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re: Windows 2000 Product key changer ??
Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 5:19 am
Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Sdruid
(76 messages posted)
SUCCESS !!!!
I found a product key changer, changed the key, did a repair reinstall of windows
2000 and everything came back without losing any settings.
Windows 2000, just like XP has 2 type of repairs - the standard system files repair,
and then an actual complete windows reinstall repair.
Turned out that the active desktop was corrupt and keeping the desktop from coming
up.
There were a few corrupted programs which I reinstalled, but a lot better than having
to reinstall everything from scratch.
The lesson here is always keep your product key handy and make sure it is valid
because it could be a life saver.
thanks.....
On Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 12:29 am, Sdruid wrote:
> Anybody know where I can get a real Win2k product key changer ?
> I see these ripoff postings all over the net and none of them have worked yet.
>
> I found a final solution to my problem in a different post where the Windows 2000
>desktop will not load but only shows the background and wallpaper.
>
> The solution is to perform an actually system repair/reload using the original
>or currently installed product key which should reload all windows system files
>and leave you with a clean install. The product key in the computer I'm using
comes
>up as "INVALID" which means I can't fix my Win2k installation without wiping out
>what is there which is what a different product key other than they one originally
>installed will do.
>
> I tried one product key changer which seems to works but wants a RPC server to
>be running and I can't get past that with my crippled Win2k installation that I'm
>trying to fix.
>
> Is there any place in the registry where I can go to change the product key like
>in the old versions of windows ?
>
> I'm am this close to fixing the "desktop not loading problem" but have seem to
run
>into this brickwall....
>
> any help or ideas would be appreciated....
>
>thanks..
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