Never Reactivate Windows XP After Installation
By Madhur Kapoor on Dec 28, 2007 in Windows
This is a guest post by Brown Baron from Brown Thoughts, where he writes about Analog ideas in a Digital World. Do check out his blog for some great content and subscribe to his feed for regular updates.
This situation should sound familiar to most of you. Your computer runs slow or gets infected with a virus you can’t get rid of, so you decide to reformat your hard drive and do a clean install of Windows XP. After installing Win XP, you notice that you need to activate Windows again. If for some reason you can’t activate your copy of Windows, don’t lose hope.
What if I told you that there’s a simple way to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after just one installation? Go to your \Windows\system32 folder and make a backup of wpa.dbl . Anytime you reinstall Windows XP, just paste back your copy of wpa.dbl and you’re good to go.
This tip will definitely save you lot of time in talking with Microsoft support.
But if you make any major hardware changes and try reinstall windows XP and activate using this method it won’t work.
Shivaranjan | Dec 28, 2007 | Reply
That’s a nice and easy trick. Thanks for sharing it here Brown
Haris | Dec 28, 2007 | Reply
Great tip buddy, didn’t know this
ram | Dec 28, 2007 | Reply
BrownBaron,
Thats a great tip, very much useful.
Nirmal | Dec 31, 2007 | Reply
Easy method
… btw, shouldnt that also be done to wpa.dll ??
Atof | Dec 31, 2007 | Reply
can u tell something abut the dll file in question and what purpose it serves?
Holly Bolly movie fan | Jan 1, 2008 | Reply
What a pile of BS !
Have any of you actualy treid this ? I got a virus that distroyed my PC, I couldn’t do a thing. Luckely, I had made backups of the 2 files, I even changed the Volume ID back to was it was after I reformatted.
Result = WinSH$t wants me to Activate Product !
These ‘genuises’ should actualy try out these so called tips before they post!
TURK | Sep 28, 2008 | Reply