-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Using an XP upgrade to do a claen insatll that is legal
- From: ~OoO~ <sirtroth@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:18:18 -0400
When you try to validate your copy through the Windows Update, and it tells
you that you can't validate cause you don't have a valid copy, there should
be a link to click that'll go to the correct page on the MS site. I think
some of their criteria for getting a free copy is basically 'ratting' on the
person that installed Windows XP or gave you that illegal copy in the first
place. Good incentive if that person is the retailer who refuses to now give
you a legitimate CD that you should have gotten in the first place.
:o)
---Troth
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From: pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 8:54 AM
To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Using an XP upgrade to do a claen insatll that
is legal
I read somewhere that part of Microsoft's new validation procedure is a
means to make yourself legal. You can buy it or get it free from them based
on several variables. Unfortunately, I can't find the info on a quick
Google search.
Am I imagining things?
Don
----- Original Message -----
From: "David F. Wooledge" <wooledge001@xxxxxxxx>
To: "@freelistts PCTechTalk" <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 5:07 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Using an XP upgrade to do a claen insatll that is
legal
> For all you folks who have illegal copies of Windows XP software installed
> to be legal you have to buy the product. If you have an illegal copy of
> your local newspaper (that is you or someone else stole it) and you want a
> legal copy of the newspaper you have to buy it. With a newspaper, if you
> want to use the legal copy you bought you have to read it. With the
> software, if you want to use the legal copy you have to install it. You
> can buy the CD which will have a product key with the packaging or you can
> buy just the license which will not have a CD but will have a product key
> (you might want just the license if you have a copy of the CD already.)
> You can install the software by using the CD or you can input the legal
> product key. How to install the product key is explained in Mike's file.
> If you have a legal CD for Me or 98 you can buy an XP upgrade. If you
> want to do a clean install with the upgrade CD you can format the drive
> during the installation. You will loo
> se
> everything on the hard drive, including the old Me or 98. At some point
> you will have to insert your Me or 98 CD to prove you own a legal copy you
> are updating from. You do not have to spend the extra money for a non
> upgrade full CD to do a clean install. You just have to prove you have Me
> or 98 by inserting your old CD in the CD drive when asked. You also can
> use the upgrade CD without wiping out the Me or 98 and it will keep your
> settings from Me or 98. This is where people seem to have problems when
> they say they are using the upgrade CD. By having the XP installation
> format the drive you wipe out the old software and every thing else which
> gives you a clean new install with the upgrade CD. Simply if you have an
> illegal XP that you or someone else stole you have to buy XP to be legal.
> A pirated copy is a copy someone stole. Hope this helps to explain things.
> Dave
>
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> Yes that's my problem. Well my parents but I have to fix it. So that's
> what
> I
> am trying to figure out how to do to make it legal
> Cindy
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