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Windows XP Tips
Never Re-Activate After Installation
Posted By: Byron Hinson - Mailed In by Manu Raam
If you have to reinstall Windows XP you normally will have to reactivate too. Well not anymore. Just copy wpa.dbl after you activated the first time. It is located in the WINDOWSsystem32 folder. Now if you reinstall Windows XP just copy the file back and you're up and running again.
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