XP Pro - Volume license

[ratsalad]

Hi,

Does anyone know what files are different between xp pro and volume license?

Thanks,

RS

[John.D]

You dont have to activate volume I think (thats if you paid for it). Otherwise the key is probably blacklisted

[koppit]

Otherwise the key is probably blacklisted

Not quite sure what you meant, but yeah, volume licensing means you don't have to activate it - but if you go over the amount of computers allowed per license (say, you purchase a license for 20 computers and you install on 25), windows update will notice this eventually, and will invalidate the key. Volume licensing is usually XP Pro - afaik - meant for a domain environment.

[Dance.]

Does anyone know what files are different between xp pro and volume license?

No difference in the files. Only a difference in the activation as stated above :).

[John.D]

The corp version is classed as volume isnt it?? Which is what will get blacklisted, if it is

[xdot.tk]

No one has really answered his question. Here are the differences...

Retail VL
Produced: 11/15/2009 5:22:58 PM

Mode:  Differences
Left base folder: F:\Retail
Right base folder: F:\VL

Name		 CRC		 Name		 CRC
----------------------------------------------
I386					 I386
+DPCDLL.DL_  86CC5687 <> +DPCDLL.DL_  6EE69802
+OEMBIOS.BI_ FB29B210 <> +OEMBIOS.BI_ 3DAA5377
+OEMBIOS.CA_ AFDAED2E <> +OEMBIOS.CA_ 40B671DC
+OEMBIOS.DA_ 0A1CDB7D <> +OEMBIOS.DA_ 68BCBD7B
+OEMBIOS.SI_ 096A2966 <> +OEMBIOS.SI_ 31753C59
+PIDGEN.DLL  82860A56 <> +PIDGEN.DLL  4782A67D
\SETUPP.INI  ED6B28A8 <> \SETUPP.INI  0A7C4371
----------------------------------------------

[ratsalad]

Thanks Lepton,

That's exactly what I wanted to know.

RS

[koppit]

Ah, apologies, I was reading the second post and replied to that more than the first..

I wouldn't have had an answer for it, anyways :)