[ltp] XP Key doesn't work!

[James Knott]

Dax Kelson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 14:22, Nick Bower wrote:
> 
>>>The key on the sticker at the bottom of the laptop won't work. I
>>>didn't try a retail XP CD yet with it - perhaps this would work?
>>
>>This was the subject of the original post - the key on the sticker on
>>the bottom of the laptop doesn't work with an XP retail CD.  Entirely
>>unexpected it was :(  You'd think I legally purchased a copy of XP to
>>install how I want...
> 
> 
> It is trivial to change a retail XP CD image to an OEM one (and vice
> versa) with some small changes to a text file in the i386 directory.
> 
> I've never done this, but I've heard about it. Google should have an
> answer.

Any easy way to change a "Home" edition into "Pro"?  Back in the NT 
days, there was a registry change, to convert NT workstation into a server.