----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary R. Tennesen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 6:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Serial number
Gary
If you can get to the regestry you can go to hkey-local machine,software,
microsoft,windows and current version and it shows the serial number there.
If not you can restart your computer to command prompt only. go to
c:\windows and rename win.com win2 then reinstall your windows.
Jimmy Hodges

>   A customer copies CD directory of cd d:\win98\*.* to c:\w98 in order to
> speed installation and a variety of other reasons.
>
> Customer runs c:\w98\setup months later when a re-installation of Windows
is
> needed and cannot use his serial number.  My guess is that it wants THE
> original serial number from before since about 10 serials have been tried
> all stating that they are invalid while in fact, they are valid.
>
> The time I've seen this in the past, we've had to delete the entire
> c:\Windows directory and reinstall.  Afterwards, any one of the other
serial
> worked.
>
> Is there any other way around this?
>
> --gary r. tennesen
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