Obtain XP professional License?

[Gordon]

O.K. now let me make myself very clear:
I have here in my possession a Winxp Pro disk from an earlier computer
purchase and that copy is installed and being used every day on another
computer here at my home. I used that same disk to install WinXP pro in a
virtual machine on a recently purchased laptop that I take abroad
everyday in order to test an app that will not run in Vista x64. (Vista is
the Operating system the new laptop was loaded with)
The app in question does run in the virtual machine under the Winxp pro
x32 environment, and I now would like to PURCHASE A LEGITIMATE KEY.. for
the MS XP Pro

And as everyone has told you - you can't purchase ONE key on it's own. Go to
NewEgg or Amazon and purchase a copy of XP. With a Key.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Use the same key as you have used on another computer at home. It
should accept it and you may have to activate it by telephone. It
should work but if it doesn't, nothing lost from your part. Nothing
ventured, nothing lost. Go ahead and have fun.

O.K. now let me make myself very clear:
I have here in my possession a Winxp Pro disk from an earlier computer
purchase and that copy is installed and being used every day on
another computer here at my home. I used that same disk to install
WinXP pro in a virtual machine on a recently purchased laptop that I
take abroad everyday in order to test an app that will not run in
Vista x64. (Vista is the Operating system the new laptop was loaded with)
The app in question does run in the virtual machine under the Winxp
pro x32 environment, and I now would like to PURCHASE A LEGITIMATE
KEY.. for the MS XP Pro

To you Mr Blake.. you just tried and convicted me before you had all
the facts... cheers

Lee

 

[Peter Foldes]

Long time fraud artist Tibor Horvath is very well lnown in Europe for these types
of schemes. (Paypal: Thorvath82 AT gmail.com)

 

[Gordon]

Long time fraud artist Tibor Horvath is very well lnown in Europe for
these types of schemes. (Paypal: Thorvath82 AT gmail.com)

If he's a fraud and scam artist, why did you bother to munge his email? ;-)

 

[BillW50]

In Gordon typed on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:42:37 +0100:

If he's a fraud and scam artist, why did you bother to munge his
email? ;-)

Interestingly while Google turns up tons of Tibor Horvaths out there. I
can't find any of them known for fraud. Why does Europeans keep this
kind of stuff off of the Internet? On this side of the pond, everybody
and their brother would be writing about this kind of scum bag.

 

[Daave]

And as everyone has told you - you can't purchase ONE key on it's
own. Go to NewEgg or Amazon and purchase a copy of XP. With a Key.

Agreed.

To Lee:

Here's the NewEgg link for XP Pro:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...16515&cm_re=xp_oem_sp3-_-32-116-515-_-Product

If you decide that your "problem app" would run just as well under XP
Home (and I see no reason why it shouldn't), here's the link for XP
Home:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...16511&cm_re=xp_oem_sp3-_-32-116-511-_-Product

(and that way you save $45...)

The only way I know how to purchase a key only (and there might wind up
being a CD after all!) is to fail WGA and "Click Resolve Now to get help
with this problem" (or something like that):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474

But I doubt it would be any cheaper than going the NewEgg route.

OR...

You may just want to post to a Vista newsgroup and mention your specific
problem with this app; perhaps it *can* be run under (64-bit) Vista
after all...

 

[Twayne]

In John John - MVP typed on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:11:11 -0300:

Hard to say... I found the following additional information about this
them. Also I can't find any complaints against them.

SoftwareIQ
Elk Grove, IL
224-265-4660
224-265-4663
Paypal: Thorvath82 AT gmail.com
http://www.empirecellular.com/

Really? If you'll check with Robtex, you'll find the domain name is for
sale: That means they could be gone anytime now. You can't tell a lot
just with Google.

 

[Twayne]

Use the same key as you have used on another computer at home. It
should accept it and you may have to activate it by telephone. It
should work but if it doesn't, nothing lost from your part. Nothing
ventured, nothing lost. Go ahead and have fun.

The "loss" could at worst be the inability to upgrade/activate the home
machine ever again and loss of the same for the second machine XP was
pirated to. And the keycode may end up on the "pirated" list too, never
again to be used. But you're right, that's nothing.
At best, as long as autoupdates are turned off and you don't touch
MS's site, you might be able to keep them running for awhile.

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In Gordon typed on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 06:42:37 +0100:

Interestingly while Google turns up tons of Tibor Horvaths out there.
I can't find any of them known for fraud. Why does Europeans keep this
kind of stuff off of the Internet? On this side of the pond, everybody
and their brother would be writing about this kind of scum bag.

Nearly all of Google's information is collected by bots. If they don't
traverse a site with info about anuthing, there's no data on Google.
Google is also big in the UK too, but I've found their searches are
identical to what I get here. Seems to be the same database the world
over.
Were his domain known, it would be a different story; those are easy
to look up for stats & issues from many sources, maybe even Google, IFF
it isn't completely stealthed and kept closed by refusing all bots.
Which is also easy to do.

 

[BillW50]

In Twayne typed on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:58:41 -0400:

Really? If you'll check with Robtex, you'll find the domain name is
for sale: That means they could be gone anytime now. You can't tell a
lot just with Google.

I would dump the name of empirecellular too if I was in the software
business too. Wouldn't you?

 

[Twayne]

Agreed.

To Lee:

Here's the NewEgg link for XP Pro:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...16515&cm_re=xp_oem_sp3-_-32-116-515-_-Product

If you decide that your "problem app" would run just as well under XP
Home (and I see no reason why it shouldn't), here's the link for XP
Home:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...16511&cm_re=xp_oem_sp3-_-32-116-511-_-Product

(and that way you save $45...)

The only way I know how to purchase a key only (and there might wind
up being a CD after all!) is to fail WGA and "Click Resolve Now to
get help with this problem" (or something like that):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/905474

But I doubt it would be any cheaper than going the NewEgg route.

OR...

You may just want to post to a Vista newsgroup and mention your
specific problem with this app; perhaps it *can* be run under
(64-bit) Vista after all...

Microsoft will quite happily sell you a key; contact them. OTOH, I'd
rather have the extra copy of the disc too, so IMO better to purchase
it. This is a case where EBAY would be OK for a source as long as you
were sure you got the right version of the disk. Be sure it comes with
the COA and keycode and you might save a buck if you know how to judge
sellers.
\HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Gordon]

Microsoft will quite happily sell you a key;

They will? I was under the impression that the only keys they sell are for
Volume Licensing....