Re: registration

From: Steve C. Ray (stevec_at_mail.com)
Date: 02/16/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 10:11:57 -0600

If your version is OEM there is nothing you can do if you lost the Key. It
would be on a sticker with the OEM disk. If you bought a retail boxed
version the Key would be on a orange sticker inside the cardboard folder the
disk came in. If it is the retail version and you lost the folder check
here:
How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[ln];326246

Microsoft can't help you if your XP is OEM. 

-- 
Steve C. Ray
"Jan" <jan.de.brabander(blabla)@mail.ing.nl> wrote in message
news:84235E85-D141-4E11-9D54-6E2A507649E7@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
>
> I bought XP (the home edition) but I never had to use it until now. Now I
have discovered that I don't have the registrationkey anymore. I don't think
I got it at all.
> What can I do? The company I bought it at, is gone. Is it possible that I
send the CD to Microsoft so they can verify this?

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