Thank you to everyone who put up the winlogon.exe crack!! It had taken 40 hours to download win xp home iso from a over a dialup connection (owe my cable modem provider $250), and when i saw the \"Activate in 30 days\" marker come up my heart sank. tried the regedit, didnt work, from what i hear that only works for the betas. i formatted the drive, did a fresh install, booted onto a win ME boot disk after completion of the installation but before first boot, overwrote the winlogon.exe files in C:windowssystem32 & C:windowssystem32dllcache, booted up.. no activation thing popped up. set the bios date 6 months down the road, still works great!! thank you!!