I have 3 big question.. can someone help me.

[Josh]

Ok. well I have three questions Consirning Microsoft.
I have had Windows Xp Professional actativated for about
4-5 months now. But today when I go to start up my
computer, a popup box comes up saying I must actativate
this copy of windows before I can use it again, do you
wish to actativate it now? I clicked yes. Then the
product actativation window comes up and says that this
copy of windows is already actativated. So i pressed Ok
again. Then mu computer goes back to the welcome screen,
and the same thing happens again? How can I solve this
problem.

another problem I have is with my other computer that has
Windows Xp Home on it, I have just installed it about 7-
10 Days ago, its on a fairly old computer, and about 2
days ago I go to turn it on and a Blue screen comes up
saying something like My Bios isnt ACPI Complient, and to
reboot my computer, so I rebooted it and went into bios
and liiked in the power management section and there is
no ACPI thing there. So i reboot my computer again and I
boot it up into safe mode, same thing.. doesnt work. Can
you also please help me with this?

Also, this is not really a support question but I have
heard somewhere that if you have like a MSDN
subscription, you can get Windows Server 2003 for free?
Is this true? If so how can I sign up for a MSDN
subscription?

Thankyou for all your help.
Have a great Day.

Can you please email me back @ (e-mail address removed)

 

[Jay]

Anyone know what to do?

 

[Rob Schneider]

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms

Ok. well I have three questions Consirning Microsoft.
I have had Windows Xp Professional actativated for about
4-5 months now. But today when I go to start up my
computer, a popup box comes up saying I must actativate
this copy of windows before I can use it again, do you
wish to actativate it now? I clicked yes. Then the
product actativation window comes up and says that this
copy of windows is already actativated. So i pressed Ok
again. Then mu computer goes back to the welcome screen,
and the same thing happens again? How can I solve this
problem.

Call Microsoft. Phone numbers relevant to your country in the paper
work associated with your copy of Windows XP, or
http://www.microsoft/com/support

another problem I have is with my other computer that has
Windows Xp Home on it, I have just installed it about 7-
10 Days ago, its on a fairly old computer, and about 2
days ago I go to turn it on and a Blue screen comes up
saying something like My Bios isnt ACPI Complient, and to
reboot my computer, so I rebooted it and went into bios
and liiked in the power management section and there is
no ACPI thing there. So i reboot my computer again and I
boot it up into safe mode, same thing.. doesnt work. Can
you also please help me with this?

Don't know. If you bought this machine with XP on it, contact the vendor.

Also, this is not really a support question but I have
heard somewhere that if you have like a MSDN
subscription, you can get Windows Server 2003 for free?
Is this true? If so how can I sign up for a MSDN
subscription?

Yes. Although the subscription is not free. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/subscribe/default.asp for the
various subscriptions and prices. Windows Server 2003 comes on
Universal, Enterprise, Professional and Operating System subscriptions.
Costs in USA are $2800, $2200, $1200, adn $700 respectfully.

 

[David Robbins]

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms





Call Microsoft. Phone numbers relevant to your country in the paper
work associated with your copy of Windows XP, or
http://www.microsoft/com/support


Don't know. If you bought this machine with XP on it, contact the vendor.


Yes. Although the subscription is not free. See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/subscribe/default.asp for the
various subscriptions and prices. Windows Server 2003 comes on
Universal, Enterprise, Professional and Operating System subscriptions.
Costs in USA are $2800, $2200, $1200, adn $700 respectfully.

you should also note there are other limitations on what you can use the
server os's and other software from msdn for. servers from msdn may also
contain built in limitations that cause them to expire after a given time or
limit the number of connections. i can't spot the wording right now but i
seem to remember some of them would only run for 90 days and some may have
the same 10 connection limit as the pro operating system version. remember
msdn is a developer service, not a way to get whole bunches of software
cheap.

 

[Spinner]

I recently had a similier problem.
My XP Media Center Edition suddenly started giving me a popup that it hat to
be activated in the next 6 days.
Absolutly NOTHING had changed hardware wise. When I tried to re-activate it,
it said it was already activated.
To make a long story short, I had a trojan on my computer that was screwing
with the registry.
I don't remember the name of the file, it was "net something or other .exe"
and it was running at startup.
It came from Outwar.com and would try to load one of thier pages then
install something called
"the outwar toolbar". After booting to safemode and killing the file, I was
able to re-activate Windows
again (even though it said it was already activated) and stop the popup.