Re: Windows XP End-of-Live (was Re: Thank You Tim Perry)

Ron(UK) wrote:

> John O wrote:
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>> "Arny Krueger" <arnyk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Microsoft don't seem to be bothering about preventing
>>>> folks authorising old versions of WinXP,
>>
>>
>> Old activations seem to fall out of their system after six months or 
>> so. You still can't activate the same copy of XP or Office three times 
>> in a week, 
> 
> 
> Yes you can, I did it five times with the same disk last week whilst 
> playing about trying to make a dual boot Windows/Linux machine.
> 
> 
>> but once a year has never been a problem. Anecdotally they are 
>> loosening up on the whole thing for older versions.
>>
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>>> They have no legal right to do that, per the original license.
>>>
>>>>  even the Genuine Validation doodah doesnt seem to be needed anymore,
>>
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>> It hit me just last week....
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> 
> Is your copy of windows a legal copy to start with?
> 
> Ron
I have a XP machine at home that for awhile wanted to re validate often.
MS would not revalidate the original install code after a while, but 
gave me a new install code.

Bob