Can't activate

[Frances Strong]

I bought xp home update last year and tried to install on
my 859 mhz system. After several tries, when I thought it
had installed but it was too unstable, I gave up and
stored it for later.

Now I have upgraded to 2.6 ghz and so I installed my own
legal copy of xp home, which I haven't shared and haven't
even been able to use. Now Microsoft say my copy has been
activated too many times.

There are no links anywhere on the Microsoft site to get
advice.

What can I DO?????

 

[Glen]

choose to activate by phone and tell the nice person what you did and they
woll give you an activation code.

 

[kurttrail]

I bought xp home update last year and tried to install on
my 859 mhz system. After several tries, when I thought it
had installed but it was too unstable, I gave up and
stored it for later.

Now I have upgraded to 2.6 ghz and so I installed my own
legal copy of xp home, which I haven't shared and haven't
even been able to use. Now Microsoft say my copy has been
activated too many times.

There are no links anywhere on the Microsoft site to get
advice.

What can I DO?????

First, don't believe everything you read from Microsoft.

Just take the choice to do activation by phone.

Copy-protection, in the form of PA, is just a means used by software
copyright owners who are members of the BSA Junta to FUD people into believe
that they have to buy another copy of the copyrighted software. MS
delibertly mis-worded this message to fool you into thinking that YOU have
done something wrong, when in FACT, it is MS that is the SCAMMER!

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Peace!
Kurt
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"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Bob Knowlden]

This assumes that you have a retail upgrade (or full) version.

Use the activation by telephone procedure. It's a toll-free call, at least
in the US.

You may have to explain that you're upgrading the PC. The main thing the MS
rep will want to hear is the number of systems XP will be installed on. The
right answer is one.

The process is a little tedious, but it takes about 5 minutes.

I'm a bit surprised that you had a problem. if you installed XP "last year".
Activation is supposed to reset in 120 days, after which you ought to be
able to do it via the net as if it was a new activation.

Address altered. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

 

[wojo]

1st advice: Activate by phone
2nd advice: Don't listen too much to what Kurttrail has to say on the
subject.

 

[kurttrail]

1st advice: Activate by phone

Of course, you are just regurgitating what others have already said.

2nd advice: Don't listen too much to what Kurttrail has to say on the
subject.

Why? Don't you think the OP has the right to come to his own conclusion
about what I wrote?

Why do you think MS has kept that deceptive wording, if not out of shear
greed?

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"

 

[Hilary Karp]

See this knowledge base article on how to activate XP. There is a phone
number you can call.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307890

 

[Tedd Riggs]

Unless she got a bogus copy of XP Home that has the key published on the
net, there are tons of OEM Dell versions that cannot be activated and a fair
number of regular ones where the person was not so smart and sold the key to
one of the web sites offering keys for various products...

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Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA

 

[Alex Nichol]

I bought xp home update last year and tried to install on
my 859 mhz system. After several tries, when I thought it
had installed but it was too unstable, I gave up and
stored it for later.

Now I have upgraded to 2.6 ghz and so I installed my own
legal copy of xp home, which I haven't shared and haven't
even been able to use. Now Microsoft say my copy has been
activated too many times.

You are now installing on different hardware and the automatic system
sees this as installing on a second machine - instead of on only one.
You can transfer the system, but the auto response can't check on that.
So

Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - Activate Windows
and take the option to Activate by Phone. You will be given a toll free
number to dial, where you explain that it has been removed from another
machine, and read out (and check) a long number, receiving another in
exchange to type in. Maybe up to ten minutes