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07-29-2003, 07:17 AM
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Windows XP Hardware Changes
Out of interest...does anyone know about saving a file from your System32 folder, a .pbl file i think that is the activation info file for windows so that when a major hardware change has taken place you can simply re-instate the file and you dont have to go throught the stupididty of Microsoft Activation again.
Can you explain this to me? Thanks... Tom H-B |
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07-29-2003, 07:26 AM
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It is the wpa.dbl file in C/Windows/System32. After you activate windows you save it somewhere. When you reinstall XP then you copy the saved file into C/Windows/System32
I've tried this several times with no sucess. |
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07-29-2003, 09:11 AM
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to get it to work i think you have to run regserver or regserver32 on th file when you copy it back not shore witch it was somthing i read in a computer mag but it only works if you have not changed any hardwair
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07-29-2003, 05:27 PM
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dude, I've activated my copy of XP about 6 times, and I can honestly say the new phone system is pretty painless and automated.
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