Volume license key changer

It works on just about any Windows operating system from 98 onward and is a standalone portable executable but does need to be run as administrator on Vista and 7. Usage is pretty straightforward and you simply choose your drive from the drop down box, enter the new serial number and click the Change button. You will then need to reboot to commit the changes. Another useful tool to change the volume serial number is by Sysinternals called VolumeID. You should shut down all your running applications before using this tool and will need to reboot immediately after the changes if they are being made on an NTFS partition.

Download Sysinternals VolumeID. These are hard coded into the hard drive itself and cannot simply be edited or altered using a piece of software. There is also an option to set your own predefined serial number although we were unable to get that function to work during testing. Make sure to run PB DownForce as administrator. You can easily use the Stop Spoofing button and try another random number. Perform test will quickly tell what drive model name and serial has been given.

The image below shows a new serial after using PB DownForce to change a hard disk serial number in the PC Wizard hardware information tool. Do note that some tools such as Speccy will still show the original serial number for the drive because they gather their data in another way, HWInfo does something different again and will show the spoofed drive as another completely new hard drive in its list.

PB DownForce was tested and worked on Windows XP and Windows 7 bit although it still was quite random to which machines worked and which showed no change or produced an error.

The spoofed serial will return to normal after a reboot. Download PB DownForce. Reboot as in restart. Well the Windows Service I grabbed turned out to be a.

Could be bad.. Windows Defender is well known for false positives. The good news is, it does not contain a trojan. Antivirus and security software obviously hates programs like these because they are essentially hacking tools. Tried installing it it kept showing me an error dialog box Error:communication failed.

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