Win XP goes off after 30 days

Take it to a friends house !

If you can't get to Microsoft over the net, you'll have to call them on the phone. The number to call should be in the activation instructions that came with your system.

BTW, if you don't have access to the net, how did you post this message??????????????????

That's so archaic.

This won't cost you a cent

--and those folks won't constantly call you a thief.

But that's the point. You shouldn't have to. His activation is dropping out every month or so. Phone activation?? No bloody wonder why many buy a product, and then hack it for use. I did the same thing with a friends' installation of MS Office. I was part way through the phone activation, before I miss-dialled the second time. You've GOT to be f*cking joking. I delayed the install a few days while I found a hack. Screw that for a joke, I've got better things to do.

Perhaps only occasional access to the net? Therefore not practical to move the machine to wherever you have 'net access just to take care of that. Harder if you don't have a network card, or no other way to net enable the thing. Yadda yadda, you get the idea.

It's not impossible. Years back I had a UUCP feed for news and mail; it wouldn't have done a blessed thing for getting XP registered, couldn't surf the web, etc.

Use the phone activation, as stupid as the requirement to activate is, the process is largely automated and painless.

I'm a Kubuntu user and an advocate but to suggest Ubuntu to the OP in this case is idiotic.

That's not what is happening. He has to keep reinstalling it after 30 days when it quits because it wasn't activated in the first place. Well at least that's my interpretation :)

If he lives in a place so remote he can't get online connectivity easily, the phone call will probably cost him a month's salary.

A proper genuine Win XP (not a counterfeit one, it isn't legal anyway) OS should be registered with Microsoft company.Win XP Home Edition OS in my Velocity Micro desk top computer is.Velocity Micro

JeffM wrote:

Meat Plow wrote: (X-No-Archive, as done by so many cowards)

That depends on:

If he's still tied to some Windows-compatible app[1], well, in 2007, a huge number of Windoze binaries can run using WINE

--completely eliminating the Microsoft Tax(tm).

If that doesn't work for what he's doing, he should find a copy of W2000 (no stupid Product Activation) and run that in a Virtual Machine under Linux. When (not *IF*) Windoze blows up, just close the Virtual Session. He'll soon find that not having to constantly reboot the hardware for all those Windoze f*ck-ups or for the slightest little tweak is SO much nicer than the M$ way. . . [1] Running a bootable Knoppix CD will demonstrate just how many FREE apps are available to do what you have been doing under Windoze with non-libre payware.

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XP sometimes loses its authorisation due to changing items of hardware, you get a screen telling you that it need re-authorising and a choice to activate by telephone. After entering your country, your computer provides a free phone number and a registration code of (I Think) 50 digits. Dialing the freephone number gets you a computer generated voice who (which) asks that you enter the number into your phone - in groups of - I think - 6 digits to make it easier, then after asking a few trick questions about why you need to re authorise windows (new Motherboard & how many computers is this copy of windows installed on? - answer ONE!), supplies you with a new activation code which you type into the box provided. It`s easier done than said.

I assume it`s the same in the US as it is here.

Ron(UK)

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Yep the same in the US but the clue as to my theory is the 30 day thing. Once you install Windows XP or Office XP you have 30 days trial to activate it after which it becomes unusable.

hi, microsoft is retarded .

now what does a friend of mine that is 6 and half hours away from the nearest town, doesnt have phone , he only has hf radio and snail mail. how does he activate it. ??? microsoft cant even answer that !!! no wonder people get peed of and make cracks etc...

so , if i load this , i can install any other microsoft software without any problems ??

well, you be screwed if you live over 6 hours , out on a farm , with NO TELEPHONE , only contact is via hf radio , and snail mail. microsoft didnt even bother to think about people out on farms in the middle of no where did they ? when they try to register their copy pf crappy xp.

No offense, but it's common knowledge that recent Microsoft operating systems require "online" activation of some sort. You should have asked about this.

Have someone with 'net access or near a telephone contact Microsoft and ask what you should do. Microsoft should be able to supply some form of confirmation that will allow the computer to continue working.

Note that activation is "permaent" unless you make sufficient system alteration (peripherals, lots of software) that the OS starts thinking it's on another computer. (Yeah, I know that sounds dumb.

Ideas:

HF radio phone patch.

Satellite phone. (Don't you have satellite phones out there?)

Write Microsoft a letter by snail mail.

Or just get the activation done when you buy the computer.

This only has to be done once, when Windows is first installed, and you have

More to the point... People 6 hours from civilization are *not* the main target audience of Windows XP!

yeah right, so everybody listening can get the numbers??