Can anyone help

[maddogg1952]

purchased used laptop came with windows xp pro (no cds) able to update to point of "genuine windows validation" failed VLK volume license  blocked called and they (microF**K) wants $35.00 before they will let me talk to tech. or $135 to purchase xp. this is BS. by not having this "genuine microsoft software" what will it actually prevent me from doing .?

[Refalm]

The solution is to install Ubuntu Linux.

You can find it at:
http://www.ubuntu.com/

You can either download the CD or order it for free!

[Annorax]

God, that post made my eyes bleed. Proper grammar, capitalization, and punctuation are your friends.

The XP setup is completely screwed, as the person who installed XP Pro on your laptop didn't have a valid license for it. Microsoft is simply stopping you from updating a stolen copy of Windows. Please don't ask for further help with fixing your Microsoft software.

As Refalm said, the fix is to install Ubuntu Linux. Canonical will mail you install CDs for free, or you can download and burn it yourself. Now isn't free better than $135 plus obscene support charges?

[Xeniczone]

Try email I got to email for free a bunch of time once about someone stealing my halo product code and the other about dells product code not working with my windows xp cd.

Do you have a legal windows product code if you do I don't see why it wouldn't be illegal for me to send you my cd then you can burn it.

[Annorax]

Microsoft probably helped you with the stolen Halo key because you paid an absurd amount of cash for the game. The OP didn't pay anything for XP, he just assumed it came with his laptop. Since the original seller didn't have a legitimate OEM license, and didn't buy and include a retail XP package, it correctly stopped working. I see nothing wrong with this, as installing something else prevents Microsoft from gaining more market share.

Sending him your XP CD is illegal and just plain stupid. Microsoft's EULAs bind the OS license to the motherboard, essentially turning Windows into a nontransferable hardware component. That's why they have you put the sticker on your case.

Please do not send him your CD, and do not discuss it further here.... that's another form of software piracy*, and we can't be responsible for or associated with it. If he truly wants to fix his laptop, he knows where to get Ubuntu Linux.

*by software piracy in this case, I mean "things that make Microsoft lawyers waste our time with cease and decist emails and shit like that." I'm sure Refalm and ComSense don't want to fuck around with shit like that, so I'm going to put a stop to it here and now.

[Xeniczone]

i still don't see why it is illegal the cd is useless with out a product code but w/e.
 
where did you purcuse your laptop and what company? have you asked them for help.
 
EDIT: stupid me. I had to reread the post. Yeh they guy that installing it on your laptop didn't want to use the product code on that he had so he probably found one on the internet. Then used a method (I will not mention here because it is illegal to do this) to activate windows without calling microsoft the activation code. If your a windows user and don't like linux use the copy you have dont update it or expect any updates from microsoft using that version and then wait till next year jan. and get windows vista.

[piratePenguin]

If your a windows user and don't like linux use the copy you have dont update it or expect any updates from microsoft using that version and then wait till next year jan. and get windows vista.

GNU/Linux isn't to only alternative to Windows. There's FreeBSD and the rest of the BSDs, BeOS (kinda dead. But there's the alive Zeta too, and soon there'll be a free haiku) and ReactOS (alpha), and Mac OS X (need a Mac) and more (probably not great though).

[Annorax]

i still don't see why it is illegal the cd is useless with out a product code but w/e.
 
where did you purcuse your laptop and what company? have you asked them for help.
 
EDIT: stupid me. I had to reread the post. Yeh they guy that installing it on your laptop didn't want to use the product code on that he had so he probably found one on the internet. Then used a method (I will not mention here because it is illegal to do this) to activate windows without calling microsoft the activation code. If your a windows user and don't like linux use the copy you have dont update it or expect any updates from microsoft using that version and then wait till next year jan. and get windows vista.

Going without updates is a bad idea as well, because those XP things somehow sense changes in their environment and demand to be activated. Since he doesn't have a legit serial, he's pretty much fuckered when it does that. There are only two viable answers to this problem. One costs $135 and assimilates the laptop, the other costs $0 and liberates it. We can only hope he makes the right choice.

[H_TeXMeX_H]

Somehow I feel these people asking for help are not really in need of help. I mean it should be clear by now that the only answer (is answer a english word ... it looks so strange all of a sudden) is to install Linux ... I mean is that too hard to understand/figure out or are people trying to make fun of this ?

[Xeniczone]

try looking up ReactOS and use that it runs windows applications but is a free os.

[Annorax]

try looking up ReactOS and use that it runs windows applications but is a free os.

Or for a better non-Windows Windows solution, get Ubuntu or Debian Linux, then buy Crossover Office.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Which is just as non-Windows as the React OS solution Xeniczone proposed.

[Annorax]

Which is just as non-Windows as the React OS solution Xeniczone proposed.

True, but as I understand it, Wine and its commercial derivatives have better compatibility with Windows apps than ReactOS does. I'm not sure of this, seeing as I've never actually used ReactOS, but... from what I've heard, Wine and Crossover (and GNU/Linux in general) provide more options than ReactOS does.

[Aloone_Jonez]

You're right, I didn't read your post properly, I missed the word better.

[delboy]

If you don't know how to search for & find the XP Pro license key generator, then ...............??????????????????