I have an HP laptop with a product key on it, for Windows XP Pro. I don't have any CD's with it. I do have access to an HP OEM XP CD, from my desktop. Will I be able to enter in the product key from the laptop if I used the OEM CD I have? Is there any other way to do that if it doesn't work?
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The solution says I should go to the System Properties to get the product id. Well an abstraction of that product id is 69831-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx. Then it tells me to go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMWPAKey-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, and work with the fields in there. It predicts that there might be more than one key conforming to that format, and there is. It says I should pick the key that has the same ProductID as found in the System Properties, but they both have the same id and it isn't what I found in System Properties, it's 55285-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx.I have one product id in System Properties, and another that appears in two keys in the registry.
Here's my SysInfo:
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.1
OS Version: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, Service Pack 2, 32 bit
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+, x86 Family 6 Model 10 Stepping 0
Processor Count: 1
RAM: 1023 Mb
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200 , 128 Mb
Hard Drives: C: Total - 103936 MB, Free - 25331 MB; D: Total - 13228 MB, Free - 8921 MB; G: Total - 70605 MB, Free - 11730 MB;
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd., nVidia-nForce2, 1.x,
Antivirus: AVG Anti-Virus Free, Updated: Yes, On-Demand Scanner: Enabled
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