{"id":102,"date":"2008-11-14T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2008-11-14T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-14T15:21:00","slug":"blue-badge-patch-for-windows-7-unlocks-additional-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2008\/11\/blue-badge-patch-for-windows-7-unlocks-additional-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Badge patch for Windows 7 unlocks additional features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"dnn_ctr583_ContentPane\" class=\"DNNAligncenter\"><span id=\"spBody\" class=\"Forum_Normal\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/neowin.net\/images\/news\/newlogos\/ms_win7.gif\" alt=\"http:\/\/neowin.net\/images\/news\/newlogos\/ms_win7.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On November 2, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/2008\/11\/02\/flashy-windows-7-bits-protected-by-elaborate-scheme-workaround\/\">Rafael Rivera<\/a>, announced that his indications that the Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 has some locked additional options, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/2008\/11\/02\/flashy-windows-7-bits-protected-by-elaborate-scheme-workaround\/\">were right<\/a>. The locked content is primarily related to the UI that actually is one of the most looked-upon things in Windows 7. By his notices, it is not hard to conclude that some contents are locked with reason, because they are far away from stable, even for a pre-beta release.<\/p>\n<p>He explained the type of protection that Win7 PB build 6801 has on his entry, and a way how he got to it. The entry also includes the way to get that content yourself.<\/p>\n<p>By that scheme, an unlocking tool, called the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.withinwindows.com\/2008\/11\/09\/blue-badge-tool-now-available-unlocks-all-known-protected-features\/\">Blue Badge<\/a> is available for download. This tool should make the already announced steps much easier. Of course, this is still a risky operation, and you take it on your own risk.<br \/>These files are to be patched with Blue Badge. The patch is available only for x86 versions; the x64 is still not released.<br \/><strike><br \/>If case you already have a superbar patch applied, Blue Badge will NOT work.<\/strike> Correction, users have reported that the Blue Badge will work even with the superbar patch applied.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"linked-image\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/images\/icons\/warnicon.gif\" border=\"0\" \/>Please use caution when installing it on your system!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/neowin.net\/news\/main\/08\/11\/11\/blue-badge-patch-for-windows-7-temporary-locked-options\">neowin.net\/news\/main\/08\/11\/11\/blue-badge-patch-for-windows-7-temporary-locked-options<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 2, Rafael Rivera, announced that his indications that the Windows 7 Pre-Beta Build 6801 has some locked additional options, were right. The locked content is primarily related to the UI that actually is one of the most looked-upon things in Windows 7. By his notices, it is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}