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We are paying for features we will never use. Maybe what we need is the same program but one buys the basic core program and if we want XML support we buy an activation key for that, payroll another activation key (as it is now) and so on. I already have an external PAYE package for the UK that I had when I used

Offline Activation Office XP
I really need a product key for Windows xp Home Edition. You see I have two computers and the people at MS say I can only use the one activation key to Customers who have already purchased one upgrade copy of Windows XP Professional or Home Edition may purchase additional product activation codes for $8 to $12

How bad has Windows registration gotten?
They'll either use something that doesn't treat them in this way or go behin mummy's back and use something that gives them what they want but doesn't patronize them. If the WinXP/Office XP key system hasn't been cracked already I don't think it'll take long. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the next version of

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I purchased online Vista home for my laptop. I have now purchased the full version of Vista Ultimate. I want to use Ultimate on the laptop and install the Home Version on a different computer. Can I do this? And if so how do I reuse the activation key on the second computer?

XP Profession (re)activation key
I also am finding that I can't purchase an OEM version (in order to use the activation code) unless I purchase a core piece of hardware. it seems the only way I can run my second comuter is to pay a huge amount for a retail version for a system THAT ALREADY HAS THE SOFTWARE ( i just need the activation key ).

What install media do I use when I downgrade to XPP from VB?
terri AssocExp...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp beta general What happened is that you've already used your activation on your laptop. Your license is for one computer. You'll have to call MS to see if they'll give you another product key, or you can remove it from your laptop and call to be sure of

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So I bought a new hard drive, and went to install it, but it then said that I had activated it twice already, and that I could not use that activation key. So I used the Key to the Windows XP Upgrade since I never installed it. Everything worked fine. But now i need the other hard drive with the Frist bad version

Activation Key
If I use the restore and recovery disk provided with my Sony, will I have to call and get a re- activation key??? Also, is there anyway to get rid of the Malicious Script Alert Before posting, please search to see if your question has already been answered http://tinyurl.com/2uc4 and fill in the relevant boxes.

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The only difference is that alt is already used by applications for prefix keying (ie you press alt, then you press the activation key) whereas ctrl and shift happen not to have been used so far. Provide a link to a program which uses my version of prefix keys. Provide a link to a description of using the control

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As I said: It already worked, and did not require this information in order for it to install, this was only "after" it had installed 100% correctly. Microsoft will not let you activate it. The OEM license is completely tied to the new Dell. You have to buy a new copy of XP, and that copy cannot be used on more

XP SP1 Known Issues
If you have Pix OS 6.2(2) or newer you can use the "activation-key" command. Just log in to your Pix with serial cable, telnet or ssh (I don't know if you can do your activation key is load a operating system image to your Pix. It doesn't have to be a newer version, you can load the same version you already have.

OT: More on XP product activation...
I've used it. Echo Dylon wrote: THanks Echo, I bought PP2002 seperately, so that means when i've already installed to a computer and in order to uninstal it and install it on another computer, i have to call them to get a new activation key? Is there another way? like emailing them and ask them to deactivate hehehe

XP Upgrade/Two PCs
86973517353517 <= install key, 'used' already, so don't try phoning it in - you don't need to. 37521065588 <= activation key - given out by Intuit Here's how you do it: 1. Change the volume ID of the 'C' partition on your hardrive to the one given above. You do this with the program 'VolumeID v2.0' available here:

Activation Key Already In Use
Get you key from the Get Key link on the MSDN download page for Office XP. The use of the tool OfficeXPUniversalActivator.exe is the issue you have encountered as it was built by Can't do online activation, it says the product key was already activated (one of the other machines in this office activated it).

Product key and restore cd
But then you have already shown in other threads that facts are not of interest to you. Or perhaps you did not read my post and simply chose to respond out of ignorance? And I just took a major US OEM's XPSP1 Install CD and Product Key, which is BIOS-Locked, installed it on a Home Brew computer, activated that

Activation key in use
And my conversation with Leythos in this thread has been hardly about MS EULA rules, but about how activation works, and what MS does with Activation, hardly a topic that has been Yeah, and I have always helped out on other threads when it hasn't been answered already, or I have a different way of doing things.

comp.unix.sco Technical FAQ (2/5)
Papa bikin...@my.fun microsoft public win98 gen_discussion Hi Cornell: Jazz has already covered the various concerns, but in regard to installing Windows XP on your older The whole point is to prevent the use of a single copy of Windows XP on more than one machine. Each machine will need its own key. Regards.

Activation Key Already In Use
P. Di Stolfo paolodisto...@hotmail.com microsoft public windows vista administration_accounts_passwords Hello, the product key is "already in use" by your old installation. Just activate Windows - over telephone, if necessary. The activation process will work fast and shouldn't be a problem.

Activation Key
When I go to Computer and enter my activation key, it says my key is invalid. But when I do the whole thing with the telephone, it says my Windows is activated (which "John Barnett MVP" wrote: Does it say 'your key is invalid' or 'you key is already in use?' If it is the later then see this link on my website:

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It´s similar for a Brit calling to Scotland and listen to a Scotish that´s never been outside Glascow. The activation work ed at first try. So believe me, this is the solution to the "activation key already in use" if you´ve done something with your computer, and suddenly Vista starts behaving like it was