Re: Windows XP Home.

From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 03/10/04


Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:26:23 +0000

Ken Baker G3SPX wrote:

>I have an original Windows XP Home and have lost the reg number to install
>it with. How do you find this out again please?

get the free Aida 32, enterprise edition from
http://www.aida32.hu/aida-download.php?bit=32
which is an excellent general System Info tool, and its Software -
Licenses page will tell you the one used for Windows and ones for
several other items.

Note that if the machine came with XP installed, this will probably give
a key used in producing an original image, then cloned to all machines
they make. So it is not the one for a reinstall. But then the key will
be on a label on the case of the machine

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)


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