Sysprep doesn't remove product key

I've had this work in the past and no idea why this is happening.  When I run sysprep /generalize /oobe /reboot it never removes the product key.  It asks for everything but that.  Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks!

I figured it out.  Here are my notes.
http://roadzy.blogspot.com/2014/05/sysprep-does-not-remove-product-key.html

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