OpenAI’s ChatGPT is able to generate free product keys for a Windows operating system (OS), first shared by Gizmodo. The OS in question is Windows 95, which, as the name suggests, was released in 1995 ...

I also tried using the product key for the copy of XP that I use at work, but I think that it's SP1, so it makes sense that it doesn't work. I'm running out of ideas.

But the registry in 2000/XP only contains a Product ID, which is not the product key. This program that you've referenced does not grab the product key from a magical file or from the registry.

Microsoft turned off the servers required to activate Windows XP long ago, so you can’t use a genuine old product key to activate the OS. Well, not online anyway, though from what we can see on ...

For years now the go-to way to activate a fresh Windows XP install relies on a tool called WindowsXPKg, available on Github. It's a keygen that can generate endless product keys for XP.

This is the Windows 95 product key entry screen. If you enter an invalid product key, you will not be able to continue the installation, but even a simple product key of '111-1111111' will be ...

The hack which many have taken advantage of, using Windows 7/8's old product keys to install the latest OS including Windows 10 and 11 is now gone, as Microsoft enforced a new directive for this.