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I'm only guessing, but this could provide a clue: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3fterm=fckgw-rhqq2-yxrkt-8tg6w-2b7q8&amp=true

• fxfan 8y ago
  What the actual hell. Who even remembers the key? And more importantly why? Why would you install XP once a week to remember it? I'm shocked by this subthread!
  • pvg 8y ago
    It was the first consumer NT-based Windows, the first with activation and this key, which let you bypass all that, was out before the OS was officially released.
  • rjf72 8y ago
    'Back in the day' regular formats were a pretty good way of maintaining system performance. They still are really but computers being an order of magnitude overpowered for all the tasks 90% of users do makes it less relevant. You'd be surprised how easy it is to memorize long series of digits when you enter them a few times. For instance FCKGW. Who was the president in 2001? You'll now literally never forget those 5 letters.
    • psalminen 8y ago
      That was the first thing I thought of at the beginning of this thread.
  • bluedino 8y ago
    Popular electronics stores would do a in-store setup of your computer before you left with it. Part of this involved entering the users name and windows key. I probably used the same key to setup over 1000 PC's when I worked there.