Hello, Have you considered contacting Acer or Microsoft and insisting on getting genuine recovery (or installation) media? I would think that at least Microsoft would be interested in dealing with the reseller pirating the Windows XP Home version.
As far as for getting installation media, I know the ISOs can be downloaded from Microsoft through their MSDN and TechNet programs, and maybe their MSDN-AA, DreamSpark and BizSpark programs, however, those programs tend to have specific licensing requirements and you may not be able to use the Product ID keys from them for installing Windows XP on the Acer unless those requirements are met. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 9/3/2011, you wrote:
Message: 1 Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:37:12 -0400 From: "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> Subject: [Thinkpad] OT: buying WXP To: "Thinkpad Users Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Wifie bought her Acer in Bangkok which works superbly but came of course with pirate WXP home version. Now she's getting WGA nag screens and they are becoming more insistent every time she logs on. She'd be pleased to buy a real WXP (maybe Pro like the version on my T43) (in fact thought that was what she was getting when she bought the Acer). Questions: (1) What should she buy on ebay? I see discs that came with Dell etc. Are they installable on different vendor? Or have to buy something else and if so how specified? (2) How does one do the install to preserve her profiles and not wipe all the data on the drive? (3) Gotchas? Tks for all help.
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