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Aug 16, 2013 windows XP Professional product key. Java Project Tutorial - Make Login and Register Form Step by Step Using NetBeans And MySQL Database - Duration: 3:43:32. 1BestCsharp blog 5,130,240 views. Besides, the downloaded image is mostly for Windows XP VL edition, and is not suitable for OEM product key, which pasted on COA sticker on PC. Even for IT professionals who legitimately download Windows XP and obtain serial numbers from MSDN or TechNet subscriptions, the ISO images and product keys may get mixed up between OEM, retail or volume license (VL) version if not been labeled or managed properly.
Well, after almost about two months, i finally got a chance to write a small post.Last week I got a computer to install XP on it. But the XP CD was missing. I had only the box with the CD key. Eventhough I had XP Home OEM versions I could not use them since they do not accept retail version keys.
I had to dig a little deep to find a way to install that. And finally it worked.It is a very easy edit, yet not something that is guaranteed to work.Windows identifies its version from a configuration file called setupp.ini (path: CD DRIVE:i386SETUPP.INI). It has the version information and the information about the key it accepts.a sample setupp.ini would look like,PIDExtraData=736F696F697911AE7E05Pid=55034000I dont know what 'ExtraData' field would do, but what we need is the second part. The field called PID. The first 5 digits of the PID identifies the version information together with the CD release information. The next 3 characters tells the installer what keys to be accepted.Retail versions has last 3 characters 000, andOEM versions has those 3 characters OEM, whereasVolume licence keys will be accepted as 270(more information on the bottom)So all you have to do is to change those values to mach with the CD and the key you are using.
For instance, If you are using a retail CD, you might have a PID similar toPid=55034000.So if you want to use an OEM key with that change tha last 3 charsPid=55034OEMeasy huh?Well, First off, It did work for me fine. And also I had no problem activating XP via phone. But there might be problems activating online (as some suggested,) And for some reason the second disk I tries did not work. They had different PIDs.And Some have mentioned that newer versions check the CDs volume label too and will decline the key if an invalid volume label was found. So change the volume label too in case.And also, If you are wondering how the hell are you going to change a file in a CD, here's how you do it.1. Copy all the files in the CD to a folder (say, for instance C:/XPCD)2.
Change the setupp.ini file as I mentioned,3. Use to make a CD Image from that folder.Start (first download and install,) Nlite,Select the folder that you created,Choose the last step when it asks for what to do, 'Make a bootable ISO'Make the ISO, and burn it into a disk.It took me somtime to collect these information.
Hopefully the next person wont have to spend that much time.!! And please, if you try this, please comment your experience, Did it work or not?? Anonymoussaid.I already have my WinXP Pro CD - its an OEM CD with XP Pro version 1.0 (pre-SP1 from 2004) and it will not install on my machine that now has a new Mobo, new CPU and new HDD after a failure of the Mobo and CPU. This Windows version will not install on a HDD bigger than 137GB (mine is 500GB). My supplier does not have WinXP Pro SP2 available and has suggested I buy a new retail version!
MS will not activate my install (done with the SP2 OEM CD that came with my HP Laptop). So I have nowhere to go right now - any ideas?