Why can't I activate Windows XP?

Posted by tracyanne on Mar 29, 2008 7:18 AM EDT
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Summary: I tried to activate Windows XP Home and it didn't work. Thus began a phone saga with Microsoft support, ending in failure. Until I fixed it myself. I'm trying to activate Windows XP Home. I've just performed a clean setup, and Windows now won't let me even login until I activate. The network card has apparently not yet been configured, so I can't activate over the 'net. When I do the phone activation, the "installation ID" I'm supposed to give the Microsoft representative is blank. What do I do? That question wasn't posed by just any reader. This time it was me. And after an hour and a half on the phone, I was no further along. And yet, left to my own devices I had the machine activated in about 10 minutes. This is not good. Not at all. In fact, it's downright depressing.

Not Linux I know, but an interesting tale.

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OK Leo, I'm Asking "Why Should I Care" moopst 11 2,211 Mar 31, 2008 1:01 AM

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