Thank you Troth. Yes, I understand. I have my legitimate XP Pro disk all legal and paid for sitting in it's wrapper! This started out innocent enough when my computer guy put this on for me to try before buying. I had had such a bad experience with XP early on when nothing worked with it so I was very reluctant to go with XP. I finally agreed to let him give me a trial run and then time went by and he did not get back to me to sell me the disk. I was naive enough to think it was already legal and I just needed to pay for it and keep it. When I decided to keep it and tried to pay for it he said not to worry about it. So I didn't until I ran that validation thing from Microsoft and it told me I had a pirated copy. Oh well, long story. Anyway I do have the legal one and the product key is on the front and very long. Thanks again for your help. Joyce ---- Original Message ----- From: "~OoO~" <sirtroth@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Windows XP > Download this, unzip and read it. It's a .doc file (MS Word). It'll > explain > finding the bad key and replacing it with a new 'valid' key. NOTE: This is > not a heck to bypass or activate an illegitimate XP copy. You still need > to > get a valid key. All this tells you is how to find the bad key, and how to > put the new key in. > > Unzip password is: pctechtalk > > DOWNLOAD: > http://www.sirtroth.com/xp_product_key.zip > > ---Troth > > > -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/