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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 at 9:36 am
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Posted by David J. (19 messages posted)

A little follow up here before anyone goes through a lot of trouble replying. I got a toll free number for South America, I think its Argentina and I was able to get a new activation code. The service rep. told me that i have to call and get a new activation code whenever I reinstall windows XP in the future. I wasted several hundred dollars the first time I activated it.

On Monday, March 28, 2005 at 10:01 pm, David J. wrote:
>I have an incredible annoyance here, maybe you can help me. I recently built a computer
>for a friend and installed a new copy of Win XP home ed on it. I initially used the
>onboard sound chip but changed to a 5.1 sound card and installed new drivers. When
>i tried to install these drivers the sound stopped working and nothing I did could
>get it to come back up. I even tried reinstalling the onboard chip and that wouldnt
>work either I tried restoring win XP to an earlier period that didnt work.
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>well, I had to format the drive and reinstall Win xp., Guess what, the activation
>code isnt working anymore, it wont accept it. When i did the first install I had
>to call them on the phone to get the activation code, I couldnt activate via the
>net. I wrote down the code I got and then typed it in in case I had to reinstall.
>well, i reinstalled and now when I try the activation code its not working. I tried
>activating by internet but its telling me that the product key is already activated
>I have to get new one. I dont understand why it doesnt accept the activation code
>they originally gave me. I cannot call them again because the first call cost me
>a lot , it was a machine that answered and it kept asking me questions and took a
>very long time to finish. I am not going to pay for a new one, I just bought this
>software, I do not live in the US and these overseas calls to Microsoft cost me more
>than i paid for the software. I would appreciate any advice on how to get around
>this problem.
>
>I wish someone would give us an alternative to MS. Intel has AMD, who does MS have?
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Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Berner Junge: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 4:08 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (triplate: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 4:52 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Crash Override: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 10:23 am)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Matthew D. Healy: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 12:57 pm)

re: If we make the question instead, "How to lessen the impact of activation interference?" (Kiwi: Sat, Feb 5, 2005, 1:38 pm)

re: If we make the question instead, "How to lessen the impact of activation interference?" (Crash Override: Sun, Feb 6, 2005, 6:42 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (David J.: Mon, Mar 28, 2005, 10:01 pm)

re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (David J.: Tue, Mar 29, 2005, 9:36 am)

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