{"id":106,"date":"2009-07-01T18:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/?p=106"},"modified":"2009-07-01T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:39:21","slug":"switch-windows-xp-licensing-type-with-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/2009\/07\/01\/switch-windows-xp-licensing-type-with-cd\/","title":{"rendered":"Switch Windows XP licensing type and\/or Service Pack with CD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you install a new copy of Windows XP with a retail CD and later try to feed it a volume license (VLK) serial number, Windows will not accept it. Fortunately, there is a way to switch the Windows licensing type without having to reinstall completely. This method can also be used to switch the Service Pack of Windows XP with a CD.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A Windows XP CD with your desired licensing type and service pack<\/li>\n<li>A Windows XP computer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insert the Windows XP CD into the computer.<\/li>\n<li>Restart the computer, booting from CD.<\/li>\n<li>Once Setup has loaded, press Enter.<\/li>\n<li>Accept the license by pressing F8.<\/li>\n<li>Setup will then search for previous (or current) versions of Windows already present on the computer. Once it finds the current installed Windows, select R for &#8220;repair&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Setup will copy a batch of files, then reboot. After the reboot it will re-configure your computer, in which it may (or may not) ask you for a new serial number (e.g. retail to volume licensing).<\/li>\n<li>After a long time reconfiguring, setup will reboot into your newly converted XP install.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you found this article helpful or useful, please help Compdigitec spread the word. Don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/feed\/\">subscribe to Compdigitec Labs<\/a> for more useful or interesting articles!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you install a new copy of Windows XP with a retail CD and later try to feed it a volume license (VLK) serial number, Windows will not accept it. Fortunately, there is a way to switch the Windows licensing type without having to reinstall completely. This method can also be used to switch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[510,511,509,507,513,506,60,508,512,441,505],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.compdigitec.com\/labs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}