n3m3

Thanks for the reply you all. cluberti,cant type in the key cause its "banned" by MS. I googled the key and i found it on like 1 billion sites,so its no wounder i cant use that one. I was about to change the key anyway cause it will be used as an work machine,so all the software on it must be legit. The key i would like to use is not a "stolen" key,its from my work and its payed for. The 7 digit number i typed was not taken from my comp,i only wrote something to illustrate the difference One says oem and the other says 640. Has anyone uses the sysprep tool to change the installed settings? Ill try it today and give you all some feedback.

Hi you all. I have a small question. I have a quite new system,now i replaced some parts and now it wants to validate windows. I thought that it was a leagel copy of xp but it looks like its not. So i got my self a licence from work,my job will pay for it.(its their multi licence code) this will be a computer that i will use for work. but here comes the problem. I cant get it validated with the new key. when i look at the system properties it says oem and dell,and i dont have a dell. So i think that the cd i used was some kind of coperate version of a dell xp, now i try to validate it with a key that i know works,that i use at work and have ok to use(its a multi licence key) But i only get invalid key. Does the XXXXXX-640-7721335-XXXXX from the system properties have anything to do with the validation? Cause my com at home has XXXXX-Oem-XXXXXXX-XXXXX. And if i change that will i be able to activate it? Thanks in advance n3m3