XP CD Used To Many Times

**Kodiak** · December 19th, 2011, 01:02 PM

The church where I go has used there cd on all their machines and of course it shows there installations may be counterfeit, the question is if I have some valid keys can I just change the key on these with a key changer to make them legit? They are not a volume licens.

**Niclo Iste** · December 19th, 2011, 01:09 PM

Depends on the disk they used. If they used a Dell, IBM, etc then you'd need keys bought from them. If it's a OEM disk, then any other OEM key should work provided that they are new. In my experience keys from a newer release won't work on disks for older releases. Examples XP-SP1 key won't work on XP disks that were before SP1, same would go for SP3. However if the disk is SP3 and the keys are prior to it they should work fine.

**Ferrit** · December 20th, 2011, 01:49 AM

Also if these keys have been used before and even if the computer they were in is retired i think that isnt strictly legal. Although its awful hard to interpret.
Best advice I can give is "Be sure"