XP Product Key???

From: Rex Winn (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:27:31 -0700

A friend of mine just bought a laptop off Ebay. It's got
an illegal copy of Windows XP on it. He doesn't want to
start over and reload it with his legal copy that he owns.
He'd like to just put in his product key so he can do
Windows Updates. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Where is the XP product key at and will changing it make
it so they can run the updates from the Microsoft site?

This is a very legal situation (except the Ebay seller).
My friend went and purchased a legal copy of XP for this
laptop. We're not trying to beat the system or do anything
weird.

Thanks,

Rex

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