Re: windows xp home edition

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"DEll Hater" <DEll Hater@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C78973BE-1DBF-4083-A32B-C0A5603AFE2D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i bought a computer from DELL around 5-6 years ago
. . . and i had a 5 year . . . but the problem is this when
i format my xp and enter my 25 digit xp code which is
still on the side off my pc i get a message saying i have
exceeded the limit on how many times i can use this
product so is it basically saying every time i format i have
to phone microsoft to get my xp registered

Are you using the XP disk that actually came bundled with your system from Dell, or are you using some other disk? And is it a special Dell recovery disk or is it a standard OEM XP disk or is it perhaps an XP disk that did not come with your machine at all? Presumably it is the OEM disk, otherwise you would have a different problem to the one you describe.

As far as I know Micro$oft grant a very restrictive licence for these OEM disks, effectively turning them into little more than "coasters" unless you are prepared to telephone Micro$oft when you install them after a reformat. That's how Micro$oft work. They provide very cheap OEM versions to system builders in order to maximize their market share and to make it extremely difficult for their competitors but they place draconian licencing restrictions on those OEM copies.

So, I'm afraid that you're just going to have to phone them. Unless of course you haven't had your annual holiday yet? If not, and if you happen to be taking a holiday in or near Nigeria, then Micro$oft will probably actually pay you some money to take a copy of XP off their hands, as they once did when they underhandedly paid a Nigerian IT company almost half a million dollars to take 17,000 copies of XP off their hands and to install them against the wishes of the customer on 17,000 machines that had been ordered with a "paid for" version of Mandriva Linux installed. So, it looks like its a choice between phoning Microsoft or taking a holiday in Nigeria, I'm afraid.

By the way, this is a Micro$oft Visual Basic newsgroup, so your post is a little off topic here.

Mike


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