Re: Stupid Activation

That is to prevent you from "thieving" the operating system - which you are
trying to do.

You will get little sympathy here!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you thought you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!


"Talion78" <Talion78@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:41E07BF6-0A62-4567-ADA9-E7A77AEBBBB2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I bought a new Pc in January, and installed Windows XP and used the same
> registration key as my old computer, every thing has been fine until
> today,
> when my computer has asked mye to activate windows.
>
> I have gone into the activaiton screen and entered the registration key
> exactly from the label on my old PC. However I get an error message saying
> "According to our records, the number of times you can activate windows
> withthis registration key has exceeded"????????? How I've been using it
> for
> years. Can anyone help?
>
> I have no intention of paying microsoft for another copy of XP, when I
> have
> already done so.
>
> I have only 3 days left before windows stops...........help.........


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