Injecting XP Serial to related file in XP CD
(Unattended XP Tips)
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HI
There are several ways to setup xp without being asked for SN (The
most used way is using winnt.sif).
Today i want to tell you another way that i think is the best way.
In this tutorial you will need:
1.Resource hacker
2.Modifype.exe (Download from attachment of my another tutor below)
http://www.boot-land...?showtopic=4538
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1)_ From your XP CD copy files bellow to desktop:
WINNT32A.DLL
WINNT32A.DL_
WINNT32U.DLL
WINNT32U.DL_
Note: May be you do not have 2nd and 4th files of above ,it is not important.
2)_ Move WINNT32A.DLL to C:\ ,If you do not have this file,extract
WINNT32A.DL_ (by winrar) to C:\.
3)_ Open WINNT32A.DLL by resource hacker , extand Dialog section and
open folder 144 in left panel, you will see a Dialog window (see
Section A from pic_1 in attachment).This dialog is the dialog that setup
process shows you and you should fill serial number on it.
4)_You see 5 sections in Dialog box,that we should fill each of them by 5
Charactor of serial number. For doing this Click at 1st section (see B in
pic_1 in attachment),By clicking at section 1 you will see that a red
mark (red *) is displayed in right panel of reshack as you can see in picture
by red color i made ,In thi example you are in line bellow:
* CONTROL "",1030,..............
5)_ Now type first 5 charactor of XP serial number between marks "" that you
saw above,for example type XXXXX as picture C in attachment.
Do the same thing for other 4 sections too.
6)_ Now click on Compile script button in up side of reshack(see D from
attachment).
7)_ Untill this time you have modified On section of WINNT32A.DLL.Do the same
process for folders 145 and 158 in left panel of reshack too.
Now save it (as i told in C:\ for this example).
8)_ Do exactly the same process (from 2 trough 6) for file WINNT32U.DLL too and
save it in C:\ .
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Untill now the process of modifing is completly finished,But there is one
important note over here:
Windows XP setup process,checks each files befor using or copying it,and
it will not accept modified files, so if we place these modified files
inside XP CD,during setup it will give error and setup will not continue.
So what should do for our modified files to be accepted during setup?
For this purpose do as bellow:
I supose that
1. you have downloaded "Modifype.exe" and have placed that inside your system32 directory
2.you have placed files WINNT32A.DLL and WINNT32U.DLL in c:\
Now go to command prompt and type:
modifype WINNT32A.DLL -c
press enter and after few sec type:
modifype WINNT32U.DLL -c
press enter
by these commands modified files will be OK to use in xp CD , but we should run
commands bellow too for compressing them
makecab WINNT32A.DLL
makecab WINNT32U.DLL
by these commands files WINNT32A.DL_ and WINNT32U.DL_ will be created in address:
Documents and Settings\Administrator\
of course if the user name is for example xxxx, the fill will be produced in:
Documents and Settings\xxxx\
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Now you can chang these 4 files by the ones inside you I386 directory of XP CD
and burn CD.During setup process there willbe no need to enter serial number.
Note :When you use winnt.sif ,if you setup windows by booting from CD it will not
ask for serial number,but if you begin to setup inside windows it will ask for it,
By the way i talked about you will never be asked for serial.
have nice times
shirin