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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. Windows XP Professprotonal SP3 free download stopped receiving updates on April 8, 2014. However Windows XP Professprotonal SP3 free download still supports most of the hardware and runs smoothly even on latest computers. Due to later release of operating systems by Microsoft especially the release of Windows 10 finally overtook Windows XP.

My aunt called me in to repair her desktop and laptop computers. You become: The Family's Private IT.) The desktop wasn't much; just many, many junk pieces of software that her daughter had put there. The laptop, had a completely corrupted partition, with a nice BSOD when trying to start Windows. I had no choice but to reinstall Windows. My aunt had two discs lying around for some obscure reason. One was a Windows Xp Home Premium OEM installation disc in a paper pouch without any key, and the other, in those large cardboard packages they sold Windows Xp with, was a Windows Xp Professional disc and a product key, just like the real ones. But not an installation disc.

'Update' written on the disc. I thought maybe the computer started out with Home Premium and then the Professional 'update' was used to upgrade it, but nope. The Professional disc, I guess, is for installing service packs or something. On whoever knows what computer.

When asked, she swears no disc came with the computers, and she had no idea where these discs might come from. Anyway, right now her computer has the Home Premium OEM I installed on it, without a key. '30 days remaining', blah blah. This computer was a Dell. She bought it at a place where they take broken computers, replace a few parts, and sell them refurbished. This means there is no Recovery partition.

There wouldn't be much room for such a thing anyway, on this 60 GB hard drive. So my only option is to find the right OEM disc and reinstall it with the key on the sticker under the computer. So I thought I was going to just download an ISO and burn it, but then I saw this. Apparently, for Windows 8, there are tons of ISOs, and only one can do depending on the code in the BIOS. This guide seemed to sort of indicate it's the same for Windows Xp, as they advise to check some numbers in the BIOS with a bootable USB key.

If there was just one OEM, why would they care? But searching, searching, searching, I just can't put my hands on a list of ISOs from which to choose. It's like there's only one ISO after all. So, before I go to her home and try to install with a disc that won't work, please tell me there really is just one ISO, and that it won't go wrong. Or tell me where I can find the list to choose from. Also, many ISOs say 'SP3'. Does a 'Windows Xp Professional' license differ from a 'Windows Xp Professional SP3' license?

If so, how do I know what Service Pack (none, 1, 2 or 3) the product key on the tag is supposed to be? You should be able to use any unbranded OEM copy of Windows XP (i.e. Not Dell, HP, Gateway, etc.) to reinstall Windows XP Professional using the product key from the sticker on the bottom of the laptop.

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Note that you need to use an OEM disc, not a Retail or VL (volume license) disc. For your purposes, there is no difference between Windows XP, and Windows XP with Service Pack 1, 2 or 3, though for security reasons you should install a copy of XP which includes Service Pack 3 before connecting the computer to the Internet. The only thing is that you may have to activate Windows by phone, as. Since XP has gone end of life, OEM product keys can be activated over the Internet again.

Good morning, I was hoping someone may be able to help me. I bought a number of HP/Compaq desktop machines off eBay, all with a genuine XP COA sticker. I would like to install a fresh copy of WindowsXP on these machines, using the genuine keys, but no setup CD I have will allow me to use these codes. All say the code is invalid during initial setup. I have tried using a SP1 cd and a SP2 cd, both genuine retail versions. The HP/Compaq machine's COA's are all dated 2004, right between when SP1 and SP2 were around. Am I unable to use a normal retail CD to install XP?

Does it need to be a special HP one? Thanks in advance for your help. Grab yourself an OEM XP CD (any service pack version). There are two versions of XP Pro - retail, and OEM - and their keys are incompatible.

Contrary to what many people believe, keys from individual computer manufacturers aren't linked to CDs supplied by them (so it.is. possible to use a Dell XP Pro OEM CD with an HP OEM key). My advice is to hunt around to find somebody who's bought a machine with XP Pro pre-installed and nab their CD. Failing that, go download it off Bittorrent (mods: note that I'm not advocating warez here, because he already has the machines that are licensed to run it). You cannot use a 'generic' OEM System Builder install CD to restore the XP installation to those machines, sorry.

The Product Code listed on the COA stickers is effectively useless for most intents and purposes, it's the sticker that makes it a legit machine, not the key on the sticker. What you need is an actual HP/Compaq XP Home SP2 installer CD for those machines. Using such a thing means you're staying legit, you're using the OEM branded machines with the actual OEM branded installer CD and you won't even be asked to input a key because that installer CD's install files are tied directly to that OEM branded hardware. There's no realistic way to get around this, sorry.

You have to use the actual HP/Compaq branded OEM installer CD to accomplish your goals. Besides, using a generic OEM copy of XP breaks the EULA in the US anyway, meaning it's illegal to do what you're attempting to do. The key on the stick is useless and won't actually get any OEM copy installed.

A truly branded OEM copy is required here, from HP/Compaq. Anyone suggesting that someone 'go download XP' from ANY SOURCE is an advocation of software piracy, period. There's no middle ground and no gray area - it just is. That's a very strange result, then.

Perhaps it's different in the USA, but in the UK any OEM key works with any OEM CD (and the same goes for retail keys). I've even installed HP machines with the factory-supplied OEM key using a Dell CD with a different service pack version, and it was fine. The same appears to be valid for Vista, although I've only tried that a couple of times. One thing - you weren't trying to install using a Pro OEM key on a Home OEM CD, were you? Or maybe using a VLK CD? Those things definitely won't work. That's a very strange result, then.

Perhaps it's different in the USA, but in the UK any OEM key works with any OEM CD (and the same goes for retail keys). I've even installed HP machines with the factory-supplied OEM key using a Dell CD with a different service pack version, and it was fine.

The same appears to be valid for Vista, although I've only tried that a couple of times. One thing - you weren't trying to install using a Pro OEM key on a Home OEM CD, were you? Or maybe using a VLK CD?

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Those things definitely won't work. Click to expand.Good evening, I am in the UK. I have no idea either. I have used generic CDs before on Dell and Tiny machines, without so much as a single problem as long as it was the correct version. You can see the code, posted above.

I have tried a Genuine XP SP1 and SP2 Retail CD's, as well as my friend's OEM SP1 and SP2. I am wondering if there is a difference between the OEM and VLK editions. After reading what bbzGhost suggested, I am not overly hopeful. If this is true, my only option is to obtain an original HP OEM CD. I just hope there is only a single version of this, and not different ones for no-SP, SP1 and SP2, and also it is only generic and not tied to a particular model. I do this all day in my job.

You can install using any copy of windows xp you will just have to call it in when it installs to activate the copy of windows. Or the other route you can go is to use an 'HP' OEM disc to install which the only way you will be able to get it is by contacting hp, giving them the serial number and model number and paying about 25-50 bucks for the recovery media and then you can use that same xp oem disc on all of them. Or take it to circuit city and they can do it for you for a fee because we have the oem discs.