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I have alredy written to this forum before.



Fujitsu - Siemens notebook was bought about one year ago. It seems

that it came with Windows XP Home preinstalled (there is COA product

key on the bottom of the computer), but Windows XP Home was never used

or activated by the user, nor was COA product key shared with any

other person. User unfortunatelly no longer posses (if he ever had)

installation CD for the Windows XP.



According to the instructions I have obtained on this forum, I

borrowed generic OEM Windows XP Home installation and used COA product

key. Installation was successfully completed. However, Windows XP

won't activate over Internet. Is it possible that activation failed

because installation CD somehow does not match product key? Again,

both COA and installation CD are Windows XP Home edition.



The only other reason for failed activation I can think of is that

product key was stolen. Any ideas?



Thanks for the answers.


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"Pygmalion" <marko@pinteric.com>wrote in message

And you VB question is ?





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My question is: Why isn't activation working?



Is it possible that the product key is SP - specific? Let's say COA

key is for Windows SP1, installation is SP2?



Neil.. je napisal:

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Pygmalion wrote:

The problem is that you're asking this question in a newsgroup dedicated =

to Visual Basic, so it's completely off-topic. Find a group for XP =

instead.

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Ups sorry!!!!



I clicked on the wrong group!



Regards



Jim Mack je napisal:

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On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:43:36 -0700, Pygmalion <marko@pinteric.com>

wrote:



That won't work. Despite common 'wisdom' there is no such thing as a

generic OEM version. You need to use the 'correct' disk for the key.



There may be a solution... You can phone in and possibly they will

activate you on a 'favor' basis. Explain *nicely* what happened (lost

disk, can't get original...) and see if MSFT will help you out. But

the automated system won't work for you.

And once again you've peppered it all over the net with multi-posts. On top

of that, though I've seen a lot of your multiposts, I've never seen this one

so I think you're also a liar.



foff.





Pygmalion wrote:





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What the heck is multi-post?



And yes, I did not already write to *this* forum about this specific

problem, I was writing to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general.



Regards



Pop` je napisal:

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A multi-post is when you post a copy of the same or similar message to

multiple newsgroups independently of each other.



If you put all the newsgroups on the To/Newsgroups line of the same post,

that's known as cross-posting, and is much preferred, since everyone in

every group will see the responses of others. It avoids people wasting time

posting the same response that you've already received in another group.

That said, some people object to cross-posting to large numbers of groups,

so try to limit your choices to only a few. Usually, two or three groups is

appropriate, though their may be cases where more makes sense (cross-product

questions, for instance).







Rob



"Pygmalion" <marko@pinteric.com>wrote in message



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First I posted this question to this newsgroup only. And after I

realised I have chosen the wrong one, I posted the same question to

the right group. So I guess this is an allowed type of multipost.



Regards



Robert Morley je napisal:

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Pygmalion wrote:

You really should take this to the Activation group for Microsoft.public.

You are Off Topic here. Other groups might be .general, .basics,

.windowsxp.general, etc..



Pop`





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This might help you with multi-posting vs. cross-posting and how to handle

queries to multiple newsgroups:



How to Post to more than one group:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossposting



If you cross-post properly, then for those of us who read several different

newsgroups, when we see your post once and it gets marked as read, it gets

marked as read in ALL of the other groups you posted to.

From your perspective it helps a lot too, because then a post to any one

group shows up in all the groups you crossposted to. So, by reading just

one of the groups you crossposted to, you're also seeing any responses from

people in the other groups you crossposted to, without having had to

remember or go to those newsgroups.

It makes things a lot easier for everyone involved.

Even with cross posting though, keep it to a minimum and choose the groups

you crosspost to carefully - being certain that you will be on-topic in each

of them. You are completely off topic in this group, for instance. Usually

a maximum of three groups is a good number if you need wide dispersal.



Also read about setting follow-ups at that link above and in your reader's

Help file. It can be quite useful, but ONLY for your own posts. Never set

a f'up to someone else's post.



Regards,



Pop`







Pygmalion wrote:





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