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Originally posted by Ansette
see.. i expected that response.. but then microsoft do have it on their own page..
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874/
Yeah I found that too but that doesn't mean that 99% of people wanting to change keys do it for legit reasons...
(it's like ripping a CD, although it is possible and well documented, it doesn't mean that most people do it because they want to make a backup for their own)
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Originally posted by Ansette
Hence, I'm merely asking why I can't change the key, as it worked on mine that has at been varying times SP2 and without any service pack at all (which is the current state of her laptop..)
follow the instructions you'll find. Or maybe oobe is even buggered, reinstall it (might mean reinstalling Windows if you don't know how to manually extract a file from the cabinets).