How to skip entering CD-key after sysprep?

[Thomas Gebhard]

Hi,

I preinstalled XP SP2 and activated it for my customer. In syspref.inf I
entered the CD-key in section [UserData] as ProductID (I also tried
ProductKey)="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx". Then I resealed with sysprep.

Now my problem is, that XP always prompts for the key during Windows
Welcome?

What's goin' wrong here?

Tom

 

[Adam Leinss]

Hi,

I preinstalled XP SP2 and activated it for my customer. In
syspref.inf I entered the CD-key in section [UserData] as
ProductID (I also tried
ProductKey)="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx". Then I resealed with
sysprep.

Now my problem is, that XP always prompts for the key during
Windows Welcome?

What's goin' wrong here?

Tom

It should be ProductID, not ProductKey:

[UserData]
FullName="XXX"
OrgName="XXX"
ProductID="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

Adam

 

[Thomas Gebhard]

Hi Adam,

I wrote that I tried both and none worked!

Tom

Hi,

I preinstalled XP SP2 and activated it for my customer. In
syspref.inf I entered the CD-key in section [UserData] as
ProductID (I also tried
ProductKey)="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx". Then I resealed with
sysprep.

Now my problem is, that XP always prompts for the key during
Windows Welcome?

What's goin' wrong here?

Tom

It should be ProductID, not ProductKey:

[UserData]
FullName="XXX"
OrgName="XXX"
ProductID="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

Adam

 

[dg1261]

I preinstalled XP SP2 and activated it for my customer. In syspref.inf I
entered the CD-key in section [UserData] as ProductID (I also tried
ProductKey)="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx". Then I resealed with sysprep.

IME, that only works for XP-Pro. XP-Home ignores that part of sysprep.inf
and always makes you manually enter it.

 

[Thomas Gebhard]

Hi,

IME, that only works for XP-Pro. XP-Home ignores that part of sysprep.inf
and always makes you manually enter it.

I think, that it does not matter, but it's XP Pro.

Tom

 

[Thomas Gebhard]

The solution: the ProductKey-Value must be set in oobeinfo.ini. In
sysprep.ini it only works with the mini-setup.

Tom