[clue] VMWare question

[Richard Knechtel]

I am running the free version of  VMWare server v2 in Fedora 17. I 
created a vmware image of my old WIndows XP system and fired it up 
under VMWare. However any program I had installed in it acts like it 
isn't registered and wants me to "re register".  I have been 
searching and searching for anything similar on the web to this and 
have come up with nothing. Does anyone know if there is some setting 
or something so you don't basically have to re register every single 
applications installed in the guest os?

Thanks,