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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 12:57 pm
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Posted by Matthew D. Healy (1255 messages posted)

Go to www.licenturion.com/xp/ for the XPInfo tool, which shows which components are still the same as when XP was last activated.

Also their website has considerable technical information about the internals of the WinXP activation mechanisms.

I don't think anybody outside Microsoft knows more about WPA than these people.

On Saturday, February 5, 2005 at 10:23 am, Crash Override wrote:
>Each component is weighted differently. When the system boots, it counts the devices
>present to come up with a "score". I want to say if that "score" matches 7 out of
>10 the system continues without the need for re-activation,etc. My number could
>be off, but I think it is close. Changing a motherboard or hard drive would obviously
>count more than say changing a floppy drive or a cdrom. HTH
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Regards,
Crash Override

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Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Berner Junge: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 4:08 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (triplate: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 4:52 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Crash Override: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 10:23 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Matthew D. Healy: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 12:57 pm)

re: If we make the question instead, "How to lessen the impact of activation interference?" (Kiwi: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 1:38 pm)

re: If we make the question instead, "How to lessen the impact of activation interference?" (Crash Override: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 6:42 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (David J.: Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 10:01 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (David J.: Tue, Mar 29, 2005, 9:36 am)

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