I have a slight problem.
Our company just received 35 new Dell desktops from a reseller. My department is in charge of creating a new XP image and deploying the image to the desktops. The desktops came with Windows 2000 OEM keys so we would have to use other keys.
After a machine was ghosted and windows xp setup was started, we put in an XP key from our list of available XP keys. What we didn’t realize was that the keys that we were inputting were OEM keys from some of our laptops. We had already finished 12 PC’s.
We realized now that we must somehow change the product key to an unused retail box key from our inventory. Without having to re-ghost or do long repair install on each PC, is there a way to change the product key from an oem to a retail key through the registry or another third party program?
I’ve looked through many forums and tried different options but nothing seems to work for Service Pack 2.
Thanks,
TechGuy
