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If you are relating the Service Pack 3 for Wondows, you do not need a product key, if after installing SP3 in Windows it is asking you for a product key than your copy of Windoze is illegal you will need to purchase a licence from Micro$oft...
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The product key is a set of 5 5digit numbers that is unique to each copy of xp. If you are running a legal copy of xp and have lost your product key, you can find it by using a program called ProduKey. It is a free program from nirsoft. Go to www.nirsoft.com for the free download. I believe that you can download sp3 from the microsoft website, if your copy of xp is legit. If your xp is bootleg, then go to the store and buy a copy of xp. It is the proper way to do things. Dano
If you need a product key then you'll have to buy it. If you bought Windows xp from a retail store and it didn't have a product key you need to contact the store. Otherwise you'll have to buy a new copy of Windows to get the product key. No one will give you a product key on here. It's illegal.
This sounds like your original product key is either fake or has been hijacked and distributed though the net. Microsoft have a database of keys that are not REAL keys and ones that have been shared out over multiple PC's.
It may have been working ok in Service Pack 2 as the copy protection that checks the key has been removed or disabled. So putting on Service Pack 3 has reenabled the key checker or has put a new product key checker in.
As any windows platform can be upgraded and the key will still work. So going from SP2 to SP3 will be ok if the product key is legit.
First double check your key id a real key. It will be on a holographic or green sticker that if removed from where it is stuck will come off in little pieces and not be readable.
If you believe your key is legit then you can contact Microsoft through their site and request a new key to be sent out. They will investigate your claim and may even ask for you to send your existing key (Sticker) back to them.
There are other ways of making your windows genuine by downloading programs like Make your Windows Genuine from torrent sites, but these methods are not reconmended and your windows will still be an unauthorised edition. This can also be view as software piracy so I personally would not attempt it.
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