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by punuakhe

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Hi,
Somebody help me. I am trying to upgrade a 120 day evaluation to full version. Please I need help on how to do this.
Many thanks.

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by omie301

Call up microsoft licensing division and they will give you the key code to upgrade your OS.

by punuakhe

Thanks for the reply. I am trying to tweak the OS cause it is for academeic purpose. I know I have to replace the setupdd.sys and so on in the registry. please somebody help me.
Thanks,
Pat

by timwalsh

Not sure how you are going about this, but you shouldn't have to do anything with files, registry, etc.

To upgrade you must have the full version of Win2K. You cannot use the upgrade-only version unless you have a valid CD from a qualifying previous version of Windows (Win9x or WinNT) and run the Windows 2000 Evaluation Upgrade utility (available from Microsoft).

See Microsoft Knowledbase Article Q253523 - Windows 2000 Professional Evaluation Version Upgrades

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