I have 2 PC's w/ one XP Home OEM working on both PC's

[Guest]

Here's something all you MS-Gurus might help me out with, I have 2 systems, both are the same config. same mobo, same video card, same HD , ect. Now my roomie wanted to re-install XP Home, cuz he had some problems beyond repair, so He took one of my Norton Ghost Images of XP home, and install it on his system, it worked, and didn't trigge
activation, now both his and my XP Home is the same OEM copy, but, yet, both are working an opertational, how can that be? I keep waiting for one of them to tirgger MS activation, but, so far, nothing has happened? Now he has his own OEM product key, so if and when it needs activation, he can put-in-his- correct product key? Is their anyway way possible to trigger activation on his system, so that he can correct this problem, we tried a few of the reg-edit tweaks to trigger activtion, we called MS, and they said, "Don't worry about it untill you see an activation screen, now, isn't that in violation of the EULA??? sounds to me like it would be? I wanna Fix this problem, to make it LEGAL, but, so far, MS doesn't care about my problem, how strange is that??? anyone want to jump in on this problem
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[Harry Ohrn]

How do you spell t-r-o-l-l ?

 

[Alex Nichol]

Here's something all you MS-Gurus might help me out with, I have 2 systems, both are the same config. same mobo, same video card, same HD , ect. Now my roomie wanted to re-install XP Home, cuz he had some problems beyond repair, so He took one of my Norton Ghost Images of XP home, and install it on his system, it worked, and didn't trigger
activation, now both his and my XP Home is the same OEM copy, but, yet, both are working an opertational, how can that be? I keep waiting for one of them to tirgger MS activation, but, so far, nothing has happened? Now he has his own OEM product key, so if and when it needs activation, he can put-in-his- correct product key?

It may have been a near enough match of hardware - this is not
impossible, just very unlikely. And of course if they were machines
from the same maker, then both may have been BIOS locked to the same
BIOS.

ANyway go to Activate by Phone and before actually phoning there is a
chance to change the Product key. USe it; accept; cancel before making
the call, then get on the net and activate that way

 

[kurttrail]

Here's something all you MS-Gurus might help me out with, I have 2
systems, both are the same config. same mobo, same video card, same
HD , ect. Now my roomie wanted to re-install XP Home, cuz he had some
problems beyond repair, so He took one of my Norton Ghost Images of
XP home, and install it on his system, it worked, and didn't trigger
activation, now both his and my XP Home is the same OEM copy, but,
yet, both are working an opertational, how can that be? I keep
waiting for one of them to tirgger MS activation, but, so far,
nothing has happened? Now he has his own OEM product key, so if and
when it needs activation, he can put-in-his- correct product key? Is
their anyway way possible to trigger activation on his system, so
that he can correct this problem, we tried a few of the reg-edit
tweaks to trigger activtion, we called MS, and they said, "Don't
worry about it untill you see an activation screen, now, isn't that
in violation of the EULA??? sounds to me like it would be? I wanna
Fix this problem, to make it LEGAL, but, so far, MS doesn't care
about my problem, how strange is that??? anyone want to jump in on
this problem?

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windowsxp/articles/changeID.htm

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[kurttrail]

How do you spell t-r-o-l-l ?

H-A-R-R-Y-O-H-M!

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[kurttrail]

H-A-R-R-Y-O-H-M!

H A double R Y O H M spells WinTroll, that's Harry! ;-)

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[Guest]

I found a way, and it worked!!!!

Actually it won't be that hard to fix it.

First: restart the computer in safe mode.
Second delete wpa.dbl from X:\WINDOWS\system32where X: is the drive XP is installed on.

Restart the computer in regular mode.
In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
In the left pane, locate and then click the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\Current Version\WPAEvents
In the right pane, right-click OOBETimer, and then click Modify.
Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows.

Then proceed to run: Start - run
%systemroot%\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe /a then press ok.

- This loads the normal activation wizard.

When that window appears on the screen:
Click Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows, and then click Next.
Click Change Product key button. Type the new product key in the New key boxes, and then click Update.

Proceed to activate using normal activation procedures.

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