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Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
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Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Friday, March 29, 2002 at 4:05 pm
Posted by Jeff
(1 messages posted)
I recently upped to Win XP from 98SE. I sold the computer after re-installing 98SE.
I installed my Win XP on my wife's laptop, which at the time did not have a pc card
adapter to hook to our cable modem. I didn't activate XP at this time, not wanting
to waste time on the horribly slow dial-up we have. Well, you guessed it- I forgot
to activate XP and now it won't even let me into the machine. Is there any way to
re-install OR un-install XP and start over?. I would just as soon keep 98SE on the
laptop, anyway. Thanks in advance for helping!
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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Friday, March 29, 2002 at 4:19 pm
Posted by will
(14 messages posted)
activation on a dial up is generally in the range of 2 to 3 minutes top
On Friday, March 29, 2002 at 4:05 pm, Jeff wrote:
>I recently upped to Win XP from 98SE. I sold the computer after re-installing 98SE.
>I installed my Win XP on my wife's laptop, which at the time did not have a pc card
>adapter to hook to our cable modem. I didn't activate XP at this time, not wanting
>to waste time on the horribly slow dial-up we have. Well, you guessed it- I forgot
>to activate XP and now it won't even let me into the machine. Is there any way to
>re-install OR un-install XP and start over?. I would just as soon keep 98SE on the
>laptop, anyway. Thanks in advance for helping!
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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Friday, March 29, 2002 at 5:32 pm
Posted by secret asIAN man
(2 messages posted)
Your quickest solution would probably be to call in and activate the product.
On Friday, March 29, 2002 at 4:05 pm, Jeff wrote:
>I recently upped to Win XP from 98SE. I sold the computer after re-installing 98SE.
>I installed my Win XP on my wife's laptop, which at the time did not have a pc card
>adapter to hook to our cable modem. I didn't activate XP at this time, not wanting
>to waste time on the horribly slow dial-up we have. Well, you guessed it- I forgot
>to activate XP and now it won't even let me into the machine. Is there any way to
>re-install OR un-install XP and start over?. I would just as soon keep 98SE on the
>laptop, anyway. Thanks in advance for helping!
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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Friday, March 29, 2002 at 5:33 pm
Posted by bob
(98 messages posted)
all you have to do is call microsoft & as long as it a legal copy, just explain what
you did and they (will) activate you.
On Friday, March 29, 2002 at 4:05 pm, Jeff wrote:
>I recently upped to Win XP from 98SE. I sold the computer after re-installing 98SE.
>I installed my Win XP on my wife's laptop, which at the time did not have a pc card
>adapter to hook to our cable modem. I didn't activate XP at this time, not wanting
>to waste time on the horribly slow dial-up we have. Well, you guessed it- I forgot
>to activate XP and now it won't even let me into the machine. Is there any way to
>re-install OR un-install XP and start over?. I would just as soon keep 98SE on the
>laptop, anyway. Thanks in advance for helping!
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re: Question about 'How do I skip the Product Activation in Windows XP?'
Thursday, October 6, 2005 at 4:43 pm
Posted by kevin Xiong
(1 messages posted)
Thursday, October 6th, 2005, my computer has virus and I re-install my windows XP.
I could find the case that has it's produt key. How do I find it? Where can I
get one? How do I install without one?
Thanks
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