Norman Bauman wrote: > That's funny. When I looked there for my Product Key in Win98, it wasn't > there. It worked like you say, but without an entry for Product Key. > > This could be very useful if you had a computer, the startup disks, but not > the product key (which in my case is printed on the cover of the little > Windows manual I got with the computer), and you wanted to install Windows > on a larger hard drive, or delete the old OS and start all over. Almost certainly it is in there. However, there have long been keyless, NO s/# distros of these operating systems . . . presumably right up to XP. They are intended for the IT Dept. administrators at large enterpirse customers, where there is a need to deploy hundreds or 1000s of workstations as efficiently and expeditiously as possible. But I tend to doubt you have stumbled across one of those. Jordan