Imageing Question

[#1]

I have been looking at 4 PCs for our local community centre. All are in a pretty bad state, Macafee at least 3yrs out of date, Windows is at SP2 etc etc.  I have reformatted and reinstalled one, but to save time, I was going to take an image of this system and image it onto the others.  They are all identical in every way, but I was wondering about the Windows Licence Key ( They all have valid XP licences and COAs on the side).  Can I change the Licence key after imaging, or will it not matter, as all the systems are identical, although I presume some things to do with serial nos etc of hardware will be different.

[#2]

It depends, but if they're all the same manufacturer and you're using an OEM disc to create the image from you should be fine to use the same serial on multiple machines - that's how I understand things from reading posts on here, anyway. I'm sure someone will be along to correct if that's not the case

[#3]

Hi Matt
They were all built by a local computer shop around 7yrs ago.  They only had 256mb RAM....... I have upgraded them to 1Gb now.  The specs are identical, and they all have XP Home OEM.  They only thing I was worried about was the SID, but they are not connected to a domain.  I was going to Image them, with the network cable pulled, change the PC name, then join them to the workgroup.

[#4]

It might be worth installing  XP on one but without validating then take the image.
Once the image is loaded then you could add the serial numbers as appropriate - with a standard OEM disk it still needs to be validated