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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / November 2005Moving from OEM licence to VLK without reinstall
Dear Forum Members, We have valid VLK license for XP, and at one of the remote site, a new engineer created a ghost image using OEM key and deployed it on 50 machines. Now those machine have gone into production and they have started asking for activation. so, Is there a way to stop the activation requests? Can we change the key of installation without reinstalling from OEM to VLK so that it doesn't ask for activation.? Thanking you all in Advance, - KaPes  Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Chance Favors The Prepared Mind" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You'll have to use phone activation for each computer or else perform a "Repair Install" using the VL CD and Product Key. How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm Product Activation Changes http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/partners/productactivation.mspx Volume Licensing and Product Activation http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_volume.mspx SignatureCarey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Microsoft Community Newsgroups news://msnews.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Dear Forum Members, | [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] | - | KaPes don't you think repair install will be overkill for this task... Can't I run sysprep and invoke mini-setup to change the KEY from OEM to VLK & rejoin the machine in domain again. SignatureKaPes ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Chance Favors The Prepared Mind" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > You'll have to use phone activation for each computer > or else perform a "Repair Install" using the VL CD [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > | - > | KaPes No, because the installations now have an OEM Windows XP license. The only way to change to a VL license is a repair install. SignatureCarey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Microsoft Community Newsgroups news://msnews.microsoft.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | don't you think repair install will be overkill for this task... | [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] | > | - | > | KaPes |
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