My friend has a notebook with Windows XP Professional installed. I would like to understand which version exactly is and which license type is referred to. The sticker reports an OEM pre-installed XP Home Ed, so I just get infos by read some file or some pop-up by launch a command. For example I can read the serial number from system proprieties. I also can extract product key used for activation.
My goal is to provide all needed infos to, in case, be able to borrow the right version of WinXP CD and reinstall/reactivate the system on the same machine, reusing current extracted product key.
So I'd like to know which version is installed (localization included) and which CD version of XP I need to reuse its working product key.
Thanks in advance! :)
EDIT
to explain why this question is not solved by answers of suggested topic (How can I determine the installed edition of Windows XP if the OS does not boot up?):
c:\windows\system32\prodspec.ini
on our system is just empty, I saw that answer before posting, thanks anyway for suggest.
EDIT2
In reply to who talked about absence of COA. If one loose an old CD with its COA sticker, his system remains still genuine. I think it should be possible to obtain info about license version from an installed system in that case, just it. This topic is not to discuss about cracking or so on. We have a system installed. We want to know more info as possible about its version and license version. That's all, nothing more.
Thanks for all your answers, even if I think they are not completely exhaustive, anyway... thanks again
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