HELP ME!!

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As usual Microshit have stuffed up.. I have a Windows XP Pro OEM and recently
upgraded to X64. Only to find no drivers... no games(almost).. and a big
waste of time and money. I then re-installed my original Windows XP Pro Oem
only to find Microshit has removed my old key so I can't activate.. I try to
use their support site to explain to them what has happened and that I am a
paying customer. An annoyed one at that.. If anyone has had this issue and OR
knows what to do please help me!!
 
Gothic said:
As usual Microshit have stuffed up.. I have a Windows XP Pro OEM and recently
upgraded to X64. Only to find no drivers... no games(almost).. and a big
waste of time and money. I then re-installed my original Windows XP Pro Oem
only to find Microshit has removed my old key so I can't activate.. I try to
use their support site to explain to them what has happened and that I am a
paying customer. An annoyed one at that.. If anyone has had this issue and OR
knows what to do please help me!!
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Call the Activation Center. Microsoft is paying for the call.
This is part of normal business associated with Windows Product
Activation. You are entitled to re-install your system as many
times as you wish.
 
Try to activate, and this time READ the screen carefully.
You will be given a phone number to call if the web activation fails.
As long as you have a legit copy you will have no issues.

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Manny Borges
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MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
 
Manny said:
Try to activate, and this time READ the screen carefully.
You will be given a phone number to call if the web activation fails.
As long as you have a legit copy you will have no issues.
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Except having to waste time calling Microsoft to prove that one is not
guilty of piracy. Assuming paying customers to be thieves until they
prove otherwise is an *issue* and a big one. Did it every occur to you
Microsyphocants and to Microsoft itself that people might want to *use*
their computers instead of wasting time playing the MS WGA/N and WPA game?

If someone does have a pirated copy, they don't have to jump through the
WPA loops or the WGA loops and still get all the critical updates with
AU. This useless activity is only open to paying customers.

Alias
 
GHalleck said:
Call the Activation Center. Microsoft is paying for the call.
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Only in some countries. Here, in Spain, the customer has to pay for the
call to prove that he or she isn't a thief. In Spain, MS makes money on
*every* call.
This is part of normal business associated with Windows Product
Activation.
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No, it's a waste of time that only affects paying customers while the
pirates just laugh their a$$ off.
You are entitled to re-install your system as many
times as you wish.
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And then jump through the WPA and WGA hoops before you can *use* your
system.

Alias
 
That was an unproductive comment.
It had nothing to do with the posters current issue (the technical one, not
the stupidity one)

If you don't like MS products, feel free to use something else.

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
 
Manny said:
That was an unproductive comment.
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NO, WGA and WPA are unproductive programs. If enough people complain,
perhaps MS will pay attention.
It had nothing to do with the posters current issue (the technical one, not
the stupidity one)
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Are you calling me stupid?
If you don't like MS products, feel free to use something else.
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I see, no user feedback at the My Way or the Highway company you shill
for, eh?

Alias
 
Gothic said:
As usual Microshit have stuffed up.. I have a Windows XP Pro OEM and recently
upgraded to X64. Only to find no drivers... no games(almost).. and a big
waste of time and money.
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How is it Microsoft's fault that *you* went off half-cocked and tried
to change operating systems without first determining whether or not
your system's component's manufacturers had provided 64-Bit drivers, or
that the games you want to play were WinXPx64-compatible. Don' blame
Microsoft because you failed to do the most basic sort of product
research before making such a purchase.


I then re-installed my original Windows XP Pro Oem
only to find Microshit has removed my old key so I can't activate..
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Not exactly. Some time ago, Microsoft disabled the CDs/Product Keys
from most major OEMs such as Dell from activating via the Internet.
(This was in response to the large number of the branded OEM CDs being
illegally (without the computer) resold via eBay, computer fairs, etc.)

I try to
use their support site to explain to them what has happened and that I am a
paying customer. An annoyed one at that.. If anyone has had this issue and OR
knows what to do please help me!!
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You will most likely have to activate via telephone, though. A free, 5
minute phone call should clear this up.


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