My laptop was stolen, and I took its WinXP Home install CD and used it to repair an old PC (gotta cut my losses somehow). Now it wants an activation key and won't recognize the one that came with it (probably because I'm installing it on a different machine).
I have an XP Pro disk from a previous laptop (also stolen), and I want to know if it requires an activation key as well. Does year matter? The XP home disk is from 2007 (I only had that laptop for 2 months!), the XP Pro disk is from 2004.
If none of these works, I'm going to format the machine and start over with Win2k (uhh, can I go backwards like that?).
Seriously, I've been robbed twice in the span of 3 months, won't Dell and Microsoft have a little mercy on me so I can have a functional home computer???
2007-04-11
07:15:52
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Gumdrop Girl
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