PC has legit COA for Home some id*** repairman put Corp on it, how to

[ZenCoder]

I am seeing this a lot.

Before WGA a lot of lazy repair techs just did all re-installs using an XP Corp disc to save time.

Right now I know about 3 home users and one business who one legal copies of XP, but have pirated versions installed.

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1) Are there methods to covert an XP Pro Corp to a XP Home OEM so that the system is once again legitimate, without having to do a repair install? Will a repair install even work?

2) Are there easy methods to covert a XP Pro Corp to a XP Pro OEM so that the system is once again legitimate?

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3) Will a business actually get in trouble for running XP Pro Corp when they have a legal COA, disc, documentation for XP Pro Retail/OEM for that system? (The business doesn't own volume licenses, each system should be Pro OEM not Pro Corp)

The business in question believes that as long as they have sufficent licenses for every install they are covered, even if someone was lazy and installed Pro Corp instead of Pro OEM.

I really don't know how software audits work so I can't advise them one way or the other, except I told them to make sure the next time someone needs to reinstall windows, the do it properly so they don't have to worry.

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Edited October 25, 2006 by ZenCoder

[oioldman]

on MS site is a tool called KeyUpdateTool.exe that you can run on a pirate version and enter you legit key and it will validate it.

Not sure if this will work across different versions/types of xp