Win2000 CD-KEY issue

[Mark]

There are two Windows 2000 Professional computers. When Windows 2000
Professional had been reinstalled on one of the two computers, the user
accidentally used the Windows 2000 Professional CD-KEY for the second
computer rather than the first computer. We would like to enter the correct
Windows 2000 Professional CD-KEY on the first computer.

How can we enter the correct Windows 2000 Professional CD-KEY on the first
computer? Is this possible through editing the Windows Registry through the
following two registry entries?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion]
"ProductId"="{ProductId}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion]
"ProductId"="{ProductId}"

 

[Kenneth Fritz]

I'm not sure about newer systems like windows 2000, but in windows 95 the
serial was built into system\user.exe - perhaps you should check your
equivalent of that file to see if it still applies.
If it does I don't know how safe it is to alter the file.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Don't worry about it. As long as you have two licenses, it doesn't matter if
you used the same CD for both installs. This is pretty common.