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Foxpro DOS will not work in XP x64. I use Foxpro DOS just fine in XP x32.
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the first time i ever reformatted my PC using my Windows XP Pro disc, i couldnt activate over the internet.
What is "My XP Pro Disc"? If it's a Retail Full or Retail Upgrade then you shouldn't be hassled so long as you don't activate too often. If it's an OEM that you purchased from a computer store with a piece of hardware then you'll be hassled every time after a few activations. If it's a side of case key from a big name vendor like Dell, Gateway, or HP then you may well get hassled the first time and every time.
If you have a Retail version and you aren't installing too often and you get hassled then your key might be stolen. I wouldn't depend on the rep's recommendation. It sounds like they are making that up and not reading from something important on their screen.
What kind of key it is helps to determine how it might be compromised. I can go into any computer store and read the key off the bottom of any computer. That should give you an idea of why that type of key hassles you every time.
>can they recognize you through your IP?
That changes from time to time. They might collect the IP but it won't give them any useful information.
>or your mac? ive heard of mac spoofers. is that all it takes?
>it cant be as simple as installing a router and running a mac spoofer, can it? thats not fair to the rest of us.
Your MAC stops at your router which is either your cheapo router at home or the router at your ISP. Your router's MAC stops at the ISP router.
>how do other people around the world using my serial key avoid detection?
They call in like you do with a big sob story. Microsoft is pretty lenient giving out activations over the phone. The hassle must be working.
>if they find someones IP, cant they contact their internet provider, like i heard they do with tracking child porn weirdos?
I don't think your key is worth that much trouble.
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If you want to store files >4GB you must use NTFS.
If you want to set file security you must use NTFS.
If you want to have a disk that can read and write with any OS, you must use FAT32.
If you want the ability to boot from a DOS boot disk without addon software you must use FAT32.
Other than that it doesn't really matter which you use. I've used FAT32 and NTFS for drives up to 300GB and there just isn't enough performance difference to worry about. I prefer FAT32 unless I need to store large files. File security works against me and I do too many things that require a DOS prompt. One of those boot disks doesn't cut it.
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Build your own Dell disk and it will nLite perfectly.
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The WGA disc I saw was XP Pro Retail. Retail editions are transferable, OEM editions are not.
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Upgrading these Vista only systems to XP is a lot easier when you install from a CD you make with the Driverpacks in it.
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I've run the magic jellybean kf151.exe and something called xppid.exe and have entered another product key, and both of those come back and say the new key wasn't accepted.
It uses the VBScript from Microsoft that only knows how to change VLK -> VLK. KeyUpdateTool can change VLK -> Pro Retail and possibly more.
If I somehow get the clone to validate itself with the 2'nd key, will it have any memory of the first (original) key?Will MS somehow end up knowing that a system that previously had key#1 was modified to use key #2?
The most obvious place the old key will be found is in keys found in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA.
All the tools I found on the Internet did not work when I tried to change the CDKey from a blacklisted corp key to a Dell OEM CDKey(we do not have the original windows cd, and we can't find any Dell CD, probably lost or not given, but the oem cdkey is on the bottom of the laptop)
If you have a Dell you don't want to use the key on the bottom.
They are exactly the same and have the same part numbers and everything, but their crypto is different so you can't interchange the numbers. So we have to write the date on the new CD with a sharpie so we don't throw it out!That sounds like XP Pro SP2c.
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HP, Dell, and all other Royalty OEMs use the same technique. To preactivate the OEMBIOS files must match your motherboard and the key must have a PID with the digits 0011903 in the middle. If the OEMBIOS files don't match or the key isn't an SLP key you will be asked to activate.
what i tried to do, is to make an OEM media with my licence, since i'm not really feel that secured with that my backup is over my HD's..but i tried to install the OEM OS with both keys, both required me to activate..
Here's how you make the CD that will preactivate.
Building a Pre-activated CD from an existing installation
It's not a volume licenseIt is a volume license but it is different than the kind given to large corporations commonly known as VLK or Corporate Edition. Because the VLK moniker is already well known and the volume license that the Royalty OEM's use can only be used for System Lock Preinstall, I always called it a SLP key to prevent confusion.
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My problem is that there is often more than one set of OEMBOIS for each manufacturer at oembios.net.
1) Is there a way to try a different OEMBIOS without reinstalling Windows XP?
2) If not is there an easy way to see if an alternative OEMBIOS will work so I don't waste time trying another wrong OEMBIOS set?
This allows you to identify all of the OEMBIOS that will be accepted by the machine. It runs from any DOS disk.
3) I tend to use the same SLP key for each version of windows. Do you think this might cause problems down the road. Think Microsoft will someday decide that I am using an HP XP Home SLP key for a Dell XP Home OS and decide to label the system as pirated?I try to keep the keys matched with the manufacturers to minimize the possibility that Microsoft will want to detect this condition.
Any reason why a custom MCE 2005 disc make from a MSDN download wouldn't work with SLP?A custom MCE disk will be installed with a Retail or OEM key. The same OEMBIOS files work for all Windows versions and you can have the OEMBIOS files placed correctly but if the key isn't an MCE SLP key it won't preactivate.
In fact you can add the 2nd CD from the 'Tablet Edition' tooI thought MCE disk 2 contained all of TabletPC disk 2.
1. I am re-image old XP Pro a after changing the Productkey in sysprep.inf and copying OEMBIOS.DAT,.SIG, & .BIN to system32 folder and .DAT to sytem32/catroot/{xxx} folder. Will I also need to copy .CAT to dllcache or delete it from there(worried about SFC.exe)? Otherwise seems to work fine.Oops, that's the CAT that goes into catroot{xxx}. So far as I can tell SFC does not protect CAT files so the CAT file has no purpose in dllcache. It doesn't make sense to protect CAT files since they are self protecting. To prevent SFC problems you'll need to delete the SYSTEM32\CATROOT2 folder which will be rebuilt the next time the trust of any file is checked. This is easy if you are booting from NTFSDOS or BartPE.
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http://www.msfn.org/board/Building-Pre-act...ion-t63258.html
You can put your bad drive in another system and attach the registry. REGEDIT, click on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, File Load Hive, and browse your old drive to find \WINDOWS\system32\config\SOFTWARE which probably won't be on the C drive, then pick a random name like zzz. Then you modify the scripts to read the OEMBIOS files off the other drive letter and read the key from the zzz subkey.
You can also copy and compress the OEMBIOS files yourself, and use this tool to decode the DigitalProductID remembering that the key you want is in the zzz subkey.
http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/window...t-key-recovery/
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Why bother? It's long been done.
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There are the drivers and the integrator tool.
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so how do i go about find the pid?
Right click on my computer, hit properties or just press Window-Break. Standard keyboards have a combined Pause/Break key. Some laptop keyboards require the Fn key to activate the Break function which makes it Window-Fn-Break.
Secondly, does every royalty OEM discs ship with a different royalty key? or a certain batch have the same royalty key?Finally, just to confirm, royalty cd keys are still product specific right ( Home/Pro/ WMC etc..) ?
Microsoft generates up to 4 keys for each Royalty OEM: Home, Pro, TabletPC, and MCE keys. Every machine with a particular Windows type from that company gets the same key. Only one key is used for every Dell XP Home system. Acer uses one key for all their XP Home machines and it's different from Dell's key.
Compaq and HP merged after purchasing individual sets so there are two sets of keys that cover their product line. Gateway and eMachines also have two sets. Since OEMBIOS files and keys are not matched it doesn't matter which set they use.
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Is there no one who has a simple exe/zip that can be slipstreamed
Three problems!
1) We can't distribute keys no matter how common they might seem. This means any program requires some DIY.
2) There isn't a 1:1 correlation between OEMBIOS files and keys. Few companies got all 4 key types. Some companies were given their own OEMBIOS files but were sold keys already being used by other companies. Anyone wanting to write a program that covers all models will never obtain all the keys because they can't be publicly traded.
3) Some machines detect more than one OEMBIOS set. Which one should be used?
If you're playing fast and loose #2 and #3 can be solved by taking anything that works. #1 remains unsolvable.
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That has never worked for me but I only tried it after Service Pack 2. Other reports indicate that it doesn't work after service pack 2 either. You have three options.
If you have a brand name PC you can build a disk for it
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63258
You can embed a legit Volume License Key, AKA Corporate Edition into a disk.
You can install and activate a system then Ghost it.
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http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=63258
These are the instructions you should be following and the process works very well. Any kind of error you get is something you or your hardware did wrong.
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It was 49.7 days. The actual number is (2^32)/24/60/60/1000.
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My approach would be to download Pelles-C and create a Win32 console project that sets the errorlevel based on the installed OS.
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PAGEDFRG from SysInternals will get you the swapfile in one piece. PAGEDFRG always places any file it moves half way through the drive.
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There isn't a problem with your swap file though that's the error you might see. When you plugged the drive in Windows recorded the drive letter and it's trying to switch over to that drive letter during boot.
Before you do the copy you need to go into the registry and delete all the \?? and \DosDevices values. If you don't want to redo the copy, insert the other drive, use RegEdit Load Hive to attach SYSTEM, and hunt through for that key and delete the values, then Unload the hive.
If your boot drive isn't C: then none of this will work for you.
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I ran OEMSCAN but it reports it as a TOSHIBA for some reason. Needless to say the Toshiba oembios files didn't work either.
What does this tool report?
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Is it possible that the 2B9D18CF BIOS set has got some string like 'Pheonix'
There is no string in that set or Corporate Edition VLK or someone would have found and published them. They are just placeholders to make the WPA check simpler. Even if leaving it out of your install activates your system may be tagged at some later time as non Genuine. The extra 13MB isn't worth it.
Does this mean I can use a MSDN MCE2005 (which is like retail Pro) and put in my OEMBIOS files into it plus modify setupp.ini to make it take in OEM keys. Will this work Bezalel?That works good though I've always started with Retail or OEM. I've never tried the MSDN to see what is different. Hopefully you have an MCE OEM SLP key, preferably Dell's.
Hi, Does anyone have the OEMBIOS files for an IPEX? The COA shows 'Windows XP Professional - IPEX Computers' so I am assuming this should be a royalty OEM??? The HDD has crashed. Regards NormanIt depends on how big the company is. I have a system with a Wintergreen COA but the CD had only the standard non SLP OEMBIOS. Maybe the small companies get their name on the COA but don't have an OEMBIOS set or key made. They just issue OEM COA keys and activate them as necessary and buy the SLP set later when they get big enough. It might also be that Wintergreen supplies the SLP OEMBIOS files on the system but not the restore disk.
The list at OEMBIOS.NET is all that is available so far. I notice from the website that there are IPEX branches which tells me that it's a retail store. Any chance you could get friendly with a tech there and get one of the IPEX install CD's, or possibly have at a running machine where you could grab the files? If the store is popular enough then someone else in your area should have one.
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Have you plugged a USB CDROM in to see if the BIOS is smart enough to boot from it?
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Installing XP Pro w/ Dell license using Friends XP Pro copy?
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The key on the case will only be accepted by an XP Pro OEM CD that you would obtain from any small computer seller, the kind that sells with one CD key. You don't need the key, only the disk. Retail and VLK will not accept the key.
Dell supplies their Windows Install CD to most of their business customers who promptly file it or throw it away. That's the install that matches your license and it preactivates too.
Windows install CDs that preactivate can be constructed for many computer brands.