Avoiding activation after cloning

[Nate]

Hello,

I've created some images of workstations & laptops I recently bought, that came with XP pro pre-installed. I used sysprep to create a deployable image of each of these, and have run into one particular problem. Is there a way to avoid having to activate each of these computers after they have been imaged?
Were I to build them all one by one, without using the image I don't have to activate. Guessing HP has a code that they use.
Thanks,

Nate Weldon.
P.S My XP manual says nothing about this. Just tells me how to use sysprep.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Preserving OEM Pre-Activation when Re-installing Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/oempreac.mspx

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Hello,

I've created some images of workstations & laptops I recently bought, that came with XP pro pre-installed. I used sysprep to create
a deployable image of each of these, and have run into one particular problem. Is there a way to avoid having to activate each of
these computers after they have been imaged?
Were I to build them all one by one, without using the image I don't have to activate. Guessing HP has a code that they use.
Thanks,

Nate Weldon.
P.S My XP manual says nothing about this. Just tells me how to use sysprep.

 

[Guest]

In most cases this isn't a problem anyway, so long as you use an OEM CD and
(legit) OEM serial, and all of the mobo chipsets are identical.

 

[Guest]

I've been having a similar issue and with XPSP2 the link provided no longer
seems to support this as i have found out that XP re quire to be activated
and this serial does not work so i tend to user the initial OEM serial but
have come to logger heads with the times i can sysprep an image OEM key and
hit this "your grace period limit has been reached and will not be reset".....