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Laws and Licensing Conditions



If you are an authorized user of Microsoft Windows NT the laws in some countries give you the right to fully handle the product in any way you want. Therefore you can disassemble the product even in the case you had to agree with the product license forbidding such disassembly as the country laws override any such license agreement.



Microsoft Service Pack



Sometimes you may have the legal license for Microsoft Windows NT but for various technical reasons you do not have the media and/or installation ready at the place of intended use of this project.



Fortunately Microsoft provides free (as in beer) update packages for its Microsoft Windows products called Service Packs; the latest one is Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1a.



This downloadable file contains the full versions of the essential files needed for the current stage of this product: ntfs.sys and ntoskrnl.exe. It even contains cdfs.sys and fastfat.sys for testing purposes.



Service Pack also contains EULA (End User License Agreement) paper disallowing any use of Service Pack outside its original intentions. According to the laws of some countries you need to be authorized user of the Microsoft Windows XP product to be allowed to use the files contained in such Service Pack without the bindings of its EULA. Even the interpretation of such laws may vary.



It would be a breach of the law by the project author to provide automatic (=hidden) functionality to download and extract the Service Pack files. On the other hand it is perfectly legal to ask user for his/her confirmation whether he/she is really the authorized user of Microsoft Windows XP product and download/extract the Service Pack files accordingly.