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| Thread ID: 56801 | 2005-04-15 10:43:00 | XP activation, how many times? | Shortcircuit (1666) | Press F1 |
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| 345357 | 2005-04-15 10:43:00 | OK, I think I have re activated XP about 3 times now by phone after various reformats/reinstalls etc, along with new hard drive and some extra ram. Does anyone know how many times you can re activate/register XP before MS gets funny about it? I know some people have said that it will make allowances for 3-4 hardware changes, so hopefully a new HD and ram don't count and I can just keep re-installing and re-registering my copy of XP. |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 345358 | 2005-04-15 10:56:00 | So long as you keep ringing them and telling them you are activating because of a format, they will keep activating it. Why activate by phone by the way. Why not just wait until you are online and activate that way? And hardware only matters if you are using a recovery CD, in which case it usually throws a huffy. Then you got problems |
Myth (110) | ||
| 345359 | 2005-04-15 11:04:00 | Because I don't have an internet connection maybe?... only kidding :) When you do it by phone you just get the 'electronic woman voice' but I'm thinking each time I phone that the woman will suddenly get cut off and a very butch agressive 'customer service representative' will come on line to give me the 3rd degree about why I am registering again ... at which time I will attempt to run Linux on my box. BTW, it is a legit copy of XP I own (or more correctly own the right to use the software) |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 345360 | 2005-04-15 11:24:00 | I have reactivated windows so many times, that my code no longer works, and I have to ring up MS and speak to a person to get new code to activate it. Trevor:) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 345361 | 2005-04-15 22:21:00 | When you do it by phone you just get the 'electronic woman voice' but I'm thinking each time I phone that the woman will suddenly get cut off and a very butch agressive 'customer service representative' will come on line to give me the 3rd degree about why I am registering again ... at which time I will attempt to run Linux on my box. nah, the CS guys don't do that - they just ask why and then give it to you. They know its an annoying stupid idea of MS's. (And didn't prevent piracy anyway) |
pctek (84) | ||
| 345362 | 2005-04-15 22:23:00 | It kind of reminds me of those games ages ago with the copy protection where you'd start playing and then this box would pop up asking for the 2nd word on page 10, paragraph 3, line 5. | pctek (84) | ||
| 345363 | 2005-04-15 22:45:00 | It kind of reminds me of those games ages ago with the copy protection where you'd start playing and then this box would pop up asking for the 2nd word on page 10, paragraph 3, line 5. Seriously ?? Lol that must have been frustrating, especially if ya sister had thrown the book in the fire or the dog had mangled it in some other way. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 345364 | 2005-04-15 23:44:00 | as far as the copy protection on games go.....They used to have brown text on black background so you couldn't photocopy the booklet,and one I had came with a wheel,you had to spin 2 of the 3 wheels to mach up the nominated colour,with a page number with a letter from a specific word on a specific page of the manual. It would ask something like matchup the 3rd letter of the 86 word on page 48 of the manual.....drove me insane,counting out 86 words that were as close to invisible as you can get,then playing with their stupid wheel. In much the same way as the hassels caused by copy protection nowadays it was far easier to use a pirated copy with all that junk removed,The only ones who suffered were the legit users. As to MS activation, its no drama, The most recent one I did was install XP on an Acer with no recovery CD, I entered in the key off the sticker on the box,went online and tried to activate it.No dice,Recieved a msg that the key I used was in no way designed to work on that version of XP (the difference being that it was an Acer key) anyhow, I rang,went through the automated proccess, No dice, Said I cant use that key. Talked to the operator, they just game me the numbers required to activate it. Now thats not as simple just installing and thats the job done,but at least its a work around for lost recovery cd's, I cant do that with all these comps I have that have W2000 keys on them,they simply refuse to work on any version of w2k that I have.... |
Metla (12) | ||
| 345365 | 2005-04-16 02:26:00 | Yes, apparently lots of peoples fathers spent a fair bit of time at the office photocopy machine. Never heard of the brown/black ones. Seen the wheel type. Yep its still a pain. Had a lady who couldn't run Sims2 cause her DVD wouldn't read safedisc3 copy protection. Her NEW Dvd! |
pctek (84) | ||
| 345366 | 2005-04-16 03:59:00 | It kind of reminds me of those games ages ago with the copy protection where you'd start playing and then this box would pop up asking for the 2nd word on page 10, paragraph 3, line 5. Oh that's right, I remember having to count paragraphs and lines in the darn books for codes to install a couple of old DOS games - I think they were Mathblaster and Spell It 3? Thought at the time it was weird having to do that. :p |
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