re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 7:07 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rich Kurtz (12246 messages posted) One way to fix this is to take it back to the store that fixed it and make them give you a legitimate copy of XP with a correct product key. The problem with doing that is the CD WILL NOT have all the device drivers the Lenova needs, so you'll have to go to their web site and download and install them. If you order the restore CDs from Lenova as Steve suggested, it will come with the device drivers you need and make the install process a whole lot simpler. The disadvantage to doing this is you'll get all the crapware vendors foist off on their customers. It really doesn't care what hard drive you have in the computer. Written in response to: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Sunday, September 21, 2008 at 8:53 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 8:53 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Steve: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:28 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (geek9pm: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 5:00 pm) re: Comment about WinXP OEM CD (Kiwi: Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 8:11 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Rich Kurtz: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 7:07 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Chuck: Sun, Sep 21, 2008, 9:33 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (appleoddity: Mon, Sep 22, 2008, 11:43 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Crash Override: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 6:37 am) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 9:27 pm) re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?' (Evan: Tue, Sep 23, 2008, 10:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum