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2. Microsoft Product Activation - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Product Activation is a DRM technology used by Microsoft Corporation in several of its computer software programs, most notably its Windows operating system and its Office productivity suite. The procedure enforces compliance with the program's end-user license agreement by transmitting information about both the product key used to ...

3. System Locked Pre-installation - Wikipedia

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   A royalty has been paid by the manufacturer if the board has an SLP key. Each manufacturer is issued with their own modified copy of Windows XP or Windows 7 that recognizes their own unique keys. Windows 8 will install on any UEFI motherboard containing a valid encrypted Microsoft product key since a royalty has been prepaid.

4. Product key - Wikipedia

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   A product key, also known as a software key, serial key or activation key, is a specific software-based key for a computer program. It certifies that the copy of the program is original. Product keys consist of a series of numbers and/or letters. This sequence is typically entered by the user during the installation of computer software, and is ...

5. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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   Windows XP Professional x64 Edition uses a technology named Windows-on-Windows 64-bit (WOW64), which permits the execution of 32-bit x86 applications. It was first employed in Windows XP 64-Bit Edition (for the Itanium), but then reused for the "x64 Editions" of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

6. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is an edition of Windows XP for x86-64 personal computers. It was released by Microsoft on April 25, 2005, around the same time as with the x86-64 versions of Windows Server 2003. It is designed to use the expanded 64-bit memory address space provided by the x86-64 architecture.

7. Windows XP - Wikipedia

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   e. Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft 's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25, 2001. It is a direct successor to Windows 2000 for high-end and business users and Windows Me for home users. Development of Windows XP began in the late 1990s under the codename ...

8. Product activation - Wikipedia

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   Product activation. Product activation is a license validation procedure required by some proprietary software programs. Product activation prevents unlimited free use of copied or replicated software. Unactivated software refuses to fully function until it determines whether it is authorized to fully function. Activation allows the software.

9. Windows Setup - Wikipedia

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   The user enters a Windows product key to activate it, though this step can be skipped. The user accepts a license agreement. The user chooses where to install Windows. A list of drives and their partitions are shown. The user picks one to install Windows on, and the user can make new partitions, delete them or load any hardware drivers if ...