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What do you mean by slipstreamed?
kurttrail Wrote:
> Xom wrote:-
> I just reinstalled windows xp and it wants me to reactivate but it
> says my product key is invalid. This happened last time I reinstalled
> windows xp but I got it working by calling the telephone option and
> them giving me a new product key
> but this time they wont they say to call emachines because my
> computer
> is techically still a emachines computer(I have done so much
> upgrading
> to my computer that really no longer an emachines). So when I call
> emachines they couldnt do anything and they said the porblem was
> cause
> by the non emachine motherbroad I have in my computer. So I called
> microsoft again andthey said call
> emachines agian even when I told them that I already did and got
> nowhere. So is there any way I can activate my copy of windows?-
>
> 3 ways, but not all are good ones.
>
> 1.) Download a crack.
>
> 2.) Call both MS and emachines back, record the conversations & get a
> lawyer.
>
> 3.) It's probably too late, but call back and tell the MS phone rep
> that
> you used a slipstreamed SP2 OEM CD to reinstall XP on your computer.
> If
> asked why you needed to reinstall, the reason for your reinstalled was
> you upgraded components, but under no circumstances say you upgraded
> the
> motherboard.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
--
Xom
What do you mean by slipstreamed?
kurttrail Wrote:
> Xom wrote:-
> I just reinstalled windows xp and it wants me to reactivate but it
> says my product key is invalid. This happened last time I reinstalled
> windows xp but I got it working by calling the telephone option and
> them giving me a new product key
> but this time they wont they say to call emachines because my
> computer
> is techically still a emachines computer(I have done so much
> upgrading
> to my computer that really no longer an emachines). So when I call
> emachines they couldnt do anything and they said the porblem was
> cause
> by the non emachine motherbroad I have in my computer. So I called
> microsoft again andthey said call
> emachines agian even when I told them that I already did and got
> nowhere. So is there any way I can activate my copy of windows?-
>
> 3 ways, but not all are good ones.
>
> 1.) Download a crack.
>
> 2.) Call both MS and emachines back, record the conversations & get a
> lawyer.
>
> 3.) It's probably too late, but call back and tell the MS phone rep
> that
> you used a slipstreamed SP2 OEM CD to reinstall XP on your computer.
> If
> asked why you needed to reinstall, the reason for your reinstalled was
> you upgraded components, but under no circumstances say you upgraded
> the
> motherboard.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt
> Self-anointed Moderator
> microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
> http://microscum.com/mscommunity
> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"
--
Xom