Microsoft Product ID and Product Key
My son's PC has been giving him fits as of late. He uses the PC for school work but also plays a number of online games. When he started having problems and asked me to take a look the first thing that I noticed was that the Trend Micro anti virus solution that I had installed was not running. After much angst and discussion of what sites he'd been to and what software he had downloaded and installed we discovered that the problem was simple. He ran out of disk space on the system volume.
I was able to free up about 400 MB and get the PC running again. We are looking at some quality father - son bonding time as we back up the hard drive, scrape it clean and then install XP all over again. This time we'll make sure the system volume partition is larger than 8 GB (seemed OK when he was 9 playing Tonka).
Before you can re-install you need to have the XP product key. I make a label for each my OS CDs and DVDs and then p[lace that label on a case (with another label that has the OS name and version). I don;t have one of these for my son's PC. We found the product key easily enough (My Computer, right click, Properties, it's the 20 digit number below the owners name). How to find the original installation product key?
I learned of this program years ago. I have it on a USB key I use for disasters. I never wrote down a we link to where I got it. Now I have. It's Magical Jell Bean Software's Key Finder. Great stuff.
I was able to free up about 400 MB and get the PC running again. We are looking at some quality father - son bonding time as we back up the hard drive, scrape it clean and then install XP all over again. This time we'll make sure the system volume partition is larger than 8 GB (seemed OK when he was 9 playing Tonka).
Before you can re-install you need to have the XP product key. I make a label for each my OS CDs and DVDs and then p[lace that label on a case (with another label that has the OS name and version). I don;t have one of these for my son's PC. We found the product key easily enough (My Computer, right click, Properties, it's the 20 digit number below the owners name). How to find the original installation product key?
I learned of this program years ago. I have it on a USB key I use for disasters. I never wrote down a we link to where I got it. Now I have. It's Magical Jell Bean Software's Key Finder. Great stuff.
