XP registration Q

[ThePerfectCore]

Okay, I searched and searched, both here on the forums and Google, and couldn't find the answer. It seems to have disappeared.

I might actually invest in my own copy of XP Home/Pro soon (yes, yes, shut up, all of you ). Haven't decided which yet.

Anyway, I remember seeing a few threads here on the forums and elsewhere a few months back that described a single system file that was created after registration to tell the OS that it had been registered with MS, which one could copy to a system directory somewhere to save themselves a phone call after installation.

My questions are these: where is that file? Does it exist somewhere? Or am I remembering something totally different?

 

[Yuriman]

Well, my friend gave me the corporate edition cd(wont ask where he got it), so i dont have to worry about that. I have home installed and is never said a word about activation. BTW, it is a legitimate cd.

 

[timmyqwest]

BTW, it is a legitimate cd.

that may be true but that doesnt make it leagal for you to use it

 

[ThePerfectCore]

I have home installed and is never said a word about activation.

Eh? That's funny, I just installed XP Home OEM on a machine I built a few days ago, it had to phone home.

 

[redduc900]

If you're doing a repair reinstall of XP on the same hardware, you can back up the activation status and then restore it after you run the repair install of the OS. To save the activation status, back up the wpa.dbl file from the %systemroot%\system32 folder to a floppy disk.

After the repair install of the OS is complete, start in Minimal Safe mode | Open the \%systemroot%\system32 folder | Rename wpa.dbl to wpa.noact | Copy the backed up wpa.dbl file to the system32 folder | Reboot your system.

This isn't a hack to avoid activating installations and will work only on the same hardware for an XP installation that you've already activated.

 

[ThePerfectCore]

This isn't a hack to avoid activating installations and will work only on the same hardware for an XP installation that you've already activated.

Well I figured that.

Thanks for the info.

 

[SinsFeelNatural]

this reminds me a couple years ago when I was in college getting my associates in IT.

I bought a copy of Office 2000 and in the two years I had to reformat my hardrive about 30 times for class prodjects but the 8th time I called microsoft about reactivating it they accused me of pirating the software and placed me on a list and I was suppose to wait for them to call me back about recatifying the situation..

Never got the call

Never was able to reactivate 2000...... the rest of the story is left out...............................

 

[ThePerfectCore]

Office 2000 needs over-the-phone activation?

WTF? Since when?

 

[SinsFeelNatural]

Office 2000 needs over-the-phone activation?

WTF? Since when?

well it will run I think about 30 times before you need to call in and activate it, Keep in mind this was back in 99-2000 I believe it may be different now. it was such a pain in the ***.

 

[ThePerfectCore]

Weird, when I had a copy of it, all I had to do was type in the key and it ran for however long I needed it. Had to give it back to a friend along with his PC, though...