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What happens to the registration code when upgrading from Windows 3.1?

April 26, 2017code happens registration upgrading Windows

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What happens to the registration code when upgrading from Windows 3.1?

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If you have a machine that is running ZTERM 2000 on Windows 3.1, when upgrading to Windows 95 or Windows NT, ensure that the WIN.INI file is kept during the upgrade process. You might have to copy it from the old \Windows directory to the new Windows directory (\Winnt for example) in the case where you decided to install a fresh copy of Windows, rather than overwriting the existing installation. When ZTERM 2000 first runs, it looks for the old registration keys in WIN.INI and if found, moves them to the Windows Registry. If it couldn’t find the keys in WIN.INI, new keys are created which expire in 14 days. Should you upgrade and erase WIN.INI before ZTERM 2000 is first run on the new operating system, you will need to edit WIN.INI and move the keys from WIN.INI to the Windows Registry using the REGEDIT program by hand.