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How to Activate XP without a Genuine Product Key

Microsoft no longer supports XP so turn off automatic updates, since there will no longer be any changes
to the XP platform, if you try to pass windows validation you will get a star on your taskbar that says
windows doesn't pass validation and it will not go away without making changes to the system files. Also
it might give you a countdown to activate within 30 days and then changing the registry key wont work
you will have to do a clean install...I have used this method and it worked well for me...Good Luck and
enjoy!!!

1 Click on Start

2 Find and Click "Run"

3 Type: Regedit

4 Click the plus next to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE"

5 Click the plus next to "SOFTWARE"

6 Click the plus next to "Microsoft"

7 Click the plus next to "Windows NT"

8 Click the plus next to "CurrentVersion"

9 Click "WPAEvents"

10 On the right panel, find "OOBETimer" then double click it.

11 Now, Delete all the Values by highlighting it, then delete it

12 Then type in this value without the quotation mark "FF D5 71 D6 8B 6A 8D 6F D5 33 93 FD"

13 Then after that click OK,

14 Then on the left panel right click WPAEvents, then click on permissions

15 Then click System or SYSTEM, then Deny Full Control, then Click OK.

16 Then Exit Registry Editor by Click the X or the red X on the Upper Right of the Title Bar or press ALT
and F4 at the same time.

17 To Verify that it works, go to start, then "activate windows", or go to start, then all programs, then
"activate windows"

18 If it says that Windows has been activated, then the trick works, if not repeat these steps.