XP Key Changer

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Browsing Tucows today and came across this program which allows to change Windows XP Product Key,Owner and Registered Organization.

Under what circumstances would this be useful?

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For example, if you or your company changes your/its name, you might want to see the correct information on Control Panel -> System.

All the program does, presumably, is to automate the two changes you would make using REGEDIT…

BATcher

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Yes, I can see that, but the Product Key? Wouldn’t this render the copy of windows invalid?

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Yes, I can see that, but the Product Key? Wouldn’t this render the copy of windows invalid?

Yes, that might be possible (I don’t know), but it does seem a long way round. AFAIK, the install media (CD) has no way of ‘knowing’ the key. As an example, we can install Windows from a slipstreamed CD, as long as we use a unique key (not used on any other computer). This will only be checked when we activate Windows.

Chris

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One case it could prove useful is if you have a valid windows key but no install media and want to to a clean reinstall. You could borrow someone’s install media, install using thier key and then change it to yours.

Jerry

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Ty, Jerry. Now that could be usefull. I kinda thot that’s what it did, but it seemed too good to be true.

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