Al salaam a'alaykum Viktor

10 Dec 03 01:04, Viktor Pilpenok wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> XP Pro doesn't need to be "hacked" to be installed on multiple
 DD>> machines (then again, the CD we're installing on hundreds of machines
 DD>> at work may be "pre-hacked")....

 VP> Microsoft an XP Pro distribution (called "Corporate" or something) 
 VP> which shipped without any kind of activation code.

 VP> I thinK you can check whether it is "hacked" by looking
for a regkey 
 VP> named WPActivate (i'm not sure about the name, but it should be 
 VP> something similar to this) under HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows. If 
 VP> the key is not present then it probably never had the activation 
 VP> module (corporate) otherwise it is probably cracked (the module is 
 VP> there but it is disabled)

Ah - I imagine I've been supplied a copy of the "corporate edition" then.

Regards,
David

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