Encrypt Product Key

[twizt3d]

Is there a way to encrypt the Product Key in the winnt.sif file like the Admin pswrd can be?

[benners]

Try This

[Incroyable HULK]

This looks great! But the thing that sucks is that it is only valid for 60 days...

y is a value ranging from 5 to 60. This is the time in days that you want this script to be valid for.

When the time period specified has ended, the user is prompted to manually enter a product key during Setup.

Maybe it is possible to do a comparison between Before and After applying this command and find out if other files than the WINNT.SIF are modified...

[twizt3d]

this isnt exactly what i was looking for, its intersting, but i think i saw it somewhere already, i just want to hide the serial key in the winnt.sif file so if someone other than me views it, they dont have my serial number... like when the admin pass is encrypted in the sif file it shows up as asdfj;lasdhbglkajsdhgksjdhfsadhflasdjgshglsh i want to do somehting like that.... any suggestions?

[IcemanND]

Interesting, never saw that before.

@twizt3d - when was the last time you went more than 60 days before making a new installation cd? I think I might have made it that long but not by much.

And this way if I leave my cd in the machine accidentally after the install then I don't have to worry about it after 60 days, unless of course they run KeyFinder on their machine and get it that way.

[twizt3d]

keyfinder, forgot about that, and my clients shouldnt need to reinstall an os ever, thats considered tech support in my buisness, so assuming nothing goes wrong, they wont need to do a new cd.

[IcemanND]

It all depends upon who your client base consists of. Mine ranges from the no nothing user to IT professionals.

[twizt3d]

all this aside, i was trying to say it is not unusual for someone to not need a reinstalation after 60 days, so this method doesnt help me because i would have to go and change the key after 60 days, and i only have one key also....