With these instructions you can change your Windows XP installation media to allow OEM, Retail, or Volume License product keys. Unlocking WinXP’s setupp. Building Telephony Systems With Opensips Pdf Files. ini WinXP’s setupp.ini controls how the CD acts.

IE is it an OEM version or retail? First, find your setupp.ini file in the i386 directory on your WinXP CD. Open it up, it’ll look something like this: ExtraData=736F696F697911AE7E05 Pid=55034000 The Pid value is what we’re interested in. What’s there now looks like a standard default.

There are special numbers that determine if it’s a retail, oem, or volume license edition. First, we break down that number into two parts. The first five digits determines how the CD will behave, ie is it a retail cd that lets you clean install or upgrade, or an oem cd that only lets you perform a clean install? The last three digits determines what CD key it will accept. You are able to mix and match these values. For example you could make a WinXP cd that acted like a retail cd, yet accepted OEM keys.

Now, for the actual values. Remember the first and last values are interchangable, but usually you’d keep them as a pair: Retail = 51882335 Volume License = 51883 270 OEM = 82503 OEM So if you wanted a retail CD that took retail keys, the last line of your setupp.ini file would read: Pid=51882335 And if you wanted a retail CD that took OEM keys, you’d use: Pid=51882OEM Note that this does NOT get rid of WinXP’s activation. Changing the Pid to a Volume License will not bypass activation. You must have a volume license (corporate) key to do so. A Windows product ID [currently, as of the XP Home/Pro/Server 2003 era] has the following format: xxxxx-yyy-zzzzzzz-zzzzz xxxxx-yyy-zzzzzzz-zzzzz The ‘xxxxx’ component The xxxxx section, which I will now call the “OS type”, from what I understand, determines the flavor of Windows version. Here is my current list of OS type IDs: 55274: XP Professional (Corporate/Academic) 55285: XP Professional* 55276: XP Home (?)** 55277: XP Home 51873: 2000 Professional 76487: Media Center Edition 2005 (or XP Professional Royalty OEM***) 76477: XP Home (Royalty OEM***) The current OS ID can be gotten by various methods: * If the destination computer’s operating system works well enough [even in safe mode], you can get it by right-clicking My Computer, clicking Properties, and reading the long ID number that appears under ‘Registered to’.

Hp windows xp professional sp3 oem iso. Questi download non.windows xp pro sp3 oem iso sony final cut pro torrent free windows 8 pro activator windows seven. Note that this does NOT get rid of WinXP's activation. Changing the Pid to a Volume License will not bypass activation. You must have a volume license (corporate) key to do so. A Windows product ID [currently, as of the XP Home/Pro/Server 2003 era] has the following format: xxxxx-yyy-zzzzzzz-zzzzz.

* You can use the command reg query “hklmsoftwaremicrosoftwindows ntcurrentversion” /v ProductID if you’re at a command prompt (CMD.EXE). * If the destination computer does not work very well, you can get it by attaching the hard drive to a working machine, and mount the hive by highlighting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE in regedit, and choosing File; Load Hive. Then you can surf your way to the machine’s system32configSOFTWARE hive.

It will ask you what key to mount; you then give it any name you like, and it will appear under your own HKLM. You then click your way to SoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersion (then you will see ProductID on the right). Don’t forget to highlight the top key of the mounted hive, and go to File; Unload Hive when you’re done! * Finally, you can actually find the ID you need [sometimes] if you check for the presence of either C:i386setupp.ini or%systemroot%i386setupp.ini. Below is a list of OEM CD keys. Use the keys to create a Dell, Compaq, IBM, restore cd that skips product registration. You will need to replace the BIOS files in the I386 and change the setupp.ini file to match the key used.

For example the Dell WIndows XP Home cd uses 55277OEM.

AFAIK, no version of Windows XP was available for download (for retail users, at least) from Microsoft. You had to buy the actual media (or a computer with the OS pre-installed) or subscribe to a Microsoft service such as MSDN in order to have access to the OS iso files. Note that OEMs are required, as a condition of their license from Microsoft, to supply the end users of their products with some means to reinstall a pre-installed operating system. Early on, OEMs satisfied this requirement by providing actual media of some sort. Then they decided to save a few pennies by eliminating the CDs and instead including a hidden 'restore partition' on the hard drive. All this is to say that you should already have some means that came with your laptop that is supposed to be able to reinstall Windows.

If your laptop originally came with restore media and you've lost or misplaced it (or if you managed to erase a hidden restore partition), Microsoft's position is that you should get in touch with the OEM who made and sold you the laptop. See That document includes a section for situations in which the original system builder is no longer in business. Given that many OEMs no longer stock replacement XP media (and that XP Pro 64 wasn't a big seller in the first place), your most likely legitimate source for replacement media would be Microsoft -- but only if you originally purchased from a now-defunct company. ----- LemP Community Moderator MS MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) 2006-2009 Microsoft Community Contributor (MCC) 2011-2012. Here's what I know on this subject (which isn't a whole lot): This is HP's document concerning ordering recovery media: Note the following: 'HP maintains an inventory of replacement recovery discs for several years after the product has been released. However, because of software licensing restrictions, HP is only able to provide recovery discs for a limited time.'