fvcking windows validation bullsh|t

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DLeRium
You pirate XP and you complain?

Idiot.

Laptops come with recovery disks.

Sure they do. That's why out of the 4 laptops my family has owned, not one of them has come with recovery disks.I think the 2 dells came with recovery partitions and my old fujitsu laptop had a utility to make the recovery floppies. 30 floppies to backup windows 95. :roll:

the recovery disk is usually a hidden partition on the harddisk (not that it does much godd if you upgrade the harddisk)

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DLeRium
You pirate XP and you complain?

Idiot.

Laptops come with recovery disks.

Sure they do. That's why out of the 4 laptops my family has owned, not one of them has come with recovery disks.I think the 2 dells came with recovery partitions and my old fujitsu laptop had a utility to make the recovery floppies. 30 floppies to backup windows 95. :roll:

ok it seems like I was wrong. I apologize. I reformatted while i was away at college but I'm at my parents home for the week and I just went into the attic and for some reason my dad saved the box that my laptop came in. I opened it up and discovered there were actually recovery discs. not as good as an actual xp cd but it's better than nothing. I'll just have to uninstall all the extra crap that came on the computer. BTW, does anyone know if I have to activate windows if I use the recovery cds?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DLeRium
You pirate XP and you complain?

Idiot.

Laptops come with recovery disks.

Sure they do. That's why out of the 4 laptops my family has owned, not one of them has come with recovery disks.I think the 2 dells came with recovery partitions and my old fujitsu laptop had a utility to make the recovery floppies. 30 floppies to backup windows 95. :roll:

ok it seems like I was wrong. I apologize. I reformatted while i was away at college but I'm at my parents home for the week and I just went into the attic and for some reason my dad saved the box that my laptop came in. I opened it up and discovered there were actually recovery discs. not as good as an actual xp cd but it's better than nothing. I'll just have to uninstall all the extra crap that came on the computer. BTW, does anyone know if I have to activate windows if I use the recovery cds?

you will need to ring microsoft to activate...most OEM's don't allow internet activation

 

[czech09]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DLeRium
You pirate XP and you complain?

Idiot.

Laptops come with recovery disks.

Sure they do. That's why out of the 4 laptops my family has owned, not one of them has come with recovery disks.I think the 2 dells came with recovery partitions and my old fujitsu laptop had a utility to make the recovery floppies. 30 floppies to backup windows 95. :roll:

ok it seems like I was wrong. I apologize. I reformatted while i was away at college but I'm at my parents home for the week and I just went into the attic and for some reason my dad saved the box that my laptop came in. I opened it up and discovered there were actually recovery discs. not as good as an actual xp cd but it's better than nothing. I'll just have to uninstall all the extra crap that came on the computer. BTW, does anyone know if I have to activate windows if I use the recovery cds?

Yes - if you've deleted the recovery partition. However just call up Microsoft they're usually pretty helpful about activating it on the same computer.

 

[Shawn]

Wow, going through all this crap I just found the receipt for this computer. Purchased 12/21/02. :Q If anyone is wondering this is the Sotec 3120x deal from a few years back. Got it for $700. Upgraded the ram to 640MB and it still works great. I thought for sure this thing would die after a year.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: intogamer
Corporate for the win

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

I still want a t-shirt.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I still want a t-shirt.

Someone should make some.

 

[ForumMaster]

yeah the software will tell you it's not legit cause you probablly dl'ed a regular copy of xp instead of the OEM for which your cd key is meant. there's nothing wrong with downloading a copy of xp cause you pay for the serial. however, using an OEM serial for the copy of windows you installed (unless it's and OEM copy) will make windows see your key as illegit.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
I still want a t-shirt.

Someone should make some.

"I survivied Windows Genuine Advantage"

It would be great. I'm going to be making one....

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: czech09

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: DLeRium
You pirate XP and you complain?

Idiot.

Laptops come with recovery disks.

Sure they do. That's why out of the 4 laptops my family has owned, not one of them has come with recovery disks.I think the 2 dells came with recovery partitions and my old fujitsu laptop had a utility to make the recovery floppies. 30 floppies to backup windows 95. :roll:

ok it seems like I was wrong. I apologize. I reformatted while i was away at college but I'm at my parents home for the week and I just went into the attic and for some reason my dad saved the box that my laptop came in. I opened it up and discovered there were actually recovery discs. not as good as an actual xp cd but it's better than nothing. I'll just have to uninstall all the extra crap that came on the computer. BTW, does anyone know if I have to activate windows if I use the recovery cds?

Yes - if you've deleted the recovery partition. However just call up Microsoft they're usually pretty helpful about activating it on the same computer.

I've activated windows something like 30 - 40 times. I reformat like crazy, and there was a period when my Deathstar would fail every 2 weeks - month. Even now, I've had RAM and HD failures screw up my windows installation. MS is VERY understanding. You tell them you swapped hardware or you reformatted, they will let you activate any day.

Seriously. I can understand if people are afraid at reactivating and talking to MS, but when you are on AT, I expect better.

 

[cleanerupper]

arrrr matey.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: cleanerupper
arrrr matey.

o rly?

 

[McGyver]

u can bypass the validation process by stopping the WMA script from running in the first place. just a hint.

 

[AmdEmAll]

WinDizUpdate FTW

 

[Shawn]

fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck!!! the recovery cd is no good. must have gotten fubar from sitting in the attic for so long. norton ghost keeps giving me an error once it reaches around 25%. now i've got no OS on my laptop at all. :|:|:|:|:|:|:|

 

[cleanerupper]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: cleanerupper
arrrr matey.

o rly?

rly

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Shawn
fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck!!! the recovery cd is no good. must have gotten fubar from sitting in the attic for so long. norton ghost keeps giving me an error once it reaches around 25%. now i've got no OS on my laptop at all. :|:|:|:|:|:|:|

I hope you don't mind if I point and laugh at you.

 

[shoRunner]

double post

 

[shoRunner]

Originally posted by: Shawn
had to reinstall windows on my laptop but since it didn't come with any type of install cds i had to use an xp cd i got online. as soon as I ran windows update I started getting all these nag screens and popups, like I was infected with malware.

I was able to delete the bullsh|t that windows update installed but microsoft has taken this too far. the software acted in everyway like a virus. as soon as i'd end the task it'd restart by itself. it even started itself in safe mode. :|

I know if I call microsoft they won't help me out at all even though I have a nice reflective sticker on the bottom of my laptop which says "GENUINE MICROSOFT" and has a legit product key. I'll probably have to buy a new cd from them. :roll:

cliffs:
laptop didn't come with an xp cd.
had to reinstall windows
downloaded an xp cd.
got pwned with malware which installed itself from the windows update site.
now i probably have to pay M$ so they'll send me an oem windows xp cd so I can use my legit key.

shoulda just downloaded an oem cd...its not that hard.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Shawn
fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck!!! the recovery cd is no good. must have gotten fubar from sitting in the attic for so long. norton ghost keeps giving me an error once it reaches around 25%. now i've got no OS on my laptop at all. :|:|:|:|:|:|:|

I hope you don't mind if I point and laugh at you.

argh. I'm going to try copying the cd onto a blank cd-r with my dad's computer and see if i can get it to work.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Shawn
fucccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck!!! the recovery cd is no good. must have gotten fubar from sitting in the attic for so long. norton ghost keeps giving me an error once it reaches around 25%. now i've got no OS on my laptop at all. :|:|:|:|:|:|:|

I hope you don't mind if I point and laugh at you.

argh. I'm going to try copying the cd onto a blank cd-r with my dad's computer and see if i can get it to work.

Just get that 6-in-1 WinXP CD image like everyone else, install WinXP Pro (or Home) OEM version, type in the serial number on the computer, done.

Don't even touch that recovery crap.