Re: Validation Nightmare - Please Help

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Carey Frisch
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Windows XP - Shell/User
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"MikeG" wrote:

| My machine has been hacked yet again despite all precautions to the
| contrary, I have formatted and re-installed WinXP, with both Service Packs,
| and cannot get it validated.
|
| They tell me that the alloted number of validations for that key has been
| exceeded.
|
| I call the number they give, read off 60 numerals to a machine, the machine
| tells me it cannot validate the installation ID I just gave them and must
| transfer me to an operator, then it tells me that I have dialed incorrectly
| and to call back.
|
| What a runaround. How can I reach an operator to get this over with?
| Thanks...MikeG in Erie

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