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Hi guys, I am a second year student and because of financial restraints have
recently purchased a second hand laptop, on which I overwrote the OS with
Windows XP Pro. I do not have the original disk for the version of XP which
was on the laptop, so used an old one which a friend activated with some
crack or something on a disc.
Everything was fine until the 30 day period ended and I was asked to
activate. When I switched on I recieve a message saying this product has to
be activated, when clicking on ok the computer shows another message saying
it is already activated then logs off. Basically I am stuck in a loop and
cannot log on. Now reading the articles on the forum I realise that this may
have been illegal and I will have to buy another version of windows xp pro.

This I am willing to do, however I have heard mentioned that because this is
a company laptop the 'bios' may have been written only to work with the
original copy of XP. Therefore whatever I do the system is useless and is not
going to work.

Is this true, if so I have been well diddled....

As you may have gathered I do not now much about computers so any help would
be greatly appreciated.
 
Mark. wrote:

(snip - multiposted)

Asked and already answered in the other newsgroup to which you posted.
Please see this link for an explanation of why multiposting will get
you *less* help and how to crosspost correctly.

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

If you have forgotten where else you posted or can't find your post, use
Google Groups Advanced Search and search for your name.

Malke
 
3QM4M-868CW-WB6RQ-K6HP3-7C79J
8MFJK-WH8FJ-2VWVB-XKDCQ-3JM7W
8V782-7YVMD-MW4P2-W63WT-V28JD
D6DV7-68J8R-2647H-2VHFK-YV2HT
 
It shouldn't take MS too long to add these to the list of invalid
Product keys... You can't be too bright posting that on a Microsoft server!

John
 
John said:
It shouldn't take MS too long to add these to the list of invalid
Product keys... You can't be too bright posting that on a Microsoft
server!
Click to expand...


And posting with what appears to be his real E-mail address too!
 
....and IP address!

Tom

| John John wrote:
|
| > It shouldn't take MS too long to add these to the list of invalid
| > Product keys... You can't be too bright posting that on a Microsoft
| > server!
|
|
| And posting with what appears to be his real E-mail address too!
|
| --
| Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
| Please reply to the newsgroup
|
|
| > zubzero wrote:
| >
| >> xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
| >> xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
| >> xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
| >> xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
|
|
 
John said:
An MSN account to top it off!

John
Click to expand...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!!!!
HOW STUPID WAS THAT?!?!
Real IP + real email + ruining cd keys that MAIBE could work ;)
(I'm not gonna use them because they probably won't work in SP2 and it's
illegal. Gonna buy Xp for my NEW computer after 1 week or so, yay!:) ).
 
zubzero said:
3QM4M-868CW-WB6RQ-K6HP3-7C79J
8MFJK-WH8FJ-2VWVB-XKDCQ-3JM7W
8V782-7YVMD-MW4P2-W63WT-V28JD
D6DV7-68J8R-2647H-2VHFK-YV2HT
Click to expand...

Zubzero must be your IQ...what a whack job posting those on a Microsoft
hosted newsgroup.

Did your parents have any children that weren't brain-dead?

Bobby
 
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