Pirated XP Pro Question

[VirtualLarry]

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!

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