Lost XP COA but have CD What to do

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echo

Help,
I've lost my Certificate of Authenticity for my Windows XP Home edition but
still have the original disk. Is there any way to get a replacement
certificate ?

This is an OEM version and proof of purchase is going to be impossible.

Thanks for any help.
 
D

Daave

echo said:
Help,
I've lost my Certificate of Authenticity for my Windows XP Home
edition but still have the original disk. Is there any way to get a
replacement certificate ?

This is an OEM version and proof of purchase is going to be
impossible.
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Is it a generic OEM or branded OEM?

OEM COAs are normally affixed to the computer cases. If yours isn't, try

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

At least you'll be able to get the Product Key. As long as you don't
have a royalty OEM like Dell (which uses a different key for the
original install), you should be fine.

Suggestion: write it down and tape to your PC case!
 
B

Bruce Chambers

echo said:
Help,
I've lost my Certificate of Authenticity for my Windows XP Home edition but
still have the original disk. Is there any way to get a replacement
certificate ?

This is an OEM version and proof of purchase is going to be impossible.

Thanks for any help.
Click to expand...


The Windows 25-character Product Key (required to perform the
installation) is not on the installation CD in any way, shape, or form.
It is stored on the CD packaging on a bright orange sticker that says
"Do not lose this number." If it was an OEM (factory installed)
license, it's stored on a label that the PC manufacturer affixed to the
exterior of the PC case, or on the bottom of a laptop.

To recover a lost Product Key:

If it was a retail license and you have proof of purchase:

How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

If it was an OEM license, you should contact the computer's
manufacturer; although very few manufacturers/vendors keep records of
the Product Keys they've sold, it's worth a try before you have to buy a
new license.


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Bruce Chambers

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G

Gazwad

Daave <[email protected]>, the twittering-hobo and
supple cornholer who likes indelicate tugging with capuchin monkeys, and
whose partner is a sleaze-slut with shaven sagging bacon cones, wrote in
Is it a generic OEM or branded OEM?

OEM COAs are normally affixed to the computer cases. If yours isn't, try

Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder.shtml

At least you'll be able to get the Product Key. As long as you don't
have a royalty OEM like Dell (which uses a different key for the
original install), you should be fine.
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If he has a dell disk then he wont need the ****ing key, you dumb ****.

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
F

FeMaster

Daave said:
As long as you don't
have a royalty OEM like Dell (which uses a different key for the
original install), you should be fine.
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If he has a Dell OEM install CD, he won't even need a CD key. Just install
it. It never asks for a key...
 
D

Daave

FeMaster said:
If he has a Dell OEM install CD, he won't even need a CD key. Just
install it. It never asks for a key...
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I forgot he had the disk. (For some reason, I was thinking he only had
access to a generic OEM disk, but after re-reading the post, he
definitely has the original disk!)

Are *all* Dell OEM installation disks this way? I know mine is.
 
E

echo

I forgot to mention I have the key written down just don't have the COA
anymore.

So is it possible to get the COA if I have the original disk and the key.
 
G

Gazwad

echo <[email protected]>, the babbling-wretch and vegetarian ring raider who
likes debilitating lewd infusions with crocodiles, and whose partner is
a love-peddler with a puffy meat wallet, wrote in
I forgot to mention I have the key written down just don't have the COA
anymore.

So is it possible to get the COA if I have the original disk and the key.
Click to expand...

No, if you had it and lost it then it's stiff shit. Why would you need it
anyway?
For personal use you'll never need it and you can't legally sell it on.
If you plan to sell the computer and want a coa sticker on it then fake one.


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For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
D

Daave

replies inline
I forgot to mention I have the key written down just don't have the
COA anymore.
Click to expand...

As long as the key is the same one that had been on the COA, you should
be fine; the key is all that matters. Then again, if it's a retail
license that you wish to sell, the COA would be nice for the next owner
to have. Without it, he or she would need to trust that your XP is
legitimate. Personally, I wouldn't buy such a system.
So is it possible to get the COA if I have the original disk and the
key.
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You would need to contact the OEM that sold it to you. Somehow, I doubt
it.

Why didn't they affix the COA to your PC case where it belongs? What
make is your PC?
 
F

FeMaster

As far as I know, yes. I can't say for sure if this is the same for Vista
installs, but I know ALL Win XP CDs are this way. I guess they figure that
they don't need to make people enter a CD key since the CDs are locked to a
given model of PC anyway. They will only install on the PC that they came
with, or a similar model, but certainly only on a DELL machine...
 
G

Gazwad

H <[email protected]>, the deviant-hobo and pierced turd fisher
who likes macabre zipper sex with frogs, and whose partner is a fly-girl
with decrepit buffalo gums, wrote in
Go to www.winkeyfinder.com and you will find the necessary software to
reveal your key.
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Helmet.


--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
X

Xandros

echo has the key. What he or she desires is a piece of paper called the
Certificate of Authenticity.
 
F

Fjoka

I don't have an COA onmy other comp, what to do?

Gazwad said:
Daave <[email protected]>, the twittering-hobo and
supple cornholer who likes indelicate tugging with capuchin monkeys, and
whose partner is a sleaze-slut with shaven sagging bacon cones, wrote in


If he has a dell disk then he wont need the ****ing key, you dumb ****.

--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
Click to expand...
 
G

Gazwad

Fjoka <[email protected]>, the balding-old-man and timid folle who
likes deranged pomegranate pounding with eels, and whose partner is a
village-bicycle with a rough flesh tuxedo, wrote in
I don't have an COA onmy other comp, what to do?
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Download some porn.


--
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down
in words with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived
it. There is, however, a class of fancies of exquisite delicacy which
are not thoughts, and to which as yet I have found it absolutely
impossible to adapt to language. These fancies arise in the soul, alas
how rarely. Only at epochs of most intense tranquillity, when the
bodily and mental health are in perfection. And at those weird points
of time, where the confines of the waking world blend with the world of
dreams. And so I captured this fancy, where all that we see, or seem,
is but a dream within a dream.
 
H

H

If that is ALL he wants then he should have fixed it to the machine, and, if
all he has to worry about is a missing COA then he IS lucky.
 

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