[guispeak] Re: Changing Windows Product Key
- From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 18:18:07 +0100
Sorry to contradict you, Ann, but that's not the actual CD
key.
The CD Key comprised 5 groups of five alpha/numeric digits,
separated by a hyphen.
I have no idea where the number is actually stored on the
system, but if you obtain Belarc Advisor from
http://www.belarc.com (free download) it will tell you what
your own key is.
George.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Ann Byrne
> Sent: 14 May 2005 13:35
> To: guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [guispeak] Re: Changing Windows Product Key
>
> In windows XP, go to control panel and select system.
It's
> on the first tab of that dialog.
> At 03:43 AM 5/14/2005, you wrote:
> >A simple question here, where do I find the product key
that I typed
> >from the cd label in the registry?
> >----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Lange"
<trlange@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 3:33 PM
> >Subject: [guispeak] Changing Windows Product Key
> >
> >
> >>Hey there,
> >>Got a good one for ya. A friend of mine gave his
machine
> to a friend
> >>so that he could upgrade it to Windows XP. The drive was
> reformatted,
> >>XP was installed and the system's working fine. There's
just one
> >>problem; the copy of XP belongs to his friend. My friend
got a
> >>legitimate version of XP but instead of reformatting
again and
> >>reinstalling, what we want to do is change the existing
> product key to
> >>the one on his new XP package and reactivate Windows.
> >>So, we tried the procedure for changing the product key
in the
> >>Registry where you change one of the hex digits at
> >>hkey_localmachine\software\microsoft\windows
> >>nt\currentversion\wpaevents and in the right pane,
change the
> >>OobeTimer value. Then you run
> c:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a to rerun the
activation wizard.
> >>You're supposed to be prompted to reactivate Windows but
the wizard
> >>says that Windows is already activated and you can't see
a button
> >>which lets you change the product key and reactivate.
> >>Alternatively, Microsoft has a wmi script that you can
run
> which does
> >>essentially the same thing but the script fails with a
> generic failure
> >>message.
> >>
> >>Got any ideas? Can we put the legit version of Windows
> right over the
> >>top of what's already in there, and will it reflect the
new
> product key?
> >>Please reply asap, as I want to get this machine out of
here this
> >>morning if I can.
> >>Thanks lots.
> >>Tom
> >>
> >>
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