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Windows 98 License problem 4

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aztech

IS-IT--Management
Apr 17, 2001
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I purchased 6 PC's from a company that was going out of business. All of the PC's have Win98SE, but the company could not locate the licenses. So I purchased the licenses from a company on-line. How can I insert the correct license numbers on the PC's without having to format the disk and reload the operating system?
 
Click Start - Run and type Regedit to open the registry editor.

Browse to HKEY_Local_Machine - Software - Microsoft - Windows and click once on Current Version. Scroll down to the Product Key value and double click on it to change it.
 
Also, while in the registry, do a search on the current
license,user and/or company name(s) and change all instances of it to reflect your license, user and/or company
name(s).
 
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