{"id":454,"date":"2010-08-19T05:27:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swildow.darktech.org\/wp\/?p=454"},"modified":"2010-08-19T05:27:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T10:27:42","slug":"howto-change-product-key-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/?p=454","title":{"rendered":"howto change product key xp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 id=\"tocHeadRef\"><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/328874\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/328874<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5>Deactivate Windows<\/h5>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n            loadTOCNode(4, 'moreinformation');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click <strong>Start<\/strong>, and then click <strong>Run<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Open<\/strong> box, type regedit, and then click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the navigation pane, locate and then click the following registry key:\n<div><strong> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\WindowsNT\\Current Version\\WPAEvents<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>In the topic pane, right-click <strong>OOBETimer<\/strong>, and then click <strong>Modify<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Change at least one digit of this value to deactivate Windows.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h5 id=\"tocHeadRef\">Reactivate Windows and add new product key<\/h5>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n            loadTOCNode(4, 'moreinformation');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click <strong>Start<\/strong>, and then click <strong>Run<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>In the <strong>Open<\/strong> box, type the following command, and then click <strong>OK<\/strong>.\n<div>%systemroot%\\system32\\oobe\\msoobe.exe \/a<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Yes, I want to telephone a customer service representative to activate Windows<\/strong>, and then click <strong>Next<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>Change Product key<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Type the new product key in the <strong>New key<\/strong> boxes, and then click <strong>Update<\/strong>.\n<p>If you are returned to the previous window, click <strong>Remind me later<\/strong>, and then restart the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Repeat steps 1 and 2 to verify that Windows is activated. You receive the following message:\n<div>Windows is already activated. Click OK to exit.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click <strong>OK<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Install Windows XP Service Pack 1a or a later version of Windows XP.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/328874<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wildow.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}