xp needs activating or something please please help

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Mike

Hi
Firstly
I hope this is the right newsgroup if not can someone please direct me to
the correct newsgroup.

The problem

I owned a Samsung NC10 netbook it worked perfectly no problems at all. I
didnt use it much so I sold it on ebay.

After the buyer bought it I got the following message from him about a
problem with activating windows I didnt have this problem or was I ever
asked to activate windows so I do not know how to answer his question can
someone please help me.

Heres is he's message.............

Hi Mike. I have received the NC10. Upon powering up I receive a Windows
Product Activation warning that states 'This copy of Windows must be
activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate
Windows now? If I put yes it just gives me a screen with pictures of flowers
on it, if I say no, I get a log on screen which says welcome and Samsung
NC10. If I choose that it just gives me the screen asking if I want to
activate Windows. I am not very computer literate, so don't know what I
should do? Thanks, LT

........

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers Mike
 
Hi Thanks for the reply.

All documentation and cd were included. Unfortunatly the NC10 netbook does
not have a dvd drive. Do you know if it is possible to restore from a sd
card or memory stick. if the information from the cd is copied onto it.

Cheers Mike
 
Mike said:
Hi
Firstly
I hope this is the right newsgroup if not can someone please direct me
to the correct newsgroup.

The problem

I owned a Samsung NC10 netbook it worked perfectly no problems at all. I
didnt use it much so I sold it on ebay.

After the buyer bought it I got the following message from him about a
problem with activating windows I didnt have this problem or was I ever
asked to activate windows so I do not know how to answer his question
can someone please help me.

Heres is he's message.............

Hi Mike. I have received the NC10. Upon powering up I receive a Windows
Product Activation warning that states 'This copy of Windows must be
activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate
Windows now? If I put yes it just gives me a screen with pictures of
flowers on it, if I say no, I get a log on screen which says welcome and
Samsung NC10. If I choose that it just gives me the screen asking if I
want to activate Windows. I am not very computer literate, so don't know
what I should do? Thanks, LT

.......

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers Mike
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Mike:

Perhaps the person you sold the netbook to does not realize it has to
have a functional internet connection to use the "online" version of
product activation. It may be as simple as telling him to make sure
there is a functional Cat-5 cable plugged into the units NIC.

HTH & GL

John

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Hi. Thanks for your responce

Their is no cd, dvd or any other optical drive on the NC10.

Thats why I was wandering if a memory card would work or if I would need an
external drive.

Cheers Mike
 
Hi John

Thanks for that. I will pass on that information.

I personally didnt have any problem with activation but I alway had a
wireless connection available so perhaps thats why.

Cheers Mike
 
The NC10 is not considered a laptop. It's considerably smaller and is
called a "Netbook."
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It's just a matter of terminology of course--and we all don't use
words in exactly the same way--but to me, what people call a "netbook"
is nothing but a small laptop.

In fact, I wish there was no such word as "netbook," and people simply
called them small laptop. I own both an older laptop (which I no
longer use) and what's called a "netbook" (an EEE 1080HA). The netbook
is almost identical to the laptop, except for the following:

1. It's smaller, lighter, and therefore easier to carry when I travel.

2. It's considerably faster and more powerful, with more RAM, a faster
processor, and a bigger hard drive than the older laptop.

3. It has no CD/DVD drive, and I use an external one with it.

To me, there's nothing in that list of three differences that warrants
its having a different name.
 
It's just a matter of terminology of course--and we all don't use
words in exactly the same way--but to me, what people call a "netbook"
is nothing but a small laptop.

In fact, I wish there was no such word as "netbook," and people simply
called them small laptop. I own both an older laptop (which I no
longer use) and what's called a "netbook" (an EEE 1080HA). The netbook
is almost identical to the laptop, except for the following:

1. It's smaller, lighter, and therefore easier to carry when I travel.

2. It's considerably faster and more powerful, with more RAM, a faster
processor, and a bigger hard drive than the older laptop.

3. It has no CD/DVD drive, and I use an external one with it.

To me, there's nothing in that list of three differences that warrants
its having a different name.
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Understood. However, the devices that are nonetheless referred to as
"netbooks" don't have optical drives (that was the point of my post).
Like you, I see these devices as a subset of laptops (or notebooks --
yet another term!). Philo wasn't aware of any laptops that lack optical
drives. These days, of course, there are quite a few. And many people
(perhaps because of marketing) don't consider netbooks laptops.
 
Understood. However, the devices that are nonetheless referred to as
"netbooks" don't have optical drives (that was the point of my post).
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I don't know for sure that *none* of them do, but you are very likely
right, since having such a drive would add size and weight to them.

Like you, I see these devices as a subset of laptops (or notebooks --
yet another term!).
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Yep, three names for the same thing. Ugh!

Philo wasn't aware of any laptops that lack optical
drives. These days, of course, there are quite a few.
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And in the old days, that was true of almost all of them. I didn't
mention it before, but I also have an old (Windows 95-era) laptop that
I haven't used in years. That too has no optical drive.


And many people
(perhaps because of marketing) don't consider netbooks laptops.
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Alas, you are undoubtedly right. The unfortunate power of marketing.
 
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