invalid product key

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albano

A few months back my hard drive blew out. I had it
replaced with a new hard drive. I re-installed xp, now
windows is working, but I can't open my word or publisher
because it says the product key is invalid. Xp came with
my computer, and they gave me a disk and product code,
now that my warrenty is up, they're leaving me in the
cold and want me to pay for an extended warrenty for any
help, can anyone help me out here?
 
After you reinstalled windows xp, did you reinstall word and publisher ? The
windows xp registry contained the product keys for these 2 products which
you would have lost by resinstalling xp. Even if the word and
publishedrprograms remained on disk after the reintstall of xp, you need to
reinstall them to correctly update their information in the registry.

Paul
 
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