XP Corporate Problems

[andrewb]

Hi. I have read the guide on this web site concerning the setupp.ini file on the Windows XP CD-ROM. I wanted to turn my CD that accepts volume license keys (and acts like a volume license CD) into a copy accepting retail keys and acting like a retail CD. Yes, that\'s right. I want a CD that will prompt me to activate. :-) This seems easy enough for someone with a burner and enough disk space (which I have). So, I edit the setupp.ini as instructed in the guide, and the Product Key dialog does not accept the Professional key that I have, even though it asks from the Product Key off of the \"sticker on the Windows folder\" like a retail CD would. I know what you\'re thinking (the key is wrong), and I thought the same thing. On a hunch, I punched a corporate key into the boxes and it worked. Something else is still telling this CD that it is a volume license disc. I have tried everything, using the original setupp.ini and only changing the last 3 digits, copying the entire file (save the first line) out of the guide, and changing all five digits in the original. Does anyone have any idea as to what this might be? Any ideas or suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Josetann]

That was not meant to be a how-to of any sort.  It was just some information that I had found pretty interesting and put it on the site, in case it helped someone else figure out some more info behind how all this works.

While I know using the technique by changing the last three numbers to 270 gives the desired effect in Win2k (it\'s how you can make your copy not ask for a CD-key), I believe MS wised up to this for XP and made it a bit more difficult now.

[Glock22]

Ther is a file in I386 called PIDGEN.dll, however, there is also more to WPA than this file also. If I can find a better file compare utility than the one I have now, I\'ll be checking out my VL CD and my OEM CD for differences in file structure.