Is this true?
Every time you reinstall Windows XP, you have to phone home to
Microsoft to reactivate the OS. Avoid this annoyance by copying the
existing hardware signature file that Windows creates from your
computer's configuration and pasting it back into the freshly
installed version of Windows XP.
Open the C:\Windows\System32 folder in Explorer and copy the files
"wpa.dbl" and "wpa.bak" to a floppy disk, CD, or other removable
medium. At the end of the XP reinstallation, choose not to reactivate
Windows. When the reinstallation finishes, reboot your PC in Safe Mode
by pressing F8 before Windows launches. Once Windows has opened in
Safe Mode, copy the two files over the new versions in the
C:\Windows\System32 folder.
--
Pete Holsberg
Columbus, NJ
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There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be
to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
--John Adams, Journal, 1772
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