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yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp home
again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me to
activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never activated
it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said to
contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want this
to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im activated.
there must be some screwy stuff goin on.
 
The Dell Windows XP reinstallation CD can only be used and
activated on the original Dell PC it came with. It will not
activate on a different PC. You'll have to go out and purchase
a conventional "Full Version" of Windows XP and perform a
"Repair Install".

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

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

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| yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp home
| again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
| activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me to
| activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
| that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
| getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
| online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never activated
| it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
| cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said to
| contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
| which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want this
| to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im activated.
| there must be some screwy stuff goin on.
 
The Dell Windows XP reinstallation CD and license can only be
used and activated on the original Dell PC it came with. It will
not activate on a different PC. You'll have to go out and purchase
a conventional "Full Version" of Windows XP and perform a
"Repair Install".

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

[Courtesy of MS-MVP Michael Stevens]

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect Your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/default.aspx

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

:

| yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp home
| again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
| activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me to
| activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
| that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
| getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
| online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never activated
| it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
| cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said to
| contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
| which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want this
| to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im activated.
| there must be some screwy stuff goin on.
 
yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp home
again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me to
activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never activated
it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said to
contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want this
to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im activated.
there must be some screwy stuff goin on.
I
The local shop should of provide you with the xp oem disk, Manual and
a boot disk sealed. No hardware needed since they were building your
system.

Greg
 
I
The local shop should of provide you with the xp oem disk, Manual and
a boot disk sealed. No hardware needed since they were building your
system.

Greg

Just to correct part of my post, It can be unsealed if the key is
affix to the machine and you get the c.o.a , Cd, boot disk and manual

Greg R
 
Cross-post when necessary, but never multi-post. Cross-posting is when you
include two or more groups in the "Newsgroups:" section. In this scenario
the message and all responses are seen in all groups that the message was
cross-posted to. In other words any replies will automatically propagate to
the other newsgroup posts.

Multi-posting is when you post the same message to two or more groups
individually. In this scenario the message is seen in the groups it is
posted to, but the responses are only seen attached to the message (unless
you cross-post the reply) in which the response was made. So those that
frequent these groups then need to deal with or re-read the posts. It may
seem like a small thing to keep track of. But some of us actively traverse
50 or more groups. The poster also then must search out all of the posts to
see if there was a response.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

in message | yeah, i got a question. i just had to reformat and reinstall windows xp
home
| again, cuz there was crashing probs and the tech guy who built my computer
| activated windows for me, but in the last few days it has been asking me
to
| activate and when i hit yes it says its already activated. well, with all
| that i decided to reformat and reinstall windows again. and i was jus now
| getting the last 4 high prority updates and upon reboot and loggin back
| online it poped up and said windows was activated already. i never
activated
| it, what the heck is goin on here? i cant get mocrosoft to help me at all.
| cuz this is a os copy from my now defunct and fried dell system. they said
to
| contact them. well, i dont have a dell now. this was built at a local shop
| which we used my os disk from the dell. someone please help. i dont want
this
| to do the asking to activate again at 7 days from o and it says im
activated.
| there must be some screwy stuff goin on.
 
In
Dave Patrick said:
Cross-post when necessary, but never multi-post.
....

Multi-posting is when you post the same message to two or more
groups
individually. In this scenario the message is seen in the
groups it is
posted to, but the responses are only seen attached to the
message
(unless you cross-post the reply) in which the response was
made. So
those that frequent these groups then need to deal with or
re-read
the posts. It may seem like a small thing to keep track of. But
some
of us actively traverse 50 or more groups. The poster also then
must
search out all of the posts to see if there was a response.


Even worse, multi-posting fragments the thread, so someone
reading the thread in one group may not see messages posted in
another, and is unable to comment on it, for example, to correct
an erroneous answer.
 
In


Even worse, multi-posting fragments the thread, so someone
reading the thread in one group may not see messages posted in
another, and is unable to comment on it, for example, to correct
an erroneous answer.

Some news reader limit how many groups you can reply to. (I think is
8).

Grc groups are not propagated to the internet.


Greg R
 
In
Greg R said:
Some news reader limit how many groups you can reply to. (I
think is
8).


And that's fine. Cross-posting is OK if it's limited to a few
related groups, but excessive crossposting is always
inappropriate. I can't conceive of a situation in which
cross-posting to as many as eight groups would be appropriate.
 

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