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How do I determine a pirated copy of WMCE?

We have a customer who just brought in a gateway latop that a friend of his did a recovery of Windows Meda Center.  It is a Gateway Computer.

How can we determine if there is a pirated copy of Media Center on it?  We thing that it was an XP Pro license originally.

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XP Pro license should work for WMCE, so I would think that it would be a long shot....You can open the setupp.ini and compare the [PID] value to the following site....

Product IDs
http://wiki.djlizard.net/Product_IDs

Also, is it activated, or installed with teh latest WGA update?

You can attempt activation, and install the WGA update to verify....

start>run>cmd.exe>"c:\windows\system32\oobe\msoobe.exe" /a

Will tell you if it is activated....
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