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I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I go to
the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How can I do
this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
 
How can I tell if my copy of Windows is genuine?
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/downloads/WhyValidate.aspx

Windows Genuine Advantage – Diagnostic Site
http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/diag/

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
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| I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I go to
| the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How can I do
| this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
 
Tallrich said:
I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I
go to the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How
can I do this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
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Because MS is trying to condition you to do, believe, and conform to
anything that they want.

MPA & WGA have nothing to do with piracy. It is all about control.

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Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
Tallrich said:
I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I go to
the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How can I do
this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
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it should be right were you found it in update, without it it won't let
you pick up non critical updates

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Marko Jotic
"Common sense is anything but common".
From the notebooks of Lazarus Long. Robert A. Heinlein.
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Tallrich said:
I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I go to
the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How can I do
this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
Click to expand...

I guess the unannounced third (and certainly not last) installment of
Windows (MS) considering their legitimately paying customers thieves is
hitting; it is called licking the MS scrotum clean til they are happy
validation.

Sit, lay down and beg to get your legitimate version of Windows activated
and running, while the real thieves laugh their asses off!



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Al remarked:
I guess the unannounced third (and certainly not last) installment of
Windows (MS) considering their legitimately paying customers thieves is
hitting; it is called licking the MS scrotum clean til they are happy
validation.

Sit, lay down and beg to get your legitimate version of Windows activated
and running, while the real thieves laugh their asses off!
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*ROFL*

BTW - Is a MS Windows version with Segoe UI installed a legitimate one?
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segoe>
 
I know all that already. I have now found out that I have an invalid product
key. I need to know how to change it for the correct one
 
Tallrich said:
I know all that already. I have now found out that I have an invalid product
key. I need to know how to change it for the correct one
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How did you find that out?

A
 
If you are getting the following error message when attempting to update:

Error Message: The Product Key Used to Install Windows Is Invalid
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326904&Product=winxp

You'll have to purchase a new "Full Version" of Windows XP Professional
and perform a "Repair Install" using the new Windows XP Pro CD and Product Key
that comes with it. (You cannot simply change the Product Key)

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm


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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I know all that already. I have now found out that I have an invalid product
| key. I need to know how to change it for the correct one
 
I have a copy of windows purchased by me. It has been activated. If I go
to the Microsoft update site, I am told I need to validate it. How can I
do this? Why do I need to validate as well as activate?
Click to expand...

So that Microsoft can use its extortion tactics against you.

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When Microsoft stops treating its customers as thieves, I might consider
running Windoze again. Of course, I wouldn't allow it to access the
Internet. Windoze has no place on the Internet.

View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://linclips.crocusplains.com/index.php
 
Carey said:
If you are getting the following error message when attempting to
update:

Error Message: The Product Key Used to Install Windows Is Invalid
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326904&Product=winxp

You'll have to purchase a new "Full Version" of Windows XP
Professional
and perform a "Repair Install" using the new Windows XP Pro CD and
Product Key that comes with it. (You cannot simply change the
Product Key)

How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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LOL! Carey is selling the "Full Version" again!

Would someone please explain to this schmuck, that he doesn't get a
commission check for every "Full Version" he cons people into buying!

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
Tallrich said:
Well Microsoft is certainly not trying to control what I do.
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No? Then why are you jumping through the MicroHoops of Activation and
Validation?

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
Tallrich said:
Don't you think that validation is about piracy and theft?
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Of course not. The piracy rate was higher in 1994, before there was a
PC in almost every home, than it was the year before MS introduced
Activation to the masses. Since then, the piracy rate has stopped
declining.

MS would rather censor pro-democracy speech for the Chinese commies,
than stand up to them for rampant piracy there! MS has threatened to
stop selling their software in South Korea over anti-trust litigation,
but won't do the same to China over it doing little or nothing to stop
piracy.

Again, Piracy has absolutely NOTHING to do with it. It is all about
control.

--
Peace!
Kurt Kirsch
Self-anointed Moderator
http://microscum.com
"It'll soon shake your Windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'."
 
: Carey Frisch [MVP] wrote:
:
: > If you are getting the following error message when attempting to
: > update:
: >
: > Error Message: The Product Key Used to Install Windows Is Invalid
: >
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;326904&Product=winxp
: >
: > You'll have to purchase a new "Full Version" of Windows XP
: > Professional
: > and perform a "Repair Install" using the new Windows XP Pro CD and
: > Product Key that comes with it. (You cannot simply change the
: > Product Key)
: >
: > How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
: > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
: >
:
: LOL! Carey is selling the "Full Version" again!
:
: Would someone please explain to this schmuck, that he doesn't get a
: commission check for every "Full Version" he cons people into buying!
:
: --
: Peace!
: Kurt Kirsch
: Self-anointed Moderator
: http://microscum.com
: "It'll soon shake your Windows
: And rattle your walls
: For the times they are a-changin'."
:

I tried to, then he looked like he was about to cream his jeans when I said
Full Version.

That's probably why he says it.

- Winux P
 
kurttrail said:
It is all about control.
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Which is why the newsgroup is purged of "undesirable" posts.

As of 9:14 last night (my last visible post on this server), I've
apparently been globally killfiled

I am truly amazed.

:)

rl
 
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