Re: Format of Product Key Disiplayed after New Retail XP SP2 Install
From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (cnfrisch_at_nospamgmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 08:02:45 -0600
The "76487-XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX" number is the
Product ID number generated after installing Windows XP.
It is not the Product Key number.
See the following:
Retrieve your XP Product Key [CD Key]
http://michaelstevenstech.com/ViewKeyXP.htm
-- Carey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows XP - Shell/User Be Smart! Protect Your PC! http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Uncle John" wrote: | Hi Carey | After quite a long time having cold feet I did "repair" install the new | Windows XP Pro SP2 from the new retail CD given me by my family at | Christmas. I cleaned up the existing system as far as possible, created an | image back up on my backup HDD and then did the "R" install from the CD. It | went smoothly and completed in 24 minutes and only complained that the | latest Creative Audigy Sound card were not certified [though Creative Europe | said they were WDM approved]. Also still strange bug at very end that the | tape controller could not be installed: I have a SCSI Dat 4 tape drive but | no controller. | After the installation was completed, activated and registered I checked the | computer info and saw instead of the alpha-numeric CD Key the following | information | | Registered to John Butler | Copse Hill Ltd | 76487-XXX-XXXXXXX-XXXXX | | which is correct but usually one sees the alpha numeric CD Key | | I checked that the CD key was also correct and wonder why the info is now | presented as above? | | Uncle John
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