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If you're going to pirate windoze you might as well do it properly and download a copy that doesn't need activation. Incidently, pirating software is not theft. The fact that you have it doesn't deprive anybody else of it. On 10/24/07, Richard Brown <rich@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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! > -- > Kind regards > Rich > http://www.cregy.co.uk > Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. > Romans 12 v 1 > > -- > 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 > -- 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