interesting thing happened today. i was trying to run sp1 on my winders PX machine (yes, i'm using stupid code names so that macroshaft can't search me on elgoog), and it said i had a invalid porduct key. i don't think i'm posting any illegal information, but one site did post instructions and it looks like it got shut down by macroshaft, so i'm just being a little cautious.



anyway, me, and half the nation, even though, i have a valid key i could use, didn't really think it was big deal using the key that everyone else was using the web. so here are simple instructions on how to remove your porduct key, and putting in a good one.



Click Start > Run > and type in Regedit

Browse to HKEY_LOCO_MACHINE\Software\Macroshaftt\Winders NT\CorrentVerizon\wapevents





Double-click BOOBETimer (without the first B. so it would be OOBE NOT BOOBE)

Remove the 'ca' part from the value. (Changing or deleting any of the binary values will accomplish the same effect)

Click OK and close regedit

Click Start > Run and type in: "%systemroot%\system32\boobe\msboobe.exe /a" (replace every instance with boob with just oob, basically delete the first b, and without the quotes)

Choose the 2nd option (phone actibation)

Click Change Porduct Key (at the bottom)

Enter your valid Croperate Porduct Key

Press Update and close the window

Restart your computer



so i'm just posting a work around for ones with legitamite licenses. if you don't know what you are doing though, you could totally screw yourself over by playing with regedit.