets that update's alarm off).

The preferred way nowadays is to use SLP with a BIOS that contains an appropriate SLIC certificate; a loader that patches the ACPI before Windows loads is okay, I guess (frankly I'm baffled as to why Windows doesn't spot a butchered copy of Grub inserting itself into the boot process*, but apparently it doesn't**).


* the elephant in the room with Secure Boot is that as well as preventing rootkits from loading, it also prevents "loaders".
** rumour is that the drive towards robust piracy protections was lipservice for the antitrust lawsuit, and Ballmer and SatNad both prefer the "we'd rather you pirated our shit than installed our competition's" philosophy from the 9x era.

>>156461
I'm sorry, but my knowledge of computers is fairly limited, could you please explain what you said? I really appreciate the help, and I apologize for the inconvenience

Is there any way of installing the Service Pack without getting the pirated copy detected? Without having to do that, as it seems fairly complex and I fear I could mess it up, or reinstalling Windows?

>>156469
Not him, but basically you'd have to download individual Windows Updates.

Certain ones will break your setup, so try looking up which ones they are. I don't know what they are offhand, unfortunately.

>>156493
>>156469
This only applies if you're using a Windows that was cracked the way a conventional application might be. Simply patching out the activation check was a common way of pirating Windows back when Windows 7 was new (which was nearly seven years ago now).

There's an update in Service Pack 1 that detects tampering with the activation system.

If you're using a modern method which keeps the activation system untouched and tricks it into thinking it's been preinstalled on a Dell or is talking to an enterprise activation server, then you are (somewhat bizarrely given how easy these techniques are to detect) absolutely fine.

>>156493
You can only get so far not installing the service pack, because all the updates released after it won't install without it.

>>156498
Not OP, mine says "pre-activated". Does that suggest what method was used?

>>156457
OP, since your pc knowledge is obviously limited why don't you just download a win7 distribution that comes with SP1 already in it, and do a clean install? Plenty of them available.

>>156457
no such software may disable the OS except the install