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Dec 15, 2013  OEM Brander is free portable application designed to allow you to edit OEM branding on a Windows PC. When you buy a PC from a manufacturer, they will usually have the Make, Model and Support information in the Systems Property window, as well as a company logo. Here is an example of OEM Support Information set in Windows 10. In System Properties it looks as follows: In Settings, it looks the same information except for the logo. To Change or Add OEM Support Information in Windows 10, do the following. Open Registry Editor and go to the following Registry key.

Looking for solid confirmation on how Windows(XP,Vista,7,8) OEM can be reinstalled/activated

Aug 09, 2017  OEM Brander is a free portable application designed to allow you to edit oem branding on a windows PC. This tool enables you to edit this information and to use your own logo, which will be automatically resized and scaled to fit. OEM Configurator: Portable Utility to Customize OEM Information and Logo in System Properties of Windows. UPDATE: New version 2.0 released which comes with support for Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Now Windows XP users can also enjoy this tool. The tool now also supports 64-bit Windows editions in this new version. Here is an example of OEM Support Information set in Windows 10. In System Properties it looks as follows: In Settings, it looks the same information except for the logo. To Change or Add OEM Support Information in Windows 10, do the following. Open Registry Editor and go to the following Registry key.

OEM Brander is free portable application designed to allow you to edit OEM branding on a Windows PC. When you buy a PC from a manufacturer, they will usually have the Make, Model and Support information in the Systems Property window, as well as a company logo.

Windows XP (Home/Professional) OEM(SLP) (Dell, HP etc.)

Windows 10 Branding Tool

Using

  • GRTMHOEM_EN.iso (Generic Home OEM)
  • en_windows_xp_home_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_x14-92413.iso
  • GRTMPOEM_EN.iso (Generic Professional OEM)
  • en_windows_xp_professional_with_service_pack_3_x86_cd_x14-80428.iso

Install using any media that matches version, use Windows Key Update Tool to activate it as Retail or OEM based on key provided. (True/False)?

Old MethodCreate vendor specific OEM installer

  1. Backup OEM files from target PC

    • C:Windowssystem32OEMBIOS.BIN
    • C:Windowssystem32OEMBIOS.DAT
    • C:Windowssystem32OEMBIOS.SIG
    • C:Windowssystem32Catroot{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}OEMBIOS.CAT
  2. Create .CAB files of target PC files

    • MAKECAB OEMBIOS.BIN
    • MAKECAB OEMBIOS.CAT
    • MAKECAB OEMBIOS.DAT
    • MAKECAB OEMBIOS.SIG
  3. Replace generic OEM ISOs i386 files with newly created .CAB files

  4. Install using COA key

or

  1. Backup Activation Files before reinstall

    • C:Windowssystem32wpa.dbl
    • C:Windowssystem32Wpa.bak
  2. Rename Existing & Replace with backup files after reinstall

    • C:Windowssystem32wpa.dbl
    • C:Windowssystem32Wpa.bak

Windows Vista/7 (ALL) Retail/OEM (Dell, HP etc.)

Using

  • en_windows_vista_sp2_x64_dvd_342267.iso
  • en_windows_vista_with_sp2_x86_dvd_342266.iso
  • en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_677332.iso (ei.cfg removed)
  • en_windows_7_ultimate_with_sp1_x86_dvd_u_677460.iso (ei.cfg removed)

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  1. Backup activation using ABR (Activation Backup and Restore)
  2. Reinstall version on COA sticker
  3. Do not enter key during installation
  4. Restore backed up activation files using ABR
  5. If files not backed up, use online or phone activation

Windows 8 (ALL) Retail/OEM (Dell, HP etc.)

Using

  • en_windows_8_x64_dvd_915440.iso
  • en_windows_8_x86_dvd_915417.iso

Just reinstall, activation is taken care of via BIOS(No COA) or use purchased key if you upgraded.

Can anyone confirm/deny the validity of these methods or make suggestions on how to better accomplish activation after a reinstall? I am mainly concerned with XP since the information I have found is rather scattered and I am not sure if its possible to activate a 'royalty free OEM' using a generic OEM/retail disk install and Windows Key Update Tool or if I would need to use one of the old methods of backing up the files and altering the install disk.

If there are any known issues with activation on any version using the windows images/techniques I listed can someone please elaborate on them. I am asking because I started a new job that requires re-installing every version of windows on various computers that have OEM and retail versions.

The information I gathered on various forums is rather scattered and contradicting, this is why I am posting this seemingly stupid question that you may think has been answered a million times. I want someone to give me a definitive response so I don't screw someones computer up by remove necessary OEM files.

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4 Answers

XP

To install on 'royalty free OEM' machines (HP, DELL, etc.) you can get the vendor's oembios files from the oembios repository, or backed up from the current installation.

You then need to use the SLP (system locked preinstallation) key that corresponds to the installation media's product ID. These used to be archived on the My Digital Life forums, but were taken down due to DMCA request. I'm not sure if the particular vendor key is required, or if those provided by Microsoft will work. If you still have the original installation from the OEM, you can extract the SLP key they used for installation from the registry using a tool like produkey.

(Most antivirus seems to complain about produkey, but I've never had issues with it.)

nLite can help you create the ISO and be very useful for testing in a VM, but it's quite a bit more difficult to test the SLP activation with the VM.


Windows 8/8.1

After a fresh install, the system does not auto activate and when one tries to enter the correct OEM Product Key (extracted from BIOS), it is refused. The trick is to first remove the current Product Key with slmgr /upk, then the OEM key can be entered and activation works flawlessly.This idea comes from Clean install Windows 8.1 or Windows 8 from OEM key, which also describes how to get the OEM key using RW Everything (including video tutorial!). Really this has saved me several hours, maybe days of experimenting. If you find it helpful, please upvote that answer instead of this one.

I also created a small PowerShell script to accomplish all the steps in a fully automated manner, which is great for mass OS deployments (e.g. using the amazing OPSI):

Successfully (re)installed and activated 64 Win 8.1 Pro x64 OEM laptops with this.

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Windows 7

I found this techdoors link on activating Windows 7 with OEM licenses to be invaluable.

If you have a computer that has an Windows 7 OEM license embedded in the BIOS SLIC area, and then reinstall a generic image, it will claim to be not genuine. To verify, run this command from a cmd prompt with administrator privs:

It will say 'License Status: Notification', and 'Notification Reason: 0xC004F063'.

To fix that, find the proper OEM key file from this repository from the link above, and then run:

where [VENDOR] is the name of your computer vendor.

Now run

again, and it should say 'License Status: Licensed'.

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Oem Brander For Windows 10

Custom Windows 10 Oem Branding

To check your BIOS SLIC area, you can use the Microsoft Genuine Diagnostics Tool and look in the 'OEM Activation 2.0 Data' section.

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