The school where my dad works has merged with another school, and since my dad is in charge of IT he's now in charge of their IT as well.
When checking some computers he found one that was XP RTM, no updates, no service packs (it wasn't on the Internet so no real disaster). He updated it to SP2, installed updates, and behold, WGA kicks in and tells him it's an illegal version.
This is pretty stupid of course; the school has a volume license for XP, apparently they just didn't use it for this machine.
So my question is, can he change the product key from this illegal, non-VLK key to his legal VLK key without reinstalling? Would a repair install from the VLK media do the job? Is there an even easier way? I've seen some registry tricks for this but I'm not
sure they would work going from a non-VLK key to a VLK key.
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Sven Groot
I'm Commander Shepard and this is my favourite store on the Citadel.
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Tom Servo
W-hat?
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microsoft released a key changer for xp a while ago there are a few others on google...
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Windows-XP-Product-Key-Modifier.shtml
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