It is getting difficult to download anything from Microsoft without a valid serial number. It pays to have a valid serial number on all of your machines – in more ways than just keeping the BSA happy. The activation wizard should load and tell you your copy of windows has already been activated. You can then check if the serial number has been changed, and is valid by calling this at the command line: XPChangeSerial.vbs xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx Simply save the script file to a convient location, and call it from the command line using the new serial number: While it's probably less common these days, many people still use product key generators or other illegal tools to get product keys that work to install Windows only to find out later, when they try to activate Windows, that their original plan isn't going to work out. Serial Change script for XP w/sp1 or greater: XPChangeSerialSP1.vbs WMI Script - ChangeVLKey.vbs ' ' This script changes the product key on. Serial Change script for XP: XPChangeSerial.vbs Microsoft has provided two scripts for updating a Windows XP serial number. In these situations it is nice to change the machine to a valid serial number without having to totally re-install the operating system. Right from the start I make sure the customer purchases the proper licensing from Microsoft – It only takes one call from an angry employee to cause the company a world of grief. Many times when I start working at a new customer I find a few copies of XP that have a pirated serial number, or the same number used over and over.
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