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Pirated XP Pro Question

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Originally posted by: compusaguy
You geeks have absolutely no sense of humor. I actually feel sorry for you. But it's okay, because I absolutely hate 99.9999% of all geeks. Does that make me believe this shiite story this person made up about him not knowing that you need to pay for a Windows OS on your custon built computer? Hell no. Any moron would know that!
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Ok, so who were you before you were banned? And before that? DrCool, user1234, is that you?

Anyways, I seem to recall that deleting the file that contains the "activation data" will cause Windows to prompt to re-activate the next time that you boot. However, since your copy was installed with a VLK (I assume) key, then it still likely will not, unless you delete the existing VLK-based Product-key and Product-id out of the registry. Hopefully, after all of that, it will prompt.

I also think that MS, or one of their close 3rd-party sites, had a VBScript up at one point in time, that would help to do exactly what you are trying to do, re-install over a "pirated" OS copy, using a legit one with a key.

Here's one version of it
MSKB article
 
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