Hi everyone,I'm trying to help a staff member of mine with their home computer. Basically I need to run a Windows repair on a Dell Dimension Desktop and the OS is XP Pro. I have standard Dell XP Pro SP2 CD which I slipstreamed to XP Pro SP3. I wanted to give them instructions, so I did a repair on a test machine at work which runs using a VLM license. The repair went well, but upon completion, it requested activation and I put in my 25-digit VLM Product key and it did NOT accept that. No problem for me as I will just re-install using the VLM CD. She does have the authenticate Windows product key sticker on the side of her machine. My questions is, before I send her home with this disk to run the repair, I want to feel confident that she won't have any problems with activation using her product key with the disk I created? Can someone confirm this for me that the activation problem I experience was because I tried using a VLM product Key with a Windows XP Pro OEM install disk? If that's the case, then it should be fine for her, right?Thanks for you help!1 person got this answerI do too

I think yes. Meaning u could not activate the xp coz u have used the VLM key for oem just check out the warning in the following kb article :- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874