Re: Genuine Advantage - dodgy copy of Windows from Dealer
- From: "SG" <nomail@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:50:45 -0500
First thing I'd do is contact Microsoft and tell them your story. They
should advise you on the best way to take care of this problem.
All the best,
SG
"double0" <double0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi there,
Late 2004 we purchased a PC from a local specialist who built if for us.
Windows XP Professional was pre-installed. Alarm bells should have rung
straight away when we never received a Windows disc with the system, as he
informed us you didn't need one and any problems to give him a call. Last
year I looked into updating all the security and virus protection on the
PC
and found out the automatic updates had been turned off. Neither myself
or
any of my family would have changed the status of this. About of year's
worth of updates then started to install. When it got round to updating
media player, the genuine advantage warning came up that we may not have a
genuine copy of Windows XP and then subsequently I couldn't open media
player. We contacted the guy who had built it for us and he said he'd had
many problems as the dealer he'd bought all the licences from originally
in
High Wycombe, had now been caught reselling the same licence key several
times which meant most of the copies weren't genuine. He then said there
was
nothing he could do as he could not afford to buy all new licences for the
customers he had installed Windows for so it would be up to the customers
to
effectively pay again for something they'd already paid him for. The
thing
that makes me think this is dodgy is that he came to have a look at the PC
about a year earlier, and I think he must have switched the automatic
updates
off because he knew that the Windows on there was fake but wasn't going to
tell any of his customers - he'd just wait for them to somehow find out
like
I did. After that long story, my question is, should all new PCs with
Windows pre-installed come with a windows disc, or is it possible for them
just to be pre-loaded by whoever builds it and a new licence key assigned?
I
should also point out, we could never find the little sticker on the
machine
that has the PID on it. That's what makes me think the man who built it
has
been less than honest and not some third party in High Wycombe.
I have recently bought a new laptop (which has a genuine disc supplied!).
Can I install this copy of Windows XP Home onto my PC or will this flag up
as
being non-genuine as well? Thing is we don't really want to pay £95 to
make
something we've already paid for once a genuine copy.
.
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