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Well provided they where the exact changes made with no typos it should be working. Since your now stuck between a rock and a hard place the easy answer is to remove the HDD fit it to another computer as a Slave and edit the registry from the other computer.

If there are no typos reset things back to their default values and try again to see if it will boot. Because XP has some funny ideas about hardware changes you may be required to reactivate the product again but use the telephone option and not the auto activation option over the Internet it is slower and painful but it really works out faster in the long run. Just a trick that I've picked up here if you want to speak to a person and not a computer do not enter in the code when asked just keep pushing the 1 button till you hear I can sense you are having problems press 1 to speak to an operator. It is really much faster.

Col

Have you tried doing a system restore to a time before you made these changes?

Well, in fact, after a lot of retries, I could manage to make the Activation (phone option), what I intended to avoid.

But what I was asking is whether those Memory Management changes could credibly bring about the loss of the Activation data.
(HAL 9000: No typos: I got to either key "going down" the tree inside Regedit).

Perhaps something went away with the deleted pagefile.sys? Unlikely... I understand Activation data reside in wpa.dbl/wpa.bak, which I could not restore, since I wasn't able to logon to Windows.
(Sue T: for the same reason I couldn't even consider a System Restore).

Thanks for your answers.

HI,
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