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Richard Brown wrote: > Hi All > > I'm a thief and a crook and you need to arrest me now! That's how > Microsoft reads this bloody silly situation. > > Please forgive my swearing but I have just spent a fairly stupid day > and a half trying to fix a stupid stupid piece of software called XP > only to discover when I call MS that I am a thief and a crook. > > It all comes down to the fact that xp licences are tied to the disk > you use to install them with. My mates hard drive went and so he says, > "Can you help?" "Yes no worries" - pull out old hard drive wack in > new. "Have you got your xp disk?" I ask. "No I haven't", he says. > "Don't worry I have a copy", I innocently reply. > > Basically the xp licence refers to the xp disk and vice versa and so > when I went to validate it wouldn't let me. It kept saying this is not > validated, do you want to validate. Click yes and then it would say > this product is already validated. Endless loop of mindless nothing. > > Doom to Microsoft for the ultimate in rubbish. I buy a licence but I > can't use it on another hard drive in the same computer because they > are a bunch of prats. > > And after all this the said mate won't install Linux. He would rather > go and buy another ms product! > I'll just stick to using Linux then eh Paul -- Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org Events 25th October 2007 - Meeting Paignton 28th October - Penzance Computers meet 11th November. Penzance Computers meet Lostwithel meeting part 2, - watch this space. details on lug site, www.dcglug.org.uk under meetings. visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html