Activate Windows XP without Product Key

Activate Windows XP without Product Key

Posted by [V3N0M] on Saturday, February 14, 2009

Labels: tips and tricks, Windows

Hey, Did you just Install Windows XP on your Computer?  Well Did you? If yes, you tried to activate Windows, but It when you are trying to, it says that your product key is not genuine or the number of activation has been exceeded? It ask you to call Microsoft to get a new product key? Well my friends also gone from the same problem but i have the way to it and it really worked.

Instead of Going to this trouble, or instead of spending Hundred of dollars, to get a new genuine product, let us solve this problem by following way:

STEPS:-

• Click on Start
• Find and Click "Run"
• Type regedit
• Click the plus next to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"
• Click the plus next to "SOFTWARE"
• Click the plus next to "Microsoft"
• Click the plus next to "Windows NT"
• Click the plus next to "CurrentVersion"
• Click "WPAEvents"
• On the right panel, find "OOBETimer" then double click it.
• Now, Delete all the Values by highlighting it, then delete it
• Then type in this value without the quotation mark "FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD"
• Then after that click OK,
• Then on the left panel right click WPAEvents, then click on permissions
• Then click System or SYSTEM, then Deny Full Control, then Click OK.
• Then Exit Registry Editor by Click the X or the red X on the Upper Right of the Title Bar or press ALT and F4 at the same time.
• To Very that it works, go to start, then "activate windows", or go to start, then all programs, then "activate windows"
• If it says that Windows has been activated.

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