Re: genuine validation failure

wolfmanjack81 wrote:

I purchased a laptop last week used off ebay came with XP Pro
installed (no CD) went to run genuine validation and says VLK blocked
microsoft wants $35 for support which I feel is wrong I do not feel I
should pay for support for something I had nothing to do with,will
this prevent me from any difficulties down road am able to do windows
update all including SP2. I have 2 volume licenses for XP but do not
want to use one on this laptop is not necessary.

So you are comfortable using a pirated install, and don't want to turn
in the business (person) that sold you the laptop with the pirated OS?

Then don't worry about it.

If you need security updates, then you can get them by turning on Auto
Updates, but that is counter-intuitive to Common Sense Computing.

http://comsense.microscum.com

So if you want to update using Common Sense, then you can get any
Security Update you need for MS from the following page:

http://microscum.kurttrail.com/postsp2

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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'."


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