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Re-Activating tip

Reinstall

Re-Activating tip

by  Bobg1  Posted    (Edited  )
If you have to reinstall Windows XP you normally will have to re-activate too. Well not anymore.
Just copy wpa.dbl after you activated the first time. It is located in the system32 folder. Now if you reinstall Windows XP just copy the file back and you're up and running again.
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