From: relic211@cjb.net   
      
    wrote in message   
   news:f6ijj6dd4lbslu73rav9b16g9dpc3pbg8g@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 09:43:26 -0800, "relic"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> wrote in message   
   >>news:1uajj6to9a90gbl2ipo5eu37i4cusd6s3o@4ax.com...   
   >>> I had to reinstall Win XP.  The dang validity check kept telling me   
   >>> that my registration key for the Win XP Install CD was no good.  I   
   >>> bought the Win XP CD along with my new comp about a year ago. It *is*   
   >>> the install CD  that installed the original Win XP on my machine.  The   
   >>> key sticker is right on the side of the comp's case.  How in the hell   
   >>> can MS  tell me the CD key is not correct?   
   >>>   
   >>> Has anyone else had this problem?   
   >>>   
   >>> (I should *never* have trusted Redmond by installing that "validity"   
   >>> check crap on my machine.)   
   >>   
   >>Call Microsoft to validate. The phone number will show up when you select   
   >>that you are going to validate by phone. That would have taken less time   
   >>than it did to post your rant.   
   >>   
   > I didn't see that item at all.  Fortunately, since Acronis True Image   
   > gave me back my previously imaged backup, I don't have that problem of   
   > the 30 day  trial nonsense, but I will  if I have to live with a new   
   > install in the future.   
   >   
   > As far as the phone bit goes, are you sure they will even talk to me   
   > without me giving them a credit card number and charging me some   
   > outrageous fee?  It's ridiculous that this should have happened in the   
   > first place.   
      
   No charge for validation.   
      
   Maybe ridiculous, but it happens. It's not a big deal to activate over the   
   phone; I've had to do it too.   
      
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