Product key

[DougL]

Recently re-partitioned and reformatted a drive for a friend, when he brought the box round containing all the cd's his WinME was missing. Checked his old invoice(2years) and it was included but seems to have gone missing.two questions:

1. can i put my WinMe on which i'm not using as i now use XP, until he finds his.
2. When he finds his CD is there a registry tweak to change the person and product Id without re-installing windows.

Doug

[RayH]

If that copy of WinME is installed on only one computer, it should be legal.

[fragman]

Yeah RayH is mostly right if you do only install it on one system it should be legal. And no, I dont believe there is any way to change product keys after install. sorry. But one more thing, Im not exactly sure why you'd even consider installing Me, its a shoddy OS that was released too early, so it had and still has a bunch of bugs. I'd use an updated version of 98se or an install of win2k or xp.

[edfair]

Can't remember having done it with ME, but previous versions accept a registry key change with no problems. Change the CDkey and the product ID changes.

[andyms18a]

just get him to give you his cd and product key when he finds it and he keeps yours

[Redo40]

andyms18a gave the easiest thing to do, but yes you can change the product key in the registry. It should be under Hkey local machine/software/microsoft/windows/highlight current version and scroll down to it.

[DougL]

Thanks for the answers guys, fragman yes i know its a crap OS but i don't think XP would run on his old machine. I'l see how it goes.