if you want to bypass the registration on your Win2000
First you want to copy your Windows 2000 setup files from your CD to your hard drive. You have to copy at least the I386 directory (I recommend copying all the files, so you can burn a complete CD later). Now go into the I386 directory you just copied onto your hard drive. Find the setupp.ini file. Right click it, select Properties, and remove the Read-only checkmark. Now open the file to edit it.
Your setupp.ini file should read something like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=646E77637A6F6D79626A1D94089595
Pid=51873XXX
Replace the 3 X\'s at the end with \"270\". It should now read something like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6166656C736263737373B2574A0581
Pid=51873270
this was taken from a post on another board, this info is not mine.
