Running XP Professional .iso on VMWARE on Win 11

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An older VMWare version (6) went haywire on my Win 10, so I figured I'd try their version 16 on Win 11 and Install a copy of XP Professional -32-bit. Everything is OK until one has to put in the Product Key. This can be found on the .iso in .txt files. But the Installer keeps refuting it [and I certainly did not get it wrong 4 times!] The only advice I can find is a) a Registry Key fiddle that doesn't exist in Win 11, and b) a suggestion that since XP in all its manifestations is no longer supported by Microsoft, too bad... This advice doesn't make sense, as a lot of us Users need older vers

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