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Windows XP SP2c

  • 09-11-2007 8:18pm
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    Anyone else hear about this change? Supposedly Microsoft ran out of product keys! Just thought I'd post this info in case anyone's interested or has the same problem I did...

    I got my first copy of it in work today without knowing about the change, the COA looked different. I tend to use a disc I have in work rather than open the shrinkwrap so I installed it using a regular SP2 disc, it accepted the product key but then when the setup finished it acted as if the activation grace period expired - wouldn't let me log on without activating. So one of my colleagues informed me that it was an SP2c disc which made me search for what was changed.

    What I read online reported that the only change made was to the product key validation but there is one... the installation no longer requires a product key ala Vista and XP x64.


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  • #2
    ethernet
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    I heard SP2c was to solve the issues of product keys also. I recall seeing an XP CD from Dell a good while back branded XP Home SP1a.

    Regarding not having to enter a product key during installation of XP, that won't be until SP3 to my knowledge.


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    ethernet wrote: »
    I heard SP2c was to solve the issues of product keys also. I recall seeing an XP CD from Dell a good while back branded XP Home SP1a.

    Regarding not having to enter a product key during installation of XP, that won't be until SP3 to my knowledge.
    I tried the SP2c CD and it certainly does allow installation without a product key. I was surprised.

    But yep, I remember SP1a, the change in that case was the removal of the Microsoft Java VM. SP2b added in the change made to IE due to the Eolas patent dispute.


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