Microsoft says Windows 11 is becoming an agent operating system designed primarily for PCs with ARM processors running local AI.
Perhaps, in this regard, the operating system developers have completely eliminated any possibility of activating pirated offline operating systems by completely disabling and “cleaning up” the GatherOSstate function, which helps activate Windows even without Internet access. Without this function, the KMS38 trigger developed by MASSGRAVE cannot work; “MAS” in the acronym stands for Microsoft Activation Script. “Cheating” and activating the system occurs by bypassing the GatherOSstate EXE file.
KMS38 has extended the activation period to 2038. With the latest Patch Tuesday update (November 2025, KB5068861, KB5067112), this method has stopped working. And before that, in January 2024, the Gatherosstate.exe system file was removed from the installation package, which reset the update grace period.
Now KMS38 has been completely deleted. MASSGRAVE recommends using the HWID or TSforge activation methods. But it's clear that Microsoft will control these methods.
