XP SP3 keyless.. bybass serial request

[smilodon]

I heard, that with XP SP3 you can skip typing the serial.

So i integrated SP3 into OEM XP SP2 Home.

From Winnt.sif i removed the product key row.

The result is... it sais that winnt.sif is minning "something".

Then it displayed the screen where i had to type the serial key.

Doh.. i had SP3, so i didnt enter anything and the install continued.

Now how the hell to avoid this KEY ASKING stuff ???

I googled a bit and all it showed was a method for Win 2000 and people complaining that it does NOT work for XP. But all the topics were old.. i mean pre SP3.

So any ideas ?

Would be bretty cool to not keep the precious keys on the cd itself.

And a neat way, as you need no hacks to "enter" the key intended for a particular PC at the stage, were you set up the PC user's settings... those which cannot be slipstreamed.

[Kelsenellenelvian]

That is planned for the FINAL release...

[smilodon]

Alright, the final release is out now...

[PC_LOAD_LETTER]

Alright, the final release is out now...

and you are welcome to search for the result. there are about 10 threads concerning SP3 and CD keys currently