I don't know this person at all if he bought his copy of XP pro microsoft well help him, if he did not buy his copy which I have know way of knowing, but if he didn't buy and is not regestered owner I hope his troubles multiply, I know lots of people out there have loaded XP with out buying because some asshole found a way around the activation, now these people to me are nothing more than common thievies and I have zero compassion for them, now can a state my position any clearer than that, a relative of mine bought my old pc cheap, i would not give him the XP pro with it i wanted $50 dollars for it, i normally would have installed a new harddrive but he didn't want to spend the money so i reformated the drive and left it blank, he said a friend would install XP pro for $20, I asked if he was getting the disk he said no, so I asked how he was going to activate it, he said his friend new how to disable that feature, so after they were all done I went over to his house and by god the activation feature was deactivated , 1 month goes buy its my relative, my pc barely runs I can't move around the web this sucks he says you sold me a bad pc, so after a very heated argument about the problem I told him to have his friend fix it, his friend says its a hardware problem , well it got real hot real fast I was pissed, so I left 1 week later he calls me back and ask if I would please help, I said I would only if he buys the copy of xp that was used with that pc, he said he would if I could prove that its not a hardware problem, so I grab the copy of xp pro and I go over there, i told him to leave the room so that I could look at his processes, I open it up and there it is bigger than life the none existant process, I disable the process i call him back in all this took 30 seconds , i said i was done he starts laughing at me , i said try your pc so he does after about a min. he turns and looks at me in complete amazement, how and what did u do i said i tell you but than i'd have to kill ya, he laughed i laughed gave me a big old hug, than i said that was the easy part, now you have to call microsoft he squirmed and uttered some foul language and asked why, i told him i could not just reformate, the problem would still be there so he finerly gave in, after about an hour on the phone the tech finely asked to talk to me, he asked what i did i told him he asked how i got that information and i said i couldn't tell him , reason being i got the info from another microsoft tech, he finely asked if my relative would leave the room and he trusted me, so he directed me to a site i loaded what i was suppose to , and reactivated the process and killed it , with the download i just installed, than i reformated the the harddrive installed the legal copy XP pro and activated by phone so we could register that copy in his name ... so my ans. is this don't ask me to help thieves cause it ain't happening