Re: Make Windows XP look like Windows 2000 to SMS 2.0

From: Mike Brannigan [MSFT] (mikebran_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 10:26:17 -0000

"jmckenzie@fleetcc.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Is there a way that a user can modify their PC so that
> when SMS 2.0 is looking for all of the systems running
> Windows XP, that the system would be identified as
> running Windows 2000 Pro? We think that this is probably
> a registry hack of some sort. Let me know if anyone has
> any ideas. Thanks in advance.

Not really - but why do you need to do this?
Please tell us what you are trying to achieve as there may be a better way
of doing it that does not involve trying to fake anything. 

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"jmckenzie@fleetcc.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:061a01c39f7d$7358e580$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Is there a way that a user can modify their PC so that
> when SMS 2.0 is looking for all of the systems running
> Windows XP, that the system would be identified as
> running Windows 2000 Pro? We think that this is probably
> a registry hack of some sort. Let me know if anyone has
> any ideas. Thanks in advance.
>
> Joel