HELP ME!!

Try to activate, and this time READ the screen carefully.
You will be given a phone number to call if the web activation fails.
As long as you have a legit copy you will have no issues.

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
"Gothic Saint" <Gothic Saint.DeleteThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C8E3B29C-5C70-4D6E-8851-0304ACA557ED@microsoft.com...
> As usual Microshit have stuffed up.. I have a Windows XP Pro OEM and
> recently
> upgraded to X64. Only to find no drivers... no games(almost).. and a big
> waste of time and money. I then re-installed my original Windows XP Pro
> Oem
> only to find Microshit has removed my old key so I can't activate.. I try
> to
> use their support site to explain to them what has happened and that I am
> a
> paying customer. An annoyed one at that.. If anyone has had this issue and
> OR
> knows what to do please help me!!
 >> Stay informed about: HELP ME!! 

Manny Borges wrote:
> Try to activate, and this time READ the screen carefully.
> You will be given a phone number to call if the web activation fails.
> As long as you have a legit copy you will have no issues.
>

Except having to waste time calling Microsoft to prove that one is not
guilty of piracy. Assuming paying customers to be thieves until they
prove otherwise is an *issue* and a big one. Did it every occur to you
Microsyphocants and to Microsoft itself that people might want to *use*
their computers instead of wasting time playing the MS WGA/N and WPA game?

If someone does have a pirated copy, they don't have to jump through the
WPA loops or the WGA loops and still get all the critical updates with
AU. This useless activity is only open to paying customers.

Alias
 >> Stay informed about: HELP ME!! 

GHalleck wrote:
>
> Gothic Saint wrote:
>
>> As usual Microshit have stuffed up.. I have a Windows XP Pro OEM and
>> recently upgraded to X64. Only to find no drivers... no
>> games(almost).. and a big waste of time and money. I then re-installed
>> my original Windows XP Pro Oem only to find Microshit has removed my
>> old key so I can't activate.. I try to use their support site to
>> explain to them what has happened and that I am a paying customer. An
>> annoyed one at that.. If anyone has had this issue and OR knows what
>> to do please help me!!
>
> Call the Activation Center. Microsoft is paying for the call.

Only in some countries. Here, in Spain, the customer has to pay for the
call to prove that he or she isn't a thief. In Spain, MS makes money on
*every* call.

> This is part of normal business associated with Windows Product
> Activation.

No, it's a waste of time that only affects paying customers while the
pirates just laugh their a$$ off.

> You are entitled to re-install your system as many
> times as you wish.

And then jump through the WPA and WGA hoops before you can *use* your
system.

Alias
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That was an unproductive comment.
It had nothing to do with the posters current issue (the technical one, not
the stupidity one)

If you don't like MS products, feel free to use something else.

--
Manny Borges
MCSE NT4-2003 (+ Security)
MCT, Certified Cheese Master

There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who do understand binary
and those who don't.
"--Alias--" <not RemoveThis @aolhell.org> wrote in message
news:exa$yQIuGHA.2392@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Manny Borges wrote:
>> Try to activate, and this time READ the screen carefully.
>> You will be given a phone number to call if the web activation fails.
>> As long as you have a legit copy you will have no issues.
>>
>
> Except having to waste time calling Microsoft to prove that one is not
> guilty of piracy. Assuming paying customers to be thieves until they prove
> otherwise is an *issue* and a big one. Did it every occur to you
> Microsyphocants and to Microsoft itself that people might want to *use*
> their computers instead of wasting time playing the MS WGA/N and WPA game?
>
> If someone does have a pirated copy, they don't have to jump through the
> WPA loops or the WGA loops and still get all the critical updates with AU.
> This useless activity is only open to paying customers.
>
> Alias
 >> Stay informed about: HELP ME!! 

Manny Borges wrote:
>
> If you don't like MS products, feel free to use something else.

If you don't like my posts, feel free not to read them.

Alias
 >> Stay informed about: HELP ME!! 

Manny Borges wrote:
> That was an unproductive comment.

NO, WGA and WPA are unproductive programs. If enough people complain,
perhaps MS will pay attention.

> It had nothing to do with the posters current issue (the technical one, not
> the stupidity one)

Are you calling me stupid?

>
> If you don't like MS products, feel free to use something else.

I see, no user feedback at the My Way or the Highway company you shill
for, eh?

Alias
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