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by cmhjon

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Recently I have started playing with Ghost to
deploy a couple of new PC's with Win98SE. I
want to ensure that licensing-wise, everything
is as legit as possible.

After creating the master image and ghosting
it to the other PC's, the product key and its
resulting serial number are the same
(obviously) as the master. I know how to
change the product key in the registry but
since I didn't actually have to enter the product
key with each PC install, how can I determine
whatserial would be generated based on the
product key? Is there a program out there
somewhere that will do this?

Any help is appreciated.

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by pctech

Hi,

I do not have an answer to your question, but as long as you have the software license for the software installed, you are legal. Should you be audited, all you need to do is to produce the software license. Microsoft may wish they could fineyou for this, but you do have the license for each system and this all that is required by law.

BTW, Microsoft allows backwards licensing as well. You can use the license for the newer OS to cover an older OS, as long as the newer OS is not installed anywhere.

I hope this helps

by tg2

Instead of changing your key... delete it all together, THEN make your ghost version.

upon putting the ghosted version onto the next pc and booting it, you will get the "enter CDKey" screen. Once done there, it creates the entries it needs in the registry.

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