[nzlug] recondition laptop windows licence revisited

[Simon Bridge]

On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 01:39 +1300, Nevyn wrote:
> I found it a real laugh at one point when you could create the
> installation cd's from the laptop itself (Do they still have this
> "feature"?). Of course, at the time, not all laptops came with a cd
> writer. Seemed sort of silly to me. You could create installation cd's
> from the hard drive which, given the speed that Windows can get
> infected with whatever, would mean you had no real notion of the
> integrity of your installation media.

AFAIK: thus created install media contains only the base system ...
though nobody knows what of the registry gets copied, third party stuff
didn't get a lookin.

I think you cannot do this with vista (anybody) and I havn't seen such a
tool on my XP machine.