Re: Updating to a Valid Key

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From: BuddyWh (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 02/20/05 

Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 08:47:27 -0500

On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:43:48 +0000, Alex Nichol
<alexn.mvpdts@ntlworld.delete.com> wrote:

>BuddyWh wrote:
>
>>Isn't there something EASY I could do? like a registry edit to change
>>the type of install from "volume license" to "retail"?
>
>No
>
>>Well... that about cooks it for now, then. It looks like pretty
>>involved process, especially since I'll need to reinstall SP1, SP2 and
>>all the other updates, and no telling what it will do to device
>>drivers.
>
>Get the free CD of SP2 from
>http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
>and run it as first thing after the repair reinstall. That will bring
>you almost up to date with only a handful of subsequent security updates

Well... I resolved my problem in a rather interesting way.

Since I am a "work-at-home" employee my boss agreed they would pay for
my XP Pro since it's required to access the work network so they added
me to my employers' volume license. If I didn't want to use my own
computer I would have gotten a laptop, so I guess they're coming out
ahead. (I didn't want to have the responsibility of the laptop if it
should be stolen or damaged).

I brought the system in to work and one of the IT guys installed the
volume license key and I'm set. I do have an 'extra' WindowsXP pro
'retail'... can't take it back since I opened it . I suppose I could
sell it to someone since I never got it activated..

    
  

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