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UnseenWriter
My Dad's coworker has asked me to help with his PC. He bought it from
Tiny a couple of months before they went bust, and now it's saying his
Windows is not genuine and he needs to pay 92 quid to make it genuine.
It has a microsoft sticker of authenticity on the case for XP Home
(which is what it's running) and he's not computer-savvy enough to
have reinstalled the OS without benefit of a restore CD, which he says
he never had. Having worked on the helpdesk for Tiny for a while a few
years back I wouldn't be exactly surprised if this problem has been
caused by something stupid Tiny did, but he *has* got the authenticity
sticker, and frankly the machine isn't worth 92 quid, so he'll probably
bin it if I can't fix it.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Aside from pointing and laughing
about the fact he bought a Tiny in the first place, that is.
Tiny a couple of months before they went bust, and now it's saying his
Windows is not genuine and he needs to pay 92 quid to make it genuine.
It has a microsoft sticker of authenticity on the case for XP Home
(which is what it's running) and he's not computer-savvy enough to
have reinstalled the OS without benefit of a restore CD, which he says
he never had. Having worked on the helpdesk for Tiny for a while a few
years back I wouldn't be exactly surprised if this problem has been
caused by something stupid Tiny did, but he *has* got the authenticity
sticker, and frankly the machine isn't worth 92 quid, so he'll probably
bin it if I can't fix it.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Aside from pointing and laughing
about the fact he bought a Tiny in the first place, that is.