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In article , lid says...

On 02/01/2018 02:01, Diesel wrote:
Java Jive news Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:41:35 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On 29/12/2017 05:53, Diesel wrote:

You have a couple of options...You can continue trying via the
browser method, but, you need to update ie6 to atleast sp1 or, go
with ie8.

Alternatively, you can try this from console to bring up the
activation window I described above and go from there. Keep in
mind, it renders in html, so if your copy of ie is foobared, this
may not work. Each line requires you to press enter after it,
naturally.

open cmd.exe via start/run
cd\windows\system32\oobe
msoobe /a

Of the options presented, online activation probably isn't going
to work.

It depends whether the key is really legit. I activated a laptop
with XP earlier this year.

Well, it's a little more complicated than that, actually. There's
several types of legit keys and they won't all activate these days
with the simple online activation option. A completely legit key can
still fail to be accepted using that method. Been there, done it,
many times.

I suspect that your failures can be classed under the heading "Microsoft
no longer activates NEW keys"! That is, for some time, probably since
end of support, MS has not allowed activation of even 'legit' keys that
have never been activated before. They will only re-activate old
'legit' ones, as long as they are on the same or similar equipment. How
similar the equipment actually has to be is, I grant, a matter of debate
but in tests I did same make different model of laptop worked, but home
built desktop unsurprisingly wouldn't work with a key from a laptop.

Wait, I lied. There's actually another option, but, it's not
exactly a legal one. That is, if you really want to keep XP pro.
You'll have to reinstall it, from scratch though.

No, not really viable, as the rebuilt installation will not get
any updates, not even the ones originally targeting XP.

Wrong answer. You've evidently never heard of WSUS.

Why not just say "screw you" to MS and download an iso has every version
of XP you'd want on it and use that to do an install? The ones I've seen
also include most if not all available XP updates as part of the iso. No
need to activate and I've never run across any issues with anything
being added shouldn't be there.

Now before anyone spouts off ... Problem is, I've just had to fix too
many old folks's PCs. There's no sticker and they never have original
manuals etc. There's no way I want to tell them that even though there's
nothing really wrong with current system vcan't be fixed, MS wants them
too go out and buy a new pc (and learn a new OS when they don't even
know the one they've used for years) so they can read their email and/or
read their local news AND THAT'S ABOUT ALL. I've never met one even uses
Facebook (to confusing) and only one watches any videos (old westerns).
Only time they know of uTube is when some family member sends them a
link in an email.