As Microsoft said a while ago, let China pirate our software, we will figure out how to get them eventually.
Well, the time is now. I know that our old XP volume license cd's do not work with the present license codes on the new computers, well the old ones that came installed with XP. Vista is a different story. Some XP SP2 license codes do not work with XP cds. Our volume XP license codes do not work with OEM XP SP2 cds. It seems that XP OEM license codes work with all OEM cds. add to the variations, home and professional. Of course the variations are many, and all are not covered here, but with the latest XP released software, it is best to use the cd that came with the system. If the system is older that 4-5 years, I would guess that any non-SP XP cd should work. We have had people take their laptops to china for a sabbatical and it did not work because of the geography. Come to think if it, MS had a glitch in their software license input that caused the validation software on our systems say it was illegal. One numbers or letters was missing in the license headquarters. Then again, I found a site online, a few years ago, that indicated that a big univeristy had 1,000,000+ or so installed systems in china under a volume license key. Check you local computer flea market, they are usually selling old OEM cds for about $10.00 or so. Andy At 01:24 PM 4/26/2010, Richard Stovall wrote: >My personal experience is that you need an install disk from the >original vendor. Have you checked eBay? > >On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:18 PM, James Kerr ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote: >Just a CD without a key. I know I can by just media from CDW or just >licenses for my job because I have volume licensing. Anyway it >appears that MS is saying I'm SOL, or my friend is anyway. Looks >like she is going to spend some $ if she wants this thing fixed. > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl Houseman" ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >To: "NT System Admin Issues" ><<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 1:02 PM >Subject: RE: xp media > > >It's not clear what you're asking to buy. If you know a place to purchase >CD's without license keys, I'd stay away from that like the plague. If >you're asking if we know such a place, I wouldn't use one if I did. > >If you purchase a CD with a license key, then just use the license key that >comes with it. > >If you can scare up any "real" OEM CD (from friends or family), it *may* >just work as long as the edition (Home/Pro/MCE) is the same. There are >cases where generic CDs won't work, as I found with an old Toshiba laptop >several years ago (wouldn't activate and MS won't approve the activation >over the phone). > >Carl > > >-----Original Message----- >From: James Kerr [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 11:49 AM >To: NT System Admin Issues >Subject: xp media > >I have a laptop of a friend and its needs to have Windows XP Home >reinstalled from scratch. They do not have the restore CDs and the restore >partition doesnt have the required files. I called Gateway to buy restore >CDs but they only have them for PCs no older than 3 years. Anyone know if >it's possible to buy an XP home edition media CD and use the license key >that came from Gateway that's on the laptop with it? > >James > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >~ ><<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > >~ > > > >~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >~ ><<http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/>http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> > >~ > > > > > > --------Andy-Ofalt---863-3449------405-Ag-Admin-Bldg------for more information go to http://ict.cas.psu.edu/Contacts.html ---------- My little blurb to eat up bandwidth and make your mail box even larger +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The real problem is that IP, a connectionless protocol, was never developed to be the universal protocol. ATM was developed to serve that purpose and failed. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
