product key???

[kerri ireson]

hello users....

can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are
installing windows xp please.

i bought a download disk and a product key was on the
front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work
this is the key i entered

S/n: YTMFCQPX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM

can you hep please.......?

bye reply soon

[Steve]

Check the product key, it has 5 groups of 5 . eg. J45PO - MLO87 - I77O9 -
PPP2I - LLK8R
Steve

"kerri ireson" > wrote in message
...
> hello users....
>
> can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are
> installing windows xp please.
>
> i bought a download disk and a product key was on the
> front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work
> this is the key i entered
>
> S/n: YTMFCQPX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM
>
> can you hep please.......?
>
> bye reply soon

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Kerri,

It didn't work as you are two characters short. You must have miscopied it,
hope you didn't throw the packaging away. You need to enter this number in
order to begin installing, if you have lost the retail key, call MS Support
at 800-936-5700. If this is an OEM version, you need to contact whomever you
got it from.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"kerri ireson" > wrote in message
...
> hello users....
>
> can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are
> installing windows xp please.
>
> i bought a download disk and a product key was on the
> front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work
> this is the key i entered
>
> S/n: YTMFCQPX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM
>
> can you hep please.......?
>
> bye reply soon

[Patrick]

kerri ireson wrote:
> hello users....
>
> can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are
> installing windows xp please.
>
> i bought a download disk and a product key was on the
> front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work
> this is the key i entered
>
> S/n: YTMFCQPX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM
>
> can you hep please.......?
>
> bye reply soon

The product key that you show is clearly wrong, it should be 5 groups of 5
alphanumeric characters.

Thus said, It is just as well that you did post the wrong product-key here,
as it should be kept 'secret'.

[GC]

"kerri ireson" > wrote in message
...
> hello users....
>
> can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are
> installing windows xp please.
>
> i bought a download disk and a product key was on the
> front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work
> this is the key i entered
>
> S/n: YTMFC-QPXHR-V4T22-MXHMY-VQM
>
> can you hep please.......?
>
> bye reply soon

YTMFC-QPXHR-V4T22-MXHMY-VQM??
Two numbers/letters are missing. Seems like you have an illegal disc.

[Alex Nichol]

kerri ireson wrote:

>can anyone tel me wat a product key is for when you are=20
>installing windows xp please.
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>i bought a download disk and a product key was on the=20
>front of the package but when I entered it, it didn't work=20
>this is the key i entered=20
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>S/n: YTMFCQPX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM

A proper Product Key would normally be on a yellow sticky label on a
card *inside* the box, and is 25 characters in five groups of five, so
more like

YTMF8-CQ7PX-HRV4T-22MXH-MYVQM

It is a unique number, to identify your particular copy (though not you)
and is checked by the setup program on the CD to be a valid combination
of characters. It (or rather a number - the Product ID - derived from
it) is then recorded as part of the 'activation' of windows, along with
another that will be unique to your hardware, so that it can be noticed
if someone tries to install on a second machine

Note that the typeface used makes it very easy to confuse G with 6; S
with5 and B with 8



--=20
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.