xp needs activating or something please please help

[Mike]

Hi
Firstly
I hope this is the right newsgroup if not can someone please direct me to
the correct newsgroup.

The problem

I owned a Samsung NC10 netbook it worked perfectly no problems at all. I
didnt use it much so I sold it on ebay.

After the buyer bought it I got the following message from him about a
problem with activating windows I didnt have this problem or was I ever
asked to activate windows so I do not know how to answer his question can
someone please help me.

Heres is he's message.............

Hi Mike. I have received the NC10. Upon powering up I receive a Windows
Product Activation warning that states 'This copy of Windows must be
activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate
Windows now? If I put yes it just gives me a screen with pictures of flowers
on it, if I say no, I get a log on screen which says welcome and Samsung
NC10. If I choose that it just gives me the screen asking if I want to
activate Windows. I am not very computer literate, so don't know what I
should do? Thanks, LT

........

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers Mike

 

[Mike]

Hi Thanks for the reply.

All documentation and cd were included. Unfortunatly the NC10 netbook does
not have a dvd drive. Do you know if it is possible to restore from a sd
card or memory stick. if the information from the cd is copied onto it.

Cheers Mike

 

[John Dulak]

Hi
Firstly
I hope this is the right newsgroup if not can someone please direct me
to the correct newsgroup.

The problem

I owned a Samsung NC10 netbook it worked perfectly no problems at all. I
didnt use it much so I sold it on ebay.

After the buyer bought it I got the following message from him about a
problem with activating windows I didnt have this problem or was I ever
asked to activate windows so I do not know how to answer his question
can someone please help me.

Heres is he's message.............

Hi Mike. I have received the NC10. Upon powering up I receive a Windows
Product Activation warning that states 'This copy of Windows must be
activated with Microsoft before you can log on. Do you want to activate
Windows now? If I put yes it just gives me a screen with pictures of
flowers on it, if I say no, I get a log on screen which says welcome and
Samsung NC10. If I choose that it just gives me the screen asking if I
want to activate Windows. I am not very computer literate, so don't know
what I should do? Thanks, LT

.......

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers Mike

Mike:

Perhaps the person you sold the netbook to does not realize it has to
have a functional internet connection to use the "online" version of
product activation. It may be as simple as telling him to make sure
there is a functional Cat-5 cable plugged into the units NIC.

HTH & GL

John

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[Mike]

Hi. Thanks for your responce

Their is no cd, dvd or any other optical drive on the NC10.

Thats why I was wandering if a memory card would work or if I would need an
external drive.

Cheers Mike

 

[Mike]

Hi John

Thanks for that. I will pass on that information.

I personally didnt have any problem with activation but I alway had a
wireless connection available so perhaps thats why.

Cheers Mike

 

[Daave]

don't think I've ever seen a laptop without a CD or DVD

The NC10 is not considered a laptop. It's considerably smaller and is
called a "Netbook."

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

The NC10 is not considered a laptop. It's considerably smaller and is
called a "Netbook."

It's just a matter of terminology of course--and we all don't use
words in exactly the same way--but to me, what people call a "netbook"
is nothing but a small laptop.

In fact, I wish there was no such word as "netbook," and people simply
called them small laptop. I own both an older laptop (which I no
longer use) and what's called a "netbook" (an EEE 1080HA). The netbook
is almost identical to the laptop, except for the following:

1. It's smaller, lighter, and therefore easier to carry when I travel.

2. It's considerably faster and more powerful, with more RAM, a faster
processor, and a bigger hard drive than the older laptop.

3. It has no CD/DVD drive, and I use an external one with it.

To me, there's nothing in that list of three differences that warrants
its having a different name.

 

[Daave]

It's just a matter of terminology of course--and we all don't use
words in exactly the same way--but to me, what people call a "netbook"
is nothing but a small laptop.

In fact, I wish there was no such word as "netbook," and people simply
called them small laptop. I own both an older laptop (which I no
longer use) and what's called a "netbook" (an EEE 1080HA). The netbook
is almost identical to the laptop, except for the following:

1. It's smaller, lighter, and therefore easier to carry when I travel.

2. It's considerably faster and more powerful, with more RAM, a faster
processor, and a bigger hard drive than the older laptop.

3. It has no CD/DVD drive, and I use an external one with it.

To me, there's nothing in that list of three differences that warrants
its having a different name.

Understood. However, the devices that are nonetheless referred to as
"netbooks" don't have optical drives (that was the point of my post).
Like you, I see these devices as a subset of laptops (or notebooks --
yet another term!). Philo wasn't aware of any laptops that lack optical
drives. These days, of course, there are quite a few. And many people
(perhaps because of marketing) don't consider netbooks laptops.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Understood. However, the devices that are nonetheless referred to as
"netbooks" don't have optical drives (that was the point of my post).

I don't know for sure that *none* of them do, but you are very likely
right, since having such a drive would add size and weight to them.

Like you, I see these devices as a subset of laptops (or notebooks --
yet another term!).

Yep, three names for the same thing. Ugh!

Philo wasn't aware of any laptops that lack optical
drives. These days, of course, there are quite a few.

And in the old days, that was true of almost all of them. I didn't
mention it before, but I also have an old (Windows 95-era) laptop that
I haven't used in years. That too has no optical drive.

And many people
(perhaps because of marketing) don't consider netbooks laptops.

Alas, you are undoubtedly right. The unfortunate power of marketing.