Changing Product Key

Hi Guys, Once Windows is activated is there a way to change the working product key. I just want to see what happens, when you put a wrong product key. Does it ask for activation or what happens. Thanks A.

Windows Software 5498 This topic was started by miku, 2002-09-04 12:51

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miku

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2002-09-04 14:51

Hi Guys,

Once Windows is activated is there a way to change the working product key. I just want to see what happens, when you put a wrong product key. Does it ask for activation or what happens.

Thanks
A.R.

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iks

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2002-09-04 15:07

Hi,

As far as I remember it was somewhere under this registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion
It worked for Windows98/ME so I am not sure how's with WindowsXP...

-Andrej

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2002-09-04 16:27

the ID is stored but not the key
the ID is generated frome the key