[accyman]

Originally Posted by entwisi

Get IT Done: Change the product key on Windows XP

obviously needs you to be a little brave in editing the registry or get one of teh local helpfuls with time to pop round to do it for you.

its more than likely the key on the laptop is for home and whats on now is professional so changing the key wont help much

on the key sticker it shoud say wether its for home or professional

if it says home and you have profesional installed dont bother messing with the registry it wont work

regardless if you use the wga fix you will get updates and its a lot easier to do yourself if your in a hurry

either way you wont loose drivers or data but if you screw teh registry up thats when you will start getting problems