How to Activate Windows XP without Product Key
Welcome back to Gupshupblog.com, Here is a simple trick to activate windows without any product key :).
When you have installed windows xp and try to activate you get messages like “your product key is not genuine or the number of activation has been exceeded” and then it tells you to call MIcrosoft to get the key, Instead of Going to this trouble, or instead of spending Hundred of dollars, to get a new genuine product, let us solve this problem by following way:
STEPS:-
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Click on Start
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Find and Click “Run”
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Type regedit
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Click the plus next to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE”
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Click the plus next to “SOFTWARE”
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Click the plus next to “Microsoft”
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Click the plus next to “Windows NT”
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Click the plus next to “CurrentVersion”
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Click “WPAEvents”
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On the right panel, find “OOBETimer” then double click it.
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Now, Delete all the Values by highlighting it, then delete it
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Then type in this value without the quotation mark “FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD”
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Then after that click OK,
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Then on the left panel right click WPAEvents, then click on permissions
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Then click System or SYSTEM, then Deny Full Control, then Click OK.
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Then Exit Registry Editor by Click the X or the red X on the Upper Right of the Title Bar or press ALT and F4 at the same time.
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To Very that it works, go to start, then “activate windows”, or go to start, then all programs, then “activate windows”
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If it says that Windows has been activated.
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Your information works wonderfully, UNTIL…30 days pass and xp deactivates. What am I doing incorrectly? I’d like to activate my program permanently. I’ve tried to activate through Microsoft, and get no where. As for keys: there’s product keys, activation keys, cd keys, and other names alluding to keys. I just want to activate my xp.
Thx.
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this is a 29day fix, as the above comments are correct, it will get you in a loop where it will ask you for activation, then tell you you are activated, once the month is up, you will be ‘locked’ out of your system. please refrain from posting “this works great” until you have used this process and had success after 30days, if you have please post exactly what you did, I would love to know.
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Sunil Jain Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 10:04 am
Hey everybody i will solve this prob very soon as i am in converstaion with an Testing software engineer
Thanks :)
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wow….that’s great. good work and thank you….
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Sunil Jain Reply:
May 13th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@sempak
my pleasure :)
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Hey, I need a fix on what to do after the 30 day period. When I start up, I now get a message saying I have 6 days left to activate. I click ok, and it says it’s activated, and then I’m at my desktop as usual.
I’m concerned as to what I should do at this point. Any help?
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Before I found this, I was in trouble.!!!!!!
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thank you so much
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Sunil Jain Reply:
May 17th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
@Steveoman
Your welcome :)
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Can anyone confirm this works after the 30 day period? Thanks so much for the trick!
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wow this worked perfectly thks. I just installed windows xp pro. and i have internet connection through wifi but the “activate windows” thing said i wasent connected but i was, anyways i guess all im trying to say is windows has its problems but this sure fixed one of them:)
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this is great. but after i read all the comment up there im scare that i wont be able to use my computer after 30 day period ? its going to be happen ? or im just worry to much ?………….
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WOW THATS GREATTTTTTTT
i’ve followed all the steps
then changed the name of winlogon.exe on my original windows into winlogon1.exe
then i copy paste winlogon.exe from other user…….. it works….
many thx
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Hi guys um great guide and all but i dont understand how to replace my WINLOGON.EXE with anither users can u guys help, i get the reminder of 2 days of activaion and then whne i clik activate it syas its alreayd activated plz help!
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WINRAR
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i follow all the steps & i thought everythings ok but later i receive in 7 days i need to activate windows again & i didnt see also windows activate in programs can anybody help me & i appreciate it thnks!
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it’s work………
thanks………….
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thanks Sunil Jain!!!! Works perfectly!
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I have done all the steps but cannot find “activate windows”. please can someone help
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After 30 days of working, i am now locked out of my computer. If i login it logs me straight out.
Any one know how to fix this?
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I couldn’t find the WPAEvents… after I changed the values for OOBETimer…. would anyone help me…thanks.. a lot
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Same here with the logon loop :/ Any new ideas?
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awesome help, was so easy a fix for a pain in the ass that’s been bugging me! Thanx Again!
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Please help me fix this problem my computer keeps going in a loop please help.
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Honest I have spent hours trying to fix this
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I think Microsoft has clock on to this crack hack whatever you want to call it, my system is activated but wont log me on. Followed the procedure above and without any joy.
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I’m stuck in the loop. Is it too late to do the winlogon.exe trick? And does it really work?
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I’m looking for a fix for the loop as well.
Just to confirm:
Replacing winlogon.exe DOES NOT WORK anymore.
Neither does replacing userinit.exe or logonui.exe.
I’m going to keep working on this one, open to any suggestions!
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Umm… this modification only removes the reminder. If you want to get past the activation screen, then press WindowsKey+u to open narrator. Then go to the “Microsoft Help Site” for Internet Access. As if internet wasn’t enough, you can go to Narrator’s help page whatever its called and click on its icon at the top left. A menu should come up. Now click “Jump to URL…” and on the bottom text box type “c:\” then go find your explorer.exe file. On Windows Xp, it will continue to shut itself down but it works on Vista. Just dont close the activation window no matter how annoying it is. . NOTE: I AM NOT ENCOURAGING PIRACY NOR DO I ENGAGE IN ACTS OF PIRACY. I AM SIMPLY INFORMING YOU OF A WAY OF GETTING AROUND THE EXPIRATION PROCESS.
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i love u, thank u…
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it was simply awesome
IT FEELS GREAT TO FIND SOMETHING GENUINE AMIDST OF ALL CRAP….
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Thank you!
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does this really work cuz i already did it
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The comment above is the only thing that worked for me. “Umm… this modification only removes the reminder. If you want to get past the activation screen, then press WindowsKey+u to open narrator. Then go to the “Microsoft Help Site” for Internet Access. As if internet wasn’t enough, you can go to Narrator’s help page whatever its called and click on its icon at the top left. A menu should come up. Now click “Jump to URL…” and on the bottom text box type “c:\” then go find your explorer.exe file. On Windows Xp, it will continue to shut itself down but it works on Vista. Just dont close the activation window no matter how annoying it is. . NOTE: I AM NOT ENCOURAGING PIRACY NOR DO I ENGAGE IN ACTS OF PIRACY. I AM SIMPLY INFORMING YOU OF A WAY OF GETTING AROUND THE EXPIRATION PROCESS.”
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I’ve done what bigbob has said to do…
Now what? My explorer wont stay up….I can run a browser but I need the rest of my functionality of xp!!!
Please help!
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This works GREAT MAN!!!!!
THANKS A LOT.
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your a lifesaver!! many good vibes being sent your way!! thanks a bunch!!
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ur the man for this truley thank god haha
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this procedure rocks me on..tnx bro to your help.hope to learn a lot from…you can reach me thu this..ym: arkidennis email: arkidennis@yahoo.com.ph..
tnx bro..
rock on!!!..
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Sunil Jain Reply:
July 19th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
@arkidennis
Thanks for commenting :)
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you r master mind sir, i m fan of u
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hi..i appriciate help on this,but my computer still shows that the software counterfieting icon is still there after doing everything you said,for your info , i missed a step on clicking activate windows on my start menu because when i click it..nothing pops out nor happen.
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don worry edwin , we are still working on it and coming up with new method to activate it :)
Thanks for commenting :)
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my xp windows ask me to activate it but when i do using product key ID it doesn’t work, rang up support without any help. this is a RM laptop given to my niece by the school and the school say there a long waiting list of problem laptop, so no help there. cd supplied was thrown away accidently by my mother.
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AMAZING!! WORKS PERFECTLY MANY THANKS!
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-facepalm-
If I would’ve know this just dissabled the reminder I wouldn’t of even done any of this, I’d rather have that thing counting down the days and not get all suprised when I woke up and it said I have 7 days remaining…
Please, any information on how to activate it permanently, I type in the right product key from the sticker on the side of the CPU and says it’s invalid… what do I do? What can be done?
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ok so i started to do this and i got as far as “denying full control” when i read all these messages about the computer going into a loop so i shat myself and started to work backwards to undo what i had done (luckily i had wrote down exactly what it said in the “OOBETimer”). Then when i went to “activate windows” to make sure it said “Windows is already activated” even though everything is exactly the same as before? Please tell me the loop thing isnt true or that it only happens to a small amount of ppl who do this cause my da is gonna be ragin. :(
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Thank you very much. It works greetly. I were simply helpless
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Very nice, but i am using windows XP Pro RETAIL. THIS DOES *NOT* WORK. It just makes no difference at all, i’m still locked out.
P.S. i can’t read the characters at the bottom of your website.
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I would also just like to add that this “workaround” for me does cause the vicious circle behaviour where it asks for a product key and then when you click to add one it says that it’s already added. The most serious problem with this work around is that when you get to this stage you are also locked out of windows safe mode too, which means you have no way *whatsoever* of getting in to windows xp.
Which leaves you in a bit of pickle. The workaround appears to work because all it does is prevent you from being bombarded with popups about how illegal your windows installation is. When the 30 days are expired that’s when the trouble starts with this workaround.
We need a new workaround which works after the 30 days expire, because in the first 30 days, a workaround isn’t necessary because it lets you in anyway.
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OMG I LOVE YOU o_o
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http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/3468960/Windows_XP_Activation_Crack
Worked for me – can’t be any worse than being locked out entirely!
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thank you so much this tutorial is really helpful… i activate my OS without costing so much..
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