XP Activation Key

[mandy]

Hi,
Can anyone help me?
My PC has died on me, I've installed a new hard drive and want to reinstall XP, got disk but I've lost the activation key.
Does anyone know where I can get it from.
Many thanks:stupid:

[super jumbe]

Usually activation key are glued on the cover or you can go back to the place you bought your pc they may have your activation key in file, alternatively if all else fail you will have to ask some one politely for a file called WGA Killer or you can use Google for help.

:cheer:

[cunny]

If the pc/laptop was bought from a shop like pc world, they instal key is usually on the bottom of laptop side of pc

[happy_highlander]

If the pc/laptop was bought from a shop like pc world, they instal key is usually on the bottom of laptop side of pc
Thats all fine and well but there is always some twating employee who sticks the sticker on side at the front and another twating customer that bought it and didn't write the key down then didn't notice the toddler picking the sticker off and only leaving the last four digits until a clean install was required. dohhhhhhhhhhh

[konatist]

did you manage to sort out that xp key

[lexxspam]

can get the key off the xp cd
How-To: Find Windows XP Product Key from the Windows XP CD:
1) Insert Windows XP cd into a working computer.
2) Exit the Autorun introduction.
3) Open My Computer
4) Right Click on the Windows XP cd-rom drive and select explore.
5) Open the USWXP32P_ZX folder. (It may be as a hidden folder. If you cannot locate the folder, you may also search for unattend.txt and mark "Search Hidden Files")
6) Open the sysprep folder.
7) Open unattend.txt
Your CD's product key is contained within the unattend.txt file.

[keto]

as the man sys - thats the way to do it

[BlackHatCracker]

Here is a program that should activate it for you if nothing else works.
Free File Hosting Made Simple - MediaFire (http://www.mediafire.com/?xspcaugptry)
Let me know if you need more help on this.

[R_J]

on my install disc, UNATTEND.TXT is in the i386 directory and is not hidden, productkey is at the end of the file
That key may not work as I believe it is only an example (where you would put your own key)
Both discs I looked at the keys are not the same as I used to do the install. also both keys are all over the internet

[jrdztech]

Hi,
Can anyone help me?
My PC has died on me, I've installed a new hard drive and want to reinstall XP, got disk but I've lost the activation key.
Does anyone know where I can get it from.
Many thanks:stupid:


Hello friend, What version do You have?