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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP.
I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
Bill in Co wrote:
wrote: I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP. I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. Two days left to ACTIVATE WinXP??? I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff date), BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. I think I got three days when I did a WinXP repair install. You can always research this command, but I don't know if this'll help or not. This is a "re-arm". I use this on a WinXP VM which is not activated. rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk Paul |
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On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 03:38:01 -0500, Paul wrote:
I think I got three days when I did a WinXP repair install. You can always research this command, but I don't know if this'll help or not. This is a "re-arm". I use this on a WinXP VM which is not activated. rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk Apparently that fixed it, it's not nagging anymore! That's cool!!!! Thanks I wonder how the activation knew this is a reinstall, when I'm using a different hard drive????? |
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| I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff
date), | BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. | I've been wondering about that. As I recall, when people complianed about Product Activation Microsoft said, "Don't worry. When XP goes unsupported we'll issue a free activation code for anyone who wants to keep running it." I haven't heard anything about such a universal code being issued so far, and I find it hard to believe that Microsoft might do that when it means that they might miss out on some sales as a result. I just can't see them doing the honorable thing. And I'm guessing that at the time they made the promise they never imagined that 1/3 to 1/2 of the world would avoid buying anything post-XP. |
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:24:49 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote: I've been wondering about that. As I recall, when people complianed about Product Activation Microsoft said, "Don't worry. When XP goes unsupported we'll issue a free activation code for anyone who wants to keep running it." I also remember hearing that rumor, but as far as I know it's not correct. Microsoft never said that. |
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Mayayana typed: I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff date), BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. I've been wondering about that. As I recall, when people complianed about Product Activation Microsoft said, "Don't worry. When XP goes unsupported we'll issue a free activation code for anyone who wants to keep running it." I haven't heard anything about such a universal code being issued so far, and I find it hard to believe that Microsoft might do that when it means that they might miss out on some sales as a result. I just can't see them doing the honorable thing. And I'm guessing that at the time they made the promise they never imagined that 1/3 to 1/2 of the world would avoid buying anything post-XP. I know they said that when MS Money support ended. And they released the last version for free and that one requires no activation. -- Bill Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2 Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2 |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP. I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. You don't need an Internet connection. Just call the telephone number you are given by the activation program. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307890 You'll need to have the COA sticker with the product key. |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
Paul wrote:
Bill in Co wrote: wrote: I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP. I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. Two days left to ACTIVATE WinXP??? I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff date), BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. I think I got three days when I did a WinXP repair install. You can always research this command, but I don't know if this'll help or not. This is a "re-arm". I use this on a WinXP VM which is not activated. rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk Paul Fascinating. I just looked this up (briefly) on the net, but found some folks said this will just reset Windows Activation for 30 days, and that they needed to do some additional registry tweaks which they posted. Have you heard of that? |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
I got curious and did some looking. I found this:
http://www.zdnet.com/windows-xp-end-...ed-7000025151/ According to Mary Jo Foley, XP must be activated in the future and the means to do that will be maintained. But she says she got that word-of-mouth. MS apparently haven't put any sort of commitment in writing. |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
Bill in Co wrote:
Paul wrote: Bill in Co wrote: wrote: I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP. I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. Two days left to ACTIVATE WinXP??? I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff date), BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. I think I got three days when I did a WinXP repair install. You can always research this command, but I don't know if this'll help or not. This is a "re-arm". I use this on a WinXP VM which is not activated. rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk Paul Fascinating. I just looked this up (briefly) on the net, but found some folks said this will just reset Windows Activation for 30 days, and that they needed to do some additional registry tweaks which they posted. Have you heard of that? Re-arming can be done several times, and the reason a specific number of re-arms is possible, is related to what technicians do when preparing images for enterprise machines in an IT department. To give an example, a virtual machine (unactivated), offered for download on the Internet, the person who prepared it, used up all but one re-arm on the OS. And that was done on purpose. You can generally only do these things so many times, before you're cooked. Let's hope Casey gets the dialup modem running, before the remaining days are used up. On later OSes, the command used would look something like. Google for more details, because the "slmgr" program has lots of nice options. slmgr.vbs -rearm slmgr /rearm HTH, Paul |
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I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP
"Bill in Co" wrote in message m...
wrote: I keep gettting a message saying 2 days left to activate XP. I thought we had 30 days. I just installed it about 3 days ago. ???? I have not been able to do it online cuz I'm unable to connect to the internet on that computer. Looks like MS lied!!! Suppose I'll have to use the phone option. Two days left to ACTIVATE WinXP??? I thought the XP activation would continue (with no specified cutoff date), BUT the XP updates would go offline - in April. No Bill in Co Will not go updates would go offline - in April |
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