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jy88888888   04-03-2002 at 08:01:46 PM

How does Product Activation work? I want WinXP but how do you activate the product? I regularly format my hard drive and if it means waiting on the phone for hours just to get WinXP reactivated, I will definitely stick with Win98SE

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Zlash   04-03-2002 at 08:44:55 PM
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You won't have to regularly format with XP, but yes you'd probably have to do that...or go with 2k.

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Zoron   04-03-2002 at 09:10:35 PM
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Activation is easily done over the internet. ZLash is right, you won't need to regularly format your hard drive with XP... but if you do, activation is not a problem... provided you haven't changed too much hardware in your computer.

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carlbeck   04-04-2002 at 04:23:55 PM
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Windows XP Tips
Never Re-Activate After Installation
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If you have to reinstall Windows XP you normally will have to reactivate too. Well not anymore. Just copy wpa.dbl after you activated the first time. It is located in the WINDOWS\system32 folder. Now if you reinstall Windows XP just copy the file back and you're up and running again.

As long as the hardware is the same as the information in wpa.dbl you won't even get a message to activate.

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jy88888888   04-04-2002 at 08:16:28 PM
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So is this the activation hack that I've been hearing about?

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