Anything worth knowing about us is known already, so I dont know why folks worry about WPA.

;-) Also if you activate XP and afterwards (reboot first) backup two files onto a "fully formatted" floppy…

windows\system32\licdll.dll
windows\system32\wpa.dbl

Then install XP onto a new machine (legally of course, you must uninstall it from the first one) and then boot to a safe mode command prompt and copy the saved files to the new install.

When you reboot you will get a warning, something to the effect that XP must be activated, do you wish to? Select No. The system will freeze, just shut it off and wait a few seconds then turn it back on, chkdsk is going to want to run, let it. You will boot normally into XP.

When you goto activate it will identify that your original installation has changed by "X" pieces of hardware and just activate it. I've done that 4 times since 1st release (am trying to figure out the best combination of hardware and also testing WPA for the critics)

It worked like a charm the first two times, the 3rd time I had to call, (took less then 5 minutes and was no big deal) and the 4th I just did the 4th time.

P.S. before copying over the saved file do the following…

Open a run box and type CMD to open a command prompt.

Type the following…

sfc(space)/purgecache

when you hit enter this will purge all files that have been backed up into the windows\system32\dllcache folder. Keeps XP from replacing the new file with the old file if it thinks it's been corrupted.