Validation for Windows Update

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Latest road block:

Michael Stevens' very valuable FAQ has #18 "I need to change
my Product Key". Therein is a link to download xppid.zip and one
for same with source code. When I click those, I get
Error 404 ... Not found. Not that I need help in finding
the product key...... You might say that I'm just 'reporting the
news'....and proceeding with the next Key Finder......which may
or may not be able to be found....
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I think a summary/status report might be in order here.

First, the FAQ 18 -"I need to change my Product Key" gives
links to places that I am unable to reach.

Then there is a simple, neat little key-changer (rockxp.exe)
which it linked me to, and I downloaded and installed and tried,
and it showed my current key, the illegal one, and I tried
to get it to change to what I consider to be legal, and it
just flicked but didn't change.

So, the worthy FAQ is for now, a dead end. And what I'm hoping that
you MVPs will confirm for me, is that the fact that I installed
a new XP-Pro as an update from 98, and activated it, and validated
it, via the new Windows Update, and the Custom option of WU ran
and installed the 41 critical updates that I selected, has
established that I have a valid legal key on that system. I need
a way to change the illegal key to that valid key, if you agree
that it is valid.

Somewhere in this extended thread, I think I saw a link to some
software which could transfer all of the applications and files
from one system to another. If that exists, I could just use it
to make the newly installed system my master, and then deep-six
the old system with the invalid product key.
 
I think a summary/status report might be in order here.

First, the FAQ 18 -"I need to change my Product Key" gives
links to places that I am unable to reach.

Then there is a simple, neat little key-changer (rockxp.exe)
which it linked me to, and I downloaded and installed and tried,
and it showed my current key, the illegal one, and I tried
to get it to change to what I consider to be legal, and it
just flicked but didn't change.

So, the worthy FAQ is for now, a dead end. And what I'm hoping that
you MVPs will confirm for me, is that the fact that I installed
a new XP-Pro as an update from 98, and activated it, and validated
it, via the new Windows Update, and the Custom option of WU ran
and installed the 41 critical updates that I selected, has
established that I have a valid legal key on that system. I need
a way to change the illegal key to that valid key, if you agree
that it is valid.

Somewhere in this extended thread, I think I saw a link to some
software which could transfer all of the applications and files
from one system to another. If that exists, I could just use it
to make the newly installed system my master, and then deep-six
the old system with the invalid product key.
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Michael Stevens was kind enough to reactivate the XPPID link
in XP FAQ #18, previously reported. So I downloaded it,
installed it, and executed it. It asked for the new key,
and I gave it the key that I used last week, to install,
activate, and validate a new installation. In that new
installation, I also updated WU, and did custom Windows
Update, so I presume the key I used should have been
accepted by XPPID. I ran XPPID, it seemed to do everything
right, told me to reboot for change to take effect. I did,
but it didn't. Repeated process... same old key.

What next?
 
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