Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Retrieve Pre-Activation Windows Xp Information OEM only

After some research on how to get each pc to use the key that they come with, without having to type them down manually after Sysprep I found this.

At John Jay College each dell come with Certificate of Authenticity attached to the PC (COA Key)

each of the key are stored in the Bios using SLP method along with Pre-Activation information.

When you use Dell CD it will never ask for Product Key when it being installed on the Dell Machine.

Here is the special key provided by microsoft to tell windows to look in the Bios for Pre-Activation and Key informations.

Windows XP Professional 32 bit

MVF4D-W774K-MC4VM-QY6XY-R38TB

Windows XP Tablet PC Edition

XT67V-GY7FW-GR6FR-WDK2C-8T97J

Windows XP Professional x64 bit

FM634-HJ3QK-6QVTY-RJY4R-XCR9J


* the keys above are provided by Microsoft publicly and it were intended for Pre-Activation purposes

Using these key and integrated them to sysprep this will be very useful when rolling out 5-100 computers.

source: Technet
I will later post my integration with Hardware Independence Image

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